Jeff Dauler

Maybe you've heard his voice on the radio during your morning drive to work. Or maybe you've seen his face on the BravesVision Screen at Turner Field. But odds are you know Jeff Dauler. Even if you don't know you know him.

Dauler is seemingly everywhere these days. In the mornings he's just Jeff, co-host and executive producer of Q100's The Bert Show.

After he gets off the air, he's host of in-game entertainment for the Atlanta Braves, roaming the stands asking trivia questions and giving away prizes between innings.

“It’s almost unreal that both of my jobs allow me to impact so many people in Atlanta,” Dauler says. “I get to talk to hundreds of thousands over the air, and up to 50,000 at a time at Braves games. How many people can say that?”

Recently Dauler tackled a different kind of project. He is a partner in a group that is opening five new Flying Biscuit restaurants in the Atlanta metro area. The first location opened in May at Northside Parkway and West Paces Ferry in Buckhead. The next location opens this Fall in Terminus, and Peachtree and Piedmont.

Dauler's path from radio station employee to restaurant owner has had more than a few stops along the way. He attended Syracuse University and worked at the college radio station. After college, he took a job at a radio station in Boston. Before he landed in Atlanta in January 2001, he worked on-air and off at radio stations in Philadelphia, New York and Tucson.

Dauler sees his involvement in the Flying Biscuit Café, a popular brunch spot known for its tasty biscuits and friendly atmosphere, as a way of firmly establishing his place in Atlanta. He and his wife Jessica, who runs a company that designs custom handbags and appears on The Bert Show every Friday to offer shopping advice, love their home in Sandy Springs. And they both love the Flying Biscuit.

"The Flying Biscuit is Atlanta," Dauler says. "Anybody who lives here knows what it is. When friends come into town, you take them to the Flying Biscuit."

Of course, Dauler had some anxiety about the financial part of the investment. Until recently his only experience with the restaurant industry was as a frequent customer. But he says there were signs.

"The day after I was approached and asked be a Flying Biscuit partner I was in the studio and I looked at the first prize we had to give away and it was a $100 gift certificate to the Flying Biscuit," Dauler says. "So I called my wife and said, is this a sign?”

She said, 'Absolutely.'"

So far, all the signs have pointed Dauler to Atlanta, a place he’s happy to call home. Now, he sees a sign that reads, “Open for Business” – expect to see one hanging in the window of a Flying Biscuit near you.