The Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce Power in Partnership Breakfast on September 5 will feature speaker Dan Fachner, the Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of J&J Snack Foods Corp., parent company for locally produced Dippin' Dots and the Doc Popcorn brands. Whitlow, Roberts, Houston and Straub is the sponsor.

The program will also feature the results of the 2024 Annual Membership and Total Resource Campaign and Leadership Paducah Class #38 will be introduced.

The breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m. at the Paducah-McCracken County Convention Center. Pre-registration is required by Tuesday, Sept. 3 at noon at paducahchamber.org or by calling 270-443-1746. Power Card holders do not have to pre-register. The cost is $25.

Dan Fachner is the Chairman of the Board of J&J Snack Foods Corp., a leading snack food company providing innovative branded snack foods and beverages to foodservice and retail channels. In 2022, J&J Snack Foods purchased the Dippin' Dots and Doc Popcorn brands.

Fachner started his career at the ICEE company and rose rapidly through the ranks to the position of President and CEO, a role he held for 25 years. During this time, he took ICEE from a regional business to a nationally, known brand, distributed broadly across a wide-ranging customer base across the U.S.

As parent company of the ICEE brand, J&J Snack Foods appointed Fachner as President of the company in 2020 and then subsequently, CEO and Chairman of the Board.

In this role, Fachner has taken his broad command of strategic selling, operations, finance, and marketing and applied it to J&J’s larger platform of brands including SuperPretzel, ICEE, Luigi’s, and the recently acquired Dippin’ Dots brand.