SPECIAL AWARD: Best Managers
Private company formed in 2000
Restaurant
14 D-FW locations with 752 employees
This casual restaurant company makes its managers take a three-day weekend once a month during the summer. Softball tournaments, spa days, Texas Rangers outings, bowling matches, group art outings and daily and weekly contests are some of the ways the company reinvigorates itself.
Special sauce: "We don’t want anybody working 50 to 55 hours,” says CEO Brent Tipps. “It’s something cool that nobody else does. We’re trying to make work fun so they like it.”
Employees say: “I am able to throw ideas in the air while receiving input back. Managers trust my judgment, and that makes me feel like I am doing my job well.”
“The company takes a bunch of us that work in the kitchen to a soccer game every year that Mexico plays. It is so much fun to feel appreciated.”
