Welcome to Park & Main

 Jerome has crafted a varied and broad career as a general Business Consultant and Hospitality Industry Owner/Operator with 30 years of corporate level experience. 

His restaurant experience includes the creation of the Fat Tuesday concept under a license agreement with New Orleans Original Daiquiris. He went on to own and operate 10 Fat Tuesday units nationwide with annual sales rising to $12,000,000. At the height of this expansion, Mr. Stuart managed 13 direct reports and 300 employees’ system-wide.

As a Business Consultant, he specialized in start-up projects which he guided from conceptualization to on-going operations, as well as developing turnaround strategies for existing businesses. His clients include businesses in the banking, temporary housing, convenience store, security, alternative energy, and energy conservation industries. 

His business strengths and specialties include:

· Strategic Planning, Competitive Analysis, Sales/Marketing Strategies and Business Development

· Start-up: Oversight of business launch from concept/business conceptualization stage to launch. Pre-launch duties included budgeting, fundraising, architectural design and construction oversight, hiring and training

· Operations: Facilitates management of systems and personnel involved in daily operations including Human Resources, Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations and Administration.

Mr. Stuart will be responsible for the corporate oversight associated with the expansion and the day-to-day management of all FTP company owned units. He will provide the leadership required to meet the stated goals for expansion and financial well-being of the company. Working in conjunction with the Corporate Executive Team and the Managing Partners in the field, he will establish the goals and objectives, and the dissemination of duties required for continued growth and success.

Mr. Stuart believes in the philosophy of ‘Triple Bottom Line Success,’ which is focused on shareholder profits, social responsibility and sustainable work practices. 

Jerome was born in Gulfport, MS, raised in Hammond, LA and graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Marketing. He is the proud of father of two children, Wes (29) a Sequential Artist in Denver and Katy (25) a Mass Communication graduate from LSU, currently working in Dallas.

Although he has never caught a fish as big as Jerome's, Mark has over 25 years of experience as a C-Suite Executive and Producer with an entrepreneurial passion for the convergence of entertainment, media and technology innovation.  He has been recognized by industry peers by with an Emmy Award, Addy Award, Peabody Award, San Diego International Film Festival Artistic Director's Award, Adweek’s Event Marketing Award and is an Global Ambassador to the United Nations University for Peace.  

As a talent manager, producer and presenter, Mark has had the privilege to work with an array of diverse artists such as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, REM, Santana, Ringo Starr, Stephen Stills, David Foster, Faith Hill, Mary J. Blige, Will.i.am, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston, Earth Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Bublé, Martina McBride, Josh Groban, Celine Dion, Blake Shelton, Katharine McPhee, Chris Botti, Peter Cetera, Brian McKnight, Barbra Streisand, Boz Scaggs, Michael Bolton, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmunds, Seal, Kenny Loggins, Ne-Yo, Sarah Brightman, Lang Lang, Robert Redford and others.

As Founder and CEO of PRIMEDIA Communications, Mark led marketing, media and licensing strategies for NASCAR, NFL PLAYERS INC, House of Blues, Montreux Jazz Festival, U.S. Olympic Track & Field, 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, City of Atlanta, City of New Orleans, NBC Television, Twentieth Television, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Radio City Music Hall and others.

As a founding member of the House of Blues, he created a partnership with CBS Radio to broadcast the House of Blues Radio Hour hosted by Dan Ackroyd, and a partnership with Turner Broadcasting to broadcast the Friday Night from the House of Blues concert series. Johnson was instrumental in bringing the House of Blues to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, featuring performances by The Blues Brothers, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Mavericks, Little Richard, Dr. John, James Cotton, Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Eddie Floyd, Tommy "Pipes" McDonald, and Paul Shaffer.

Mark was the Founder and Producer of the Montreux Atlanta International Music Festival featuring performances by Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sarah Vaughn, Dr. John, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Jarreau, Chick Corea, Nina Simone, Wynton Marsalis, Albert King, The Crusaders, Johnny Griffin, Stan Getz, Paul Winter, Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Neville Brothers, Wayne Shorter, Larry Carlton, John Mayall, Buddy Guy, and many more.

Tony Harrison, born into a military family in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, has lived all over the US and abroad. Tony and his wife, Kelly, have been married for 31 years, and have a daughter (Morgan/26) and son (Tony/24) and have resided in Canton, GA for 22 years.

Tony has over forty years of civic and community service, and continues to serve his community today. Tony received his Bachelor of Science degree in Office Administration & Management from Florida A&M University, and has attended several executive training courses including two at Harvard University. 

In 1986, Tony began his career in sales management at Procter & Gamble. After almost 20 years with P&G in sales and operations, he followed his entrepreneurial calling to become President and CEO of Tohar Industries, Inc. (2004 – 2007), then President and CEO of Bonus Building Care (2007 – 2013). After selling Bonus Building Care in 2013, Tony provided consulting services to others eager to become entrepreneurs. In 2014, Tony became one of the first franchisees of Cousins Maine Lobster, after seeing it on ABC’sShark Tank. He launched his first food truck in 2015 and was voted the #1 food truck in Atlanta 5 years in a row (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019), Tony also opened 2 new Cousins Maine Lobster restaurants one in Lenox Square Mall and other in the new Marietta Square Market Food Hall. He also owns Baltimore Crab Cake Company Food Truck and has other entrepreneurial concepts in development.

Tony currently serves as the President of the Food Truck Association of Georgia. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Cherokee County (Malon D. Mimms) Boys & Girls Club (President of the Board of Directors 2011 – 2014), Board Member, Cherokee County Education Foundation and Board Member of Ride to The Olympics Foundation. He is a past Advisory Board Member for Sinergy Elastomers Inc, Past Board President, Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Davidson, NC, CEO Myrtle Beach Winter Golf Invitational (the largest African American golf tournament in the nation), Past President, United States African American Golf Association. Tony has been a Youth Sports Coach, volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, MUST Ministries, and several other charitable organizations 

Tony’s Favorite Quote: “A negative mind will never give you a positive life”

 Growing up in the midwest, I had a "normal" upbringing - public school, state college, some travel. But then something happened. In architecture school, a passion was ignited for restaurants. I loved to travel to New York, Chicago, San Francisco. I learned about good wine, good service, good food. I learned how to cook. I worked in restaurants, leaving my design job at 5:30, to be on the floor waiting tables at 6, then leaving the restaurant at midnight, only do it all over again at 6 am the next day. I developed the heart of an operator, with a passion for function yet never forgetting that "cool" design is part of the equation that weds your brand to your customers.

If you had told me in 1980 that I'd be at the start of a life-long love affair designing and building almost 1000 restaurant locations, I'd never have believed you. I get the people, products and procedures that make for successful operations. Yet I know how to integrate that elusive "hipness" factor into the mix. To put some real soul into the experience, to rise above the competition and make it "cool".

I understand brand. Your Brand. What it is, what it could become, or better yet - what it should become. I am a rare bird. I do really cool restaurants that owners and operators love. Love because they work, and because they make money. I've run the gamut from multi-unit QSR, fast casual and casual dining for national chains, to award-winning local one-offs. I understand roll-outs, remodels, construction, real estate, budgets and timelines.

I love the restaurant business. If you need design, branding, or conceptual consulting on your concept, please give me a call. If you're a CDO for a regional or national multi-unit concept and are rolling out new locations or doing a rebranding effort I can help. One off local restaurants, chef driven concepts, startups or a rebrand of hundreds of locations - I'd love to join the discussion...