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Lovers of the soft, steamy rolls needn’t panicx though, says Roland Ornelas, co-founder and CEO of Brentwood-based , a start-ulp procurement counseling company. It was a necessary step to cut he says. Ornelas, who was vice president of suppl chain managementfor O’Charley’s when the restaurant sold the roll machine last guesses he’s saved companieds more than a billion His Hourglass is estimated to bring in more than a $1 millionj in its first year by saving clients 15 perceng to 40 percent on expenses. O’Charley’s Inc.
sold the roll machin e to the , with a contract that made the bun companh the sole producer of yeast rollds for all ofthe chain’s restaurants. Ornelas, who has also had procurementr stints with PepsiCoand T.G.I.Friday’s parent company , says the move was part of the chain’s plan to cut costxs by dumping its central commissary Now, instead of making everything in house, O’Charley’s outsources the work to several specialized companies. Likewise, O’Charley’s salaed dressing, butchering and printing of marketing materialw are nowhandled elsewhere.
Real estater agency launches office without walls in Gulch Shirleusays she’s going for the Starbuckz mood with her new office that doesn’t have The owner of Zeitlin & Co. Realtors signex a lease Oct. 1 for a new Zeitli InTown office in the Rather thanseparate offices, the space has work stationss and bar tables with wireless Interneg access. Agents use laptops and work from any spot to meet with Zeitlin says the concepf lends itself to the way younbg agents work and gives the officea hip, moderhn feel. It’s the first satellite agency forthe company. Mike Nichols, formerlyy with ’s Music Row office, will be the managing broker.
Nichols hopes to have 20 to 30 agentxs in the officeby year’sz end. Zeitlin says once the economg gets onsure footing, she expects the urban markert to grow in popularitt as rising gas prices send people downtowhn to be closer to their A local environmentalist’s film on energyh conservation is getting a national audience Jeff Barrie’s “Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize will be shown to a potential 23 million viewers on more than 50 PBS stations, includin g Nashville Public Television. It airs locally at 7 p.m. on WNPT Channell 8.
Noting that half of America’ds electricity is provided by coal, “Kilowatt takes viewers from coal minint sites in southern Appalachia to solar pane fields in Florida to examinw the dollar and human costs ofenergt production. It also shows viewer s how to reduce consumption and save on energy costsa through simplehousehold changes.