On the June 9th edition of PlayMakers Talk Show, our guests were Jack Long  – President & CEO of Cookies by Design and Roger Dalton –  Founder & President of the Dalton Gang Inc./Subway Regional Office

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Jack Long, President & CEO – Cookies by Design

Jack Long is President & CEO of Cookies by Design, which provide customers with freshly baked, hand-decorated and personalized cookie gifts, averaging around $50 per cookie bouquet or basket. The company has 100 locations across the country, including four corporate shops and 96 franchises, which include six shops in the DFW area.  They have just signed agreements to go International in South America, Mexico and Canada.

Cookies by Design also has two corporately owned giving Centers in Dallas and Los Angeles that ship products than cannot be hand delivered.

Jack Long came to the United States from Great Britain in 2005 after having started a communications company that was later purchased by MCI.  He bought a Cookies by Design franchise in Fort Myers, Florida and became CEO and President in 2011 directing 60 people while continuing to commute most weeks between Florida and Dallas.

Phone: 1-855-Cookies

CookiesByDesign.com

Roger L. Dalton, Founder/President – the Dalton Gang Inc./Subway Regional Office

Roger L. Dalton is the Founder/President of the Dalton Gang Inc., a company he founded 28 years ago that exclusively acts as the Development Agent/Regional Office for Subway Sandwiches in the Dallas, East Texas and N.W. Louisiana areas.

The number of stores in his area has grown from his first Subway Restaurant in Longview, Texas opened in 1986 to 432 Subway Restaurants today. For the last 10 years Roger has served on Subway’s National Strategic Planning Committee and the System Advisory Council.

Prior to the Dalton Gang Inc., Roger spent 11 years with Fleetwood Enterprises, a motor home, travel trailer and mobile home company, as a Purchasing/Materials Manager with assignments in California, Pennsylvania, Ottawa, Canada and Longview, Texas. He has had the honor to Chair numerous church committees and currently serves as a board member with Bridge Builders Intl. a faith based organization working with the Baltic country of Latvia.

Roger is one of the founders and serves on the board of the D.A. Opportunity Fund, a real estate investment fund begun 4 years ago with 40 fellow Development Agents from around the U.S. Roger has three adult children with his wife Sue, twelve grandchildren and ‘one on the way’. The Dalton Gang Inc. is based in Richardson, Texas and the Dalton’s reside in Parker, Texas.

Phone: (972) 644-3986

DaltonGangInc.com

Jack Long, Host Steve A Klein, Roger Dalton

On the June 2 edition of PlayMakers Talk Show, our guests were Randy Gier  – CEO of Principal of Pizza Inn Holding and Suzanne Ricketts –  Principal of E Heating & Air Conditioning

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Randy Gier, CEO – Pizza Inn Holdings

Randy Gier was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Pizza Inn Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZI) in November 2012.

Pizza Inn Holdings, Inc. represents two concepts: legendary brand Pizza Inn and revolutionary Pie Five Pizza Co.

Pie Five Pizza Co. launched in 2011 and is a fast casual pizza concept specializing in handcrafted individual pizzas ready in five minutes.

Since Randy joined Pizza Inn Holdings, Inc., Pie Five has grown to nine corporate-owned locations throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and has awarded four multi-unit franchise development agreements with rights to open and operate up to 38 locations across Utah, North Carolina, Florida and Missouri. The first franchise location opened last month near Salt Lake City, Utah.

Randy has also served as the Founder and Chief Eating Officer of Savvy Fare Restaurant Group, a privately-held company focused on the creation, incubation and expansion of new restaurant concepts. He also has executive experience at PepsiCo, Yum! Restaurants, and Cadbury-Schweppes (now Dr. Pepper Snapple Group), Pizza Hut, KFC and Yum! International.

       PieFivePizza.com                        PizzaInn.com   

Suzanne Ricketts, Principal – E Heating and Air Conditioning

Suzanne Rickets opened E Heating & Air Conditioning in Dallas with 10 employees this past January.   E Heating & Air Conditioning is a residential HVAC company serving the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex.

After funding the business though a round of investment capital, she hired a cohesive team of solid expertise that had worked together in the industry to hit the ground running. The company installs new systems and repairs existing ones.

Suzanne spent 30 years at Electronic Data Systems as an IT professional with experience in the full spectrum of software development phases using software development life cycle methodology.

Finance was an interest since her college days, so in April 2010 Suzanne began Interface Financial Group providing short term financing for business-to-business (B2B) companies.

E Heating and Air Conditioning has also partnered with Children’s Medical Center – for every system they sell, E Heating and Air Conditioning will donate $100 to Children’s with a goal to sell 500 systems this year for a total of $50,000.  For every service trip, they will donate $10 to Children’s; anticipating doing 1,000 service calls this year, for an additional $10,000.  In addition, they are donating an HEPA Bypass Filtration system to a Children’s patient with breathing problems so one room in the family home has superior air quality for them.

Phone: (214) 702-5181/(817) 840-3515

TheBigGreenE.com

Experienced employees, Efficient products, Economy pricing. EVERYDAY!

Randy Gier, Suzanne Rickets & Host Steve A Klein