November 2016 NICA News
Featuring Member’s Voice with Frank Boeck, D & F Enterprises, Daniel McLean, Almond Garten, Carmel Dyer-Pittroff, The Original Australian Battered Potatoes, Todd Lavigne, Awesome Apple Crisp, and Theresa Johnson, All American Restaurant & Grill, Thoughts from a CCE withLarry McConnell, CCE, McConnell Concessions, Concessionaire Spotlight with Tom Frazee, Frazee's Concessions, President's Message with Paulette Keene, Director's Voice with Joe Potillo, Jr., Card's Corner with Michelle Card, Executive Director, and much more!
Featuring Member’s Voice with Frank Boeck, D & F Enterprises, Daniel McLean, Almond Garten, Carmel Dyer-Pittroff, The Original Australian Battered Potatoes,
Todd Lavigne, Awesome Apple Crisp, and Theresa Johnson, All American Restaurant & Grill, Thoughts from a CCE withLarry McConnell, CCE, McConnell Concessions, Concessionaire Spotlight with Tom Frazee, Frazee's Concessions, President's Message with Paulette Keene, Director's Voice with Joe Potillo, Jr., Card's Corner with Michelle Card, Executive Director, and much more!
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Concessionaire Spotlight<br />
Tom Frazee<br />
Frazee’s Concessions<br />
Comstock Park, MI - Tom Frazee operates under<br />
the name Frazee’s Concessions and specializes<br />
in many food items including French Fries, Corn<br />
Dogs, Elephant Ears, and Lemonade. We had a<br />
chance to ask him a few questions about his<br />
experience as a Concessionaire and a <strong>NICA</strong><br />
Member and his responses are below.<br />
<strong>NICA</strong> <strong>News</strong>: Thank you for being able to speak to<br />
us! How long have you been a Concessionaire and<br />
member of <strong>NICA</strong>?<br />
TF : I’ve been a Concessionaire since a very young<br />
age and a <strong>NICA</strong> Member on and off for the last<br />
twenty years.<br />
NN: How and why did you get in to the concession<br />
business?<br />
TF : Frazee’s Concessions and Equipment is a 3rd<br />
generation family business that started prior to<br />
1947. I began helping my family at a very young<br />
age and then later wanted to continue on with the<br />
family business after graduating from Southern<br />
Utah University. Working, traveling, and learning<br />
about the business before the age of 10 ingrained<br />
in me a strong work ethic and comprehensive<br />
working knowledge of how to run a Concession<br />
business.<br />
NN: What do you like most about being a<br />
Concessionaire?<br />
TF : I enjoy looking forward to waking up each new<br />
day to the business and its new challenges. The<br />
thing that I like best about being a Concessionaire<br />
is the great people and connections that are made<br />
at each event and season.<br />
NN: What are your most popular products?<br />
TF : Frazee’s French Fries are my best selling food<br />
item and I enjoy reconnecting with patrons who<br />
come out to venues specifically to buy them each<br />
year. To know that they are coming out regularly<br />
for your product is proof that you are doing<br />
Tom Frazee, Frazee’s Concessions<br />
something right.<br />
NN: How has the business changed since you first<br />
started out? What’s something you wish would<br />
change?<br />
TF : The biggest change over the years in the<br />
Concession business was how it started out more<br />
family orientated and now finds a more corporate<br />
influence, which takes away from the family flavor.<br />
NN: What’s been the highlight of your career?<br />
TF : The highlight of my career is meeting<br />
the various unique and interesting patrons,<br />
Concessionaires and associates.<br />
NN: What’s been the most influential to your<br />
personal or business success in the past five<br />
years?<br />
TF : One of the most influential parts of my<br />
business success in the last five years was<br />
the rebuilding and refining of knowledge of<br />
my years of experience prior to 2011, and then<br />
brainstorming those ideas and concepts with Deb,<br />
my business associate, to invent a newer and<br />
more successful Frazee’s Concessions.<br />
NN: What’s something you like to do in your free<br />
time?<br />
TF : I am learning how to sail with Deb; one item<br />
on the bucket list this year is to explore the Outer<br />
Banks with our sail boat.<br />
18 <strong>November</strong> <strong>2016</strong> <strong>NICA</strong> <strong>News</strong>
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