Boddie-Noell honors top managers

Boddie-Noell Enterprises Inc. has presented its annual Carleton Noell Achievers awards to 10 Hardee’s restaurant general managers and two district managers. The Carleton Noell award is the top operational award given by Boddie-Noell, the nation’s largest franchise operator.

The recognition and celebration of the annual winners was held at the company’s Rose Hill Conference center near Nashville. Each recipient received cash awards, plaques and gifts to reward their restaurant management teams and crews for their 2008 performance.

“This year’s Carleton Noell winners are unique and wonderful individuals,” said Terry Lewis, vice president of operations for Boddie-Noell’s Hardee’s division. “Not only are they excellent operations leaders, but they also serve as a personnel manager, counselor, coach, and teacher for the crews they work with. They all embody the values that Boddie-Noell Enterprises was founded on.”

The award-winning individuals and restaurants represent the best among the 341 Hardee’s restaurants operated by the company across four states. The winners were selected on an established set of objectives for operational excellence. The annual award is named for the late W. Carleton Noell, one of the founders of Boddie-Noell Enterprises, Inc. which opened its first Hardee’s in 1962.

Senior district manager Dwight Searson of Bamberg, S.C. and district manager Ruth Bazile of Richmond, Va. each won the Carleton Noell award based on an established set of objectives for operational excellence among district supervisory leadership.

The restaurant general manager “achievers” include Lorraine Rivera with the Hardee’s at 905 North Smithfield Road in Knightdale; Dorothy Marshall with the Hardee’s at 5601 Castle Hayne Road in Castle Hayne; Tashuia Williams with the Hardee’s at 4607 South Alston Avenue in Durham; Brian Ball with the Hardee’s at 900 East Fincastle Street in Tazewell, Va.; Cynthia Jackson with the Hardee’s at 916 Virginia Avenue in Clarksville, Va.; Ethel Brown with the Hardee’s at 200 East Virginia Street in Crewe, Va.; Jackie Scott with the Hardee’s at 2301 Pruden Boulevard in Suffolk, Va.; Kirsty Dessenberg with the Hardee’s at 1494 General Booth Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Va.; Brenda Dukes with the Hardee’s at 10262 Dunbarton Boulevard in Barnwell, S.C., and Virginia Spellman with the Hardee’s at 2999 Main Highway in Bamberg, S.C.