Renae has made her rounds around most of the company throughout her Sticky career (wherever we needed her the most!) She is one of the quietest people you will ever meet, but put her in a restaurant and she is one of, if not the strongest leaders we have. She is now in Tennessee running our Hamilton Place restaurant. Thanks, Renae, for fighting to keep the culture alive and running a fantastic restaurant. She would be the perfect employee, if only she wasn’t a Gamecock fan.

Adam has been with Sticky Fingers since 1998, left for a little while, but has rejoined our family as the Operating Partner of our Summerville restaurant.  Most of you know Adam pretty well, so we tried to dig up some unknown facts about him.  When Adam was 10, he jumped on the bandwagon and became a Tarheel fan (about the same time a guy named Jordan surfaced).  A well known source does tell us he is still in the closet as far as his love for poetry, but that love of poetry had to be what finally landed his old butt a future wife. Slated to get married in June of 2010, we are sure it isn’t his charming good looks or quiet personality that attracted the love of his life, Lily. Maybe you could convince him to share some of his own work over his favorite drinks, Bud Light (better be in the bottle) or Jager.  Another little known fact about Adam, he once fell 110 feet off a cliff, hopefully not on his head, but that would explain the baldness.
 

 

Chaunce is from Indiana and he joined our family in 2009 as our Operating Partner of our Macon, Georgia location. Normally, I would call him a bandwagon jumper since he is a self-proclaimed Florida Gators fan, but considering he is also an Indiana Hoosiers basketball fan (and their 2008-09 record was 6-25) I won’t do that. Chaunce was in the Army for a few years, but that doesn’t compare to the 5 weeks he spent training with Renae Ahring (our Hamilton Place OP) where she whipped him into shape Sticky Style and forced him to drink the worst beer in the world PBR. Hopefully he can bring some of his charming good looks and cut-up personality to our Macon restaurant where anything short of perfection will be absolutely unacceptable to me.

Jason joined our family in 2009 to become our Operating Partner in Augusta. It is sad to say, that Jason too is a fan of the Yankees (I really need to talk to our HR department about our hiring practices). He has a tattoo of the Yankees logo on his right arm, and on the other is a tattoo of the Red Sox logo. I guess that switch hitting type of behavior is the norm for him since he used to work for another BBQ restaurant too. Jason is an avid golfer, and actually made it in to Augusta National before getting kicked out for dying all of the jackets blue and red. At least his sons Sean and Kyle can choose only one team to root for. People of Augusta watch out, next thing you know Jason will be painting UGA and UT stuff on all of the local water towers.

I started pulling my thoughts together in order to write Mike's bio, and man all I could come up with is that this guy seems really, really old. He likes Alfred Hitchcock movies, Joe Paterno, vinyl albums (mostly jazz) and likes to read... A LOT. I don't know anyone younger than me that likes all of that stuff. He, like so many of our family members, is a Yankees (the team) lovin bandwagon jumper. I guess that makes him a fan of performance enhancing drugs, and arrogant 3rd baseman. Mike left a famous rich guy’s burger concept to join our family and is now the Operating Partner of our River City restaurant in Jacksonville.

Started with Sticky's back in 2006. She is very competitive, and has been on the road ever since trying to beat out Renae as the road warrior. When Julie filled out her application and answered the question what career/job/school plans do you have in the future? She responded, "Plans? What are plans?"

I would put Wes up against anyone you know for the first six beers. I have never seen anyone that can guzzle like he can. After the first six though, he cuddles up under a warm blanket like a little girl and gets all fuzzy inside. Ladies, Wes is single and looking for love in the right places. So if you like what you see, you can go by our Main Street restaurant in Greenville where he is our Operating Partner and pay a visit to Wes Payne on South Main. I promise he will drink you under the table (for the first six), and make you laugh your butt off the whole time. If you do stop in, ask him to tell you the Sticky story backwards. You will fall off of your stool laughing. But don’t worry; he will leave you laying there.

According to Austin, he has been in charge from his first day in Myrtle Beach. He is glad that finally his talents have been recognized. When he is not working, a perfect day for Austin would be laying at the beach in a "wife beater." He also has been known to take long walks on the beach early in the morning with his dog, and look at the "OLD people” before his daily bubble bath (he has to exfoliate you know). I think he likes to hit on all the ladies, which probably come from his lack of self-confidence because he is constantly telling people what he can't do. He thinks becoming an OP won't scare him too much.

Karen Miller is a walking freak show. She got us all thrown out of our hotel during our Greenville restaurant opening (legal does not let me give details.) So, it is remarkable that she now runs any business, much less a restaurant. She started off as a server, and then became a bartender for us in Columbia. We had no choice but to promote her after she kept getting drunk with our guests. So after a brief manager stint in Greenville, she became the Operating Partner of our Savannah restaurant. Her two kids, Madison and Arthur, have finally been able to tame her…

Jennifer Moore is the best thing to happen to Charleston since the Civil War, wait, scratch that, the South didn’t win. Anyway, she started as a server in Greenville when it opened in 2004, and quickly proved that she was ready for her own Sticky Fingers. That opportunity came in 2005, when she has took the reigns at one of our busiest restaurants, and was able to “WOW” employees, guests, and her bosses so much, that when the opportunity came to move back home to Greenville, she was our first choice. Her only questionable decisions so far seem to be her college football loyalty (Clemson) and her choice in men. If you ever meet her husband Dan, you will understand what I mean. Hopefully, her son Cooper turns out more like her….

Pat has headed back to his old stomping grounds as the OP in Downtown Charleston. He has been showing people the ropes at Sticky Fingers since 1999. Pat became a huge Florida Gators fan when they started winning all of those championships (by cheating I may add) which is only exceeded by his love for the Mets. He actually named his daughter, Addison Shae after the Met's stadium and the street it's located on. Nice! In addition to Addison, Pat is also a proud Dad to Keagan Michelle and is married to a very understanding woman, Carrie. Pat is also and "unofficial" member of the Polar Bear team. He loves jumping into the water to go swimming, but tends to forget to wear clothes. You have to ask him about that sometime over a little Grand Marnier or a tall glass of Bud Light. He actually convinced a bartender in Vegas to feed him Grand Ma straight out of the gun! If you think you have a crazy friend, you obviously don’t know Pat …Carrie, you are a saint!

Stan could quite possibly be the oldest person in the world. We have no idea though, because he won’t tell us his birthday. He could also quite possibly be the hardest working man on earth. This dude is classic Sticky Fingers. He left a promising career in professional baseball to come work with us. He started washing dishes, and now runs all of our coastal restaurants and demands nothing but the best. Absolute focus on the guest and our employees is what you will get from Stan. The man can seriously work like 72 hours straight without stopping to go to the bathroom. He loves a cold Curs Light (the Coors Light for you Yankees), hanging with his kids, and his wife Lisa. We wouldn’t be where we are today, without Stan.

Bill could quite possibly be the bravest man on earth. He decided to come on board and tackle our Jacksonville market, which has proven difficult for a lot of folks over the years. He has now also picked up our Georgia market, and is making huge strides in leading the Florida and Georgia markets to the top of the pack. What may seem difficult for most people is a piece of cake for Bill. He can golf, ski, cook, and travel at the same time, all while watching the Yankees and drinking a Budweiser. And yes, he too is a bandwagon jumper. He stopped liking the Yankees until they finally won a World Series again this year, and now that he lives in Florida, he bought a Tim Tebow Fathead to put on his wall.

“What can I tell you about Teddy ‘Ever Ready’ Hines? Well…not much. I tried to ask him a little about himself one day but I couldn’t get him to sit still long enough to tell me anything. All I know is this; the guy does not stop moving. He’s a walking…no, running ad for energy drinks. He’s been with us for a little over a year and a half and hasn’t even sat down to take a break yet. He’s always on the go. Always taking the pork to the people. And always has a big smile on his face while he’s doing it. With that kind of porktastic passion and energy, it was a no-brainer to let him run one of our busiest restaurants. Heck, we didn’t really have a choice. He still hasn’t slowed down long enough for us to even tell him he was hired.”

We stole Anna from the Florida Auto Auction where she learned to talk really fast for a really long time. That may or may not be the only reason we promoted her to the Operating Partner of our Atlantic Beach restaurant (we couldn't get a word in edgewise which kept us from saying no) but we can't discuss it with her because she is always busy drinking margaritas with her 4 kids (the furry kind). Anna is heavily involved in the Atlantic Beach community, and has done a phenomenal job putting the "beach feel" back in our only beachside restaurant.

Finally, we hired someone other than a Yankee’s fan. Not that I think being a Red Sox fan constitutes any less of a bandwagon jumper, but hey, it’s a start. James Howard a.k.a. VA, was born an Army brat in Alaska but spent most of his life in Virginia, get it VA? VA came to us in 2008 and is now our OP in Concord, one of the busiest restaurants we have. Since his promotion, VA has made some really great decisions, like replacing the green go-go dancer lights on the building with white ones. The first concert he ever went to was to see his favorite band, Van Halen. Only problem is, that was 20 years ago and to this day, VA can’t seem to get his hair to look like Eddie’s.