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Friends start pimento
cheese business
By Cyndee Perdue Moore
Friendship is at the heart of Satisfied Food Co., whose pimento cheese can be found at local businesses like Stripling’s General Store, Farm 441 and Suncatcher Café.
Brock Toole and Darrell Goodman have been friends most of their lives. They grew up together in Bainbridge and went to college together at Georgia Southern University, where Darrell majored in hotel and restaurant management and Brock studied logistics.
After graduation, Darrell went north to Nashville, where he worked for Houston’s Restaurant. Brock went south to work for the Puerto Rican government.
But Georgia called both men home and they ended up in Oconee County. Brock returned to handle logistics for Wal-Mart Distribution Center, a position he held for nineteen years before becoming the chief operations officer for Oconee County Schools.
Darrell settled into the hospitality industry and developed serious culinary skills in his spare time, trying out recipes on his friends and family. They got together often and dreamed about one day opening a restaurant together.
But that dream eventually changed, and Darrell suggested marketing his secret recipe pimento cheese.
Satisfied Food Co. is run by Oconee County Schools Chief Operations Officer Brock Toole, left, the company’s director of distribution C.J. Smith, center, and Darrell Goodman, right.
s Cyndee Perdue Moore is an Oconee County resident and the executive director of the University of North Georgia Oconee Campus PAGE 42 | OCONEE THE MAGAZINE | FALL 2021
Courtesy Brock Toole