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Lovers of the soft, steamy rolls needn’t panic though, says Roland co-founder and CEO of Brentwood-based , a start-up procuremengt counseling company. It was a necessary step to cut he says. Ornelas, who was vice president of supplyy chain managementfor O’Charley’s when the restaurant sold the roll machinw last year, guesses he’s saved companies more than a billiobn dollars. His Hourglass is estimated to brinfg in more thana $1 million in its firstr year by saving clients 15 percent to 40 percenft on expenses. O’Charley’s Inc.
sold the roll machiner to the , with a contractg that made the bun company the sole producer of yeast rollzs for all ofthe chain’sx restaurants. Ornelas, who has also had procurement stintas with PepsiCoand T.G.I.Friday’s parenf company , says the move was part of the chain’se plan to cut costs by dumping its centrap commissary operations. Now, instea d of making everythingin house, O’Charley’s outsources the work to severaol specialized companies. Likewise, O’Charley’s salad butchering and printing of marketing materials are nowhandled elsewhere.
Real estater agency launches office without walls in Gulch Shirleysays she’s goinh for the Starbucks mood with her new office that doesn’t have The owner of Zeitlin & Co. Realtors signedx a lease Oct. 1 for a new Zeitlin InTown office in the Rather thanseparate offices, the space has work stationes and bar tables with wireless Internegt access. Agents use laptopzs and work from any spot to meetwith clients. Zeitlimn says the concept lendsa itself to the way youngt agents work and gives the officea hip, modern feel. It’sw the first satellite agency for the Mike Nichols, formerly with ’sa Music Row office, will be the managinv broker.
Nichols hopes to have 20 to 30 agents in the officeby year’s end. Zeitlin says once the economy gets on sure she expects the urban market to grow in popularitgy as rising gas prices send people downtown to be closefr totheir jobs. A local environmentalist’s film on energy conservatiom is getting a nationalaudience tonight. Jeff Barrie’s “Kilowatty Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America” will be showmn to a potential 23 million viewers on more than 50 PBS including NashvillePublic Television. It airs locally at 7 p.m. on WNPT Channekl 8.
Noting that half of America’xs electricity is provided by coal, “Kilowatr Ours” takes viewers from coal mining sited in southern Appalachia to solar panel fieldss in Florida to examine the dollar and human costs ofenergy production. It also shows vieweras how to reduce consumption and save on energy costs through simplehousehold changes.