Wingstop Honors Chain-wide Producers with Golden Goose Awards #1 Chicken Wing Chain Salutes Top Brand Partners at 2005 National Convention

Wingstop Honors Chain-wide Producers with Golden Goose Awards
#1 Chicken Wing Chain Salutes Top Brand Partners at 2005 National Convention

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) April 28, 2005

Jim Flynn, Wingstop CEO, announced today the chain’s honorees from its 2005 national convention. Each honoree received a ‘Golden Goose’ representing the chain’s mascot. The goose has long been the chain’s mascot, chosen because geese fly together in unison, should one fall out of order, the others pick up the pace. A symbol of the company’s unity, the goose debuted for the first time in the form of an oscar-type award at this year’s convention.

Rex Heckleman, who has been a part of Wingstop from the very beginning and instrumental in developing the brand and several of its proprietary recipes, received a Golden Goose for the Lifetime Achievement award.

“I’m glad they’ve developed the Golden Goose award,” said Heckleman. “Not only is it something to be proud of and display in your store, but it reminds us all of the team work involved in this business and the fact that we have a golden business here. When we do our jobs right, our stores do lay golden eggs.”

A celebration of a momentous year, Wingstop’s 2005 convention concluded last week. The chain took a look back at 2004, a year in which Wingstop was recognized for their quality product. Wingstop was ranked the no. 1 Chicken Wing Chain by Entrepreneur magazine and also took first place for its “Extra Hot Sauce”, Atomic, at the National Buffalo Wing Festival.

“We are very proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish together with our brand partners,” said Flynn. “We plan to maintain this momentum as we move into new markets across the U.S. this year.”

Nick Nardello of Elmwood Park, Ill. was honored as the ‘Single Unit Operators of the Year’, and Steve Fortunato and Gary Henderson in Augusta, Ga. received the ‘Multi Unit Operators of the Year’ award.

The ‘Top Sales for 2004’ award went to Charles Loflin of San Antonio, Texas. Todd Murrah’s Garland, Texas locations came in second, and Lela Nauls in San Antonio came in third.

Danny Patel in Long Beach, Calif. won ‘Highest % Sales Increase’ and ‘Highest $ Sales Increase’.

Henry Van in Houston, Texas won the Mystery Shopper award, an award in which franchisee stores were secretly shopped multiple times over a six month period. Van received a $ 5,000 vacation package.

Wingstop Ambassador awards went to Deborah Brown, Paul Leonard and Todd Metten. Additionally, Charles Loflin and Todd Murrah became members of the ‘Million Dollar Club’. The Houston Wingslingers were named ‘Advertising Co-op of the Year’ for the second year in a row. ‘Vendor of the Year’ went to Renfro Foods, Inc.

Wingstop has 400 restaurants either open or under development in 25 states and consistently tops industry growth rankings. This July, Wingstop was ranked number four in Restaurants & Institutions’ ‘Top 400 Sales-Growth Leaders’ (the only wing chain in the top ten). Also in July, Wingstop ranked number seven in Restaurant Business’ ‘Top 50 Growth Chains’ (ranked by percentage increase in units) and number three in their list of chains by increase in average unit volume. Troy Aikman, former Dallas Cowboy and Super Bowl MVP, signed on as the chain’s national spokesman in 2003.

For more information on Wingstop, visit http://www.wingstop.com.

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