COI Foodservice

About 90 employees who will lose their jobs when a Jackson County food distribution center closes should receive some government assistance, according to the West Virginia Development Office. Local and state agencies will offer things such as credit counseling, debt management, resume workshops, children's health-care assistance and other job services to displaced employees, it was said. Some grant money for training and continuing education may also be available. Employees learned during a recent meeting with the company president that the center would close. The company is a wholesale distributor for restaurants such as Applebee's and Ryan's restaurants with centers in Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia. Executives at the Nashville-based Commissary Operations Inc. food service expect to terminate all employees soon.