Feeding Your Passion Eric Martin

Izzy's Restaurant
Franklin, TN
Serving: Feel Good Food
Brad & Harland left 5 Star Corporate dining in order to pursue a passion for their family and for Freedom on their own terms. They are serving their local community in their newly established Restaurant! Listen today to hear the areas that they are knocking it out of the park!
CHEF DRIVEN MENU
We are serious about good food and we love it, but we want you to love it too. Together with our talented chef, we are creating dishes that we would want to treat our own families with.
Join Us For Live Music
We love living in Franklin and can't wait to share with you the talented folks we have come to know and love. We regularly host local talent, young and old...and everyone in-between. Open mic night anyone?
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
Bring the kids, bring a date, bring Memaw! We can't wait to treat you to an experience filled with genuine hospitality. After working a few decades in the food industry, we know how to give guests 5-star service.

Siler Chapman
Owner of
King of Fire Pizza
Chef Siler Chapman’s goal is like no other: to offer a unique catering experience for any occasion, making only the very best pizzas he’s perfected from scratch. And perfected he has. He is a 3x World Pizza Champion, founding member of the World Pizza Champions and PerfectingPizza.com. In addition, He is a professional pizza acrobat and champion dough thrower and has appeared on the Food Network, the Today show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Steve Harvey Show, and Good Morning America. 
His sleek mobile wood fire catering company, King of Fire, brings great tasting food across the Carolinas and beyond. It is a family run business which understands the importance of a well run event and great food. 
If anyone is the King of Fire, it’s Siler Chapman.

Siler Chapman
Owner of
King of Fire Pizza
Chef Siler Chapman’s goal is like no other: to offer a unique catering experience for any occasion, making only the very best pizzas he’s perfected from scratch. And perfected he has. He is a 3x World Pizza Champion, founding member of the World Pizza Champions and PerfectingPizza.com. In addition, He is a professional pizza acrobat and champion dough thrower and has appeared on the Food Network, the Today show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Steve Harvey Show, and Good Morning America. 
His sleek mobile wood fire catering company, King of Fire, brings great tasting food across the Carolinas and beyond. It is a family run business which understands the importance of a well run event and great food. 
If anyone is the King of Fire, it’s Siler Chapman.

Anna Dolce
Hospitality Expert
Miami, FL
Anna Dolce is a life and business strategist, hospitality expert, writer and keynote speaker.
Originally from Georgia (Europe), Anna was an entrepreneur at the age of 17 and then by the age of 18 she had won 2 national titles as Miss Georgia and was nominated for the Georgia Business Mind Of The Year award.
Since then, Anna relocated to the United States and entered the hospitality industry, where she led multiple restaurant operations before owning her own.
Anna has spoken from the TEDx stage and is a freelance writer to several publications in the hospitality industry. She speaks at major conferences and industry shows on the topics of service vs hospitality, entrepreneurship, leadership, sales and organizational culture.

John Wilson
Sophie’s Cork & Ale
Lexington, NC
 Chef John Wilson is 31 years old. He has lived in Lexington, NC since he was 9. He started out washing dishes at a local country club in high school when he was 16.
He was always intrigued by what was going on restaurant while he was scrubbing the dishes. Eventually a cook left and he asked if he could step up and learn that role.
He Instantly made friendships in that country club that would eventually help him get to where he is today as a restaurant owner.
He cooked at a couple of country clubs, was promoted to sous chef, eventually landed another sous chef job in Greensboro, NC at the Iron Hen Cafe, then made he made his way to Willow's Bistro where his education flourished under Chef Travis Myers (2018 NC Chef of the Year).
Chef John lives in a very small town, that is trying to be more progressive these days and bring a spark back to the small town. He learned of a Wine bar opening in Lexington, NC and they would be serving food. He got his first Head Chef Job and after three years was offered to buy it from the original owners. Chef John has been the owner since April 2019.
He is also a graduate of Guilford Technical Community College with his associates in culinary arts. He won best chef under 30 in 2018 in the Piedmont Traid (NC).

Jason Collins
I Love Juice Bar
Franklin, TN
Jason Collins grew up in Nashville, TN, a veteran of Desert Storm & spent 15 years in Global product and business development with offices in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Developed the first Snowboard boots for the Olympic snowboarding team. Jason has several product and method patents as well. In 2005 he moved his family back to TN settling in Franklin. Then in 2015 he launched one of the first Juice Bar Franchises.