JENNINGS — Ajay Patel, owner/operator of Patel McDonald’s and president of Barnam Management, which owns 42 restaurants in Louisiana, South Carolina and Georgia, and his family were recipients of McDonald’s highest honor for a franchisee, the Fred L. Turner Golden Arch Award.
The award recipients include his wife of 34 years and business partner, Bindu, and their three sons, Niel, Ricky and...