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Tom Henry

After graduation from PHS I headed to Atlanta to pursue Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. I squandered my National Merit Scholarship on girls and parties, but muscled my way through by co-opping in Dallas with LTV, and working my way through school waiting tables in restaurants.
With my Industrial Engineering degree in hand, I began managing restaurants until I figured out what to do with my life. I joined Steak and Ale in 1975, and worked in Nashville, Chattanooga (where I met Linda), Mobile, Montgomery, and Birmingham, AL, where my oldest daughter Chelsea was born in 1980.
We spent a couple of years in Denver, then I joined Houston's Restaurants in Houston, where our twins Jessica and Allison were born.We moved to Atlanta to help launch Rio Bravo Cantinas in 1986, and then when we chose to expand to Nashville we moved to our current home. I spent 15 years with Rio, during which time we grew to 74 restaurants, and were bought and sold a couple of times.
I go squeezed out (when someone says "we have chosen to go in a different direction", it is never a good sign), but that was the blessing I was looking for, so I could pursue my passion to help feed families in need. So finally, at age 50, I figured out what to do with my life.
My partner Don Herbert and I chartered Feed America First (www.feedamericafirst.com)in June 2000, with the intent to use our collective business experience to help feed people in need in rural and small-town America.Don passed away quickly after that, but I have continued for the last 17 years and we just moved into our new Murfreesboro, TN facility.
FAF currently operates in TN, AL, MS, and KY. We impact an estimated 35,000 families each month here in the mid-South, and this year we expect to distribute 15,000,000 pounds of food. I expect to continue operating it until at least age 70 (Oct 2019), then figure out what to do next.
My daughters each have two children. Jessica and Bill Conner live in Atlanta with their kids Tommy Cool(4) and Pepper(2). Chelsea and Chris Martin live in Nashville with Azra (6) and Carmen(3), and Allison lives with Lilly(9) and Violet(8) with us in Franklin. None of the kids have strayed very far from the restaurant business, and Allie is becoming a chef of some reputation in the hot Nashville food scene.
Linda and I celebrated our 40th anniversary in July. We have lived a life rich in family and fun, and I am blessed by the work I do each day.

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