JAY HARE / DOTHAN EAGLE Employees at Zack's Restaurant serve lunch to customers on Friday.

Posted on Feb 21, 2020
by Sable Riley
Reporter IIA film crew from the Food Network is coming to Dothan to film at Zack’s Family Restaurant, a local fixture for 14 years.

Owner Dianne Whaley said network executives contacted her Monday to ask if they could feature the down-home, cafeteria-style eatery in an episode about country cooking, but she didn’t quite believe it until she reached out to them again later in the week.

They confirmed with Whaley that a crew would be on site March 1 to see how she and her husband, Zack, cook some of their famous menu items just as their mamas made them.

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In the 2019 Best of the Wiregrass competition, Zack's Family Restaurant was selected as the 'Best Lunch' and 'Best Country Cooking'!  Zack Whaley accepted the awards at a Wiregrass Winners Gala event held at Windmill Station on July 29th. Zack's Family Restaurant wants to give our thanks to those in the Wiregrass who voted for us as well as our great management and staff that makes it all possible!

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• Zack Whaley accepts Best of the Wiregrass - Best Country Cooking Award Zack Whaley accepts Best of the Wiregrass - Best Country Cooking Award
• Zack Whaley accepts Best of the Wiregrass - Best Lunch Award Zack Whaley accepts Best of the Wiregrass - Best Lunch Award
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DANNY TINDELL / DOTHAN EAGLE Zack’s restaurant owner Zackery Whaley poses for a photo at his restaurant in this Dothan Eagle file photo.

Posted on Oct 11, 2016
by Matt Elofson
Crime and courts reporterZack Whaley, known by many as the owner of Zack’s Family Restaurant, was named Tuesday as the Dothan Area Chamber of Commerce’s small business person of the year.

“In a nutshell, I’m just elated we won and it just proves hard working people can win sometimes,” Whaley said. “It’s really been a blessing to us.”

Zack’s is well known for its southern home cooking. Whaley has been in the restaurant business for more than 20 years, opening his first restaurant at what he referred to as the old icehouse in Cottonwood. The building has since been torn down, and has been replaced by a Dollar General store.

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Several days a week, locals drive the 20 or 30 miles one way - depending on where they are coming from — just to eat at a country-style restaurant called Zack in the small Geneva County town of Slocomb. They come because it is food worth driving for.

As of next Monday, the drive for many gets shorter. Zack’s Family Restaurant owner Zack Whaley is opening a second location in north Dothan at 1495 Headland Ave., just inside Ross Clark Circle behind Cowboy’s gas station

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