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Martha Hoover, '80, Honored by Centric Inc.
10/09/2018
Martha Hoover, '80, has received the Excellence in Innovation Award from Centric Inc. She received the honor at the 2018 Indiana Innovation Awards.
Hoover is the founder and president of Patachou Inc. There are 11 restaurants under her Patachou Inc. umbrella, and her Patachou Foundation delivers meals to food insecure children.
This isn't the first honor for Hoover. She was named Restaurant Empire Builder of the Year by the website, Eater, in December 2017. She was nominated in 2017 for the James Beard Foundation Best Restaurateur Award. She was a semifinalist for this honor in 2013, and 2016. And she was inducted into the Junior Achievement of Central Indiana Business Hall of Fame in 2015 in recognition of her work. Hoover also serves on the IU McKinney Board of Visitors.
