David Davoudpour is a man on a mission.
A longtime Atlanta restaurateur, with Lone Star Steakhouse, Church’s fried chicken restaurants and others to his credit, Davoudpour is now chairman and CEO of Shoney’s, the Nashville-based restaurant chain he bought in late 2006.
Since then, Davoudpour has worked relentlessly to re-establish the concept that Alex Schoenbaum founded in 1947 on the parking lot at his father’s bowling alley in Charleston, W.Va.
His quest is indicated in white script on a solid-red background on the flip side of his business card, which reads, simply, “glory days.”