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Top 100: Restaurants – Jason's Deli

Jason's Deli is number 47 on our list of the 2014 Fast Casual Top 100 Movers & Shakers: Restaurants.

January 26, 2015

Jason's Deli is number 47 on our list of the 2014 Fast Casual Top 100 Movers & Shakers: Restaurants.

Jason's Deli boasts more than 240 locations across 28 states and strives to pro-vide innovative recipes along with healthy choices. Its website, for example, includes a nutritional calculator along with its "Special Diets Wizard" that allows customers to enter which ingredients they need to avoid due to allergies. The chain was one of the first to ban transfats, MSG and high-fructose corn syrup.

Besides its dedication to good food, the chain also is dedicated to finding and helping good employees. In 2005, its founder and president, Joe Tortorice Jr., created the Leadership Institute for his employees. It offers free classes about money matters, ethics, marriage, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence and the brand's core values. He also started a program called The Fishing School to empower hourly employees to better themselves professionally by be-coming managers and leaders.

In addition, Jason's has a non-profit foundation to help employees in crisis.

"Employees are not simply human capital or resources; they are the future of the company," Tortorice said. "We care for and grow our people."