Held at the beautiful Paramount Center for the Arts in downtown Bristol, Tennessee, the annual Miss Food City Pageant showcases young women from across the region.  Co-sponsored by WXBQ 96.9 FM 24 Carrot Country, the pageant will take place at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, 2015. 

Miss Food City 2016 will be crowned to represent Food City during various company related events, including the Food City 300 and Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.  Miss Food City 2016 will also have the unique opportunity of representing Food City during the Battle at Bristol on September 10, 2016 at Bristol Motor Speedway, at what promises to be the largest attended college football game in history between the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech. 

Miss Food City Pageant tickets will be available at the door the day of the event for an admission fee of $8.00.  Children 5 and under are admitted free.  Proceeds benefit sponsored charities of the Twin Cities Woman’s Club.

“We appreciate each of our pageant contestants and feel they are to be commended for their many contributions within the community,” said Steven C. Smith, Food City president and chief executive officer.  “It has been our extreme pleasure to have Kassie Perkins of Harriman, TN represent Food City during her reign as Miss Food City 2015,” adds Smith.  “She has been an excellent spokesperson for our company.”

Contestants are being sought throughout the region.  The pageant entry fee is $100.00.  Applications are now available online here. Deadline for entry is 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 24, 2015.  Entrants will be limited to the first 25 applications received.  Miss Food City will receive $1,000 cash, along with additional prizes, including an additional $1,000 scholarship from sponsor Rave Hairspray.

Headquartered in Abingdon, Virginia, K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. (Food City’s parent company) operates 105 retail food outlets throughout the tri-state regions of Southeast Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee.  The company also recently acquired 29 BI-LO supermarkets in Chattanooga, Tennessee and north Georgia.