A Really Big Dill
rian Dalton did not want to go into the family business. By the time he was a teenager, he’d had enough pickle talk. “I don’t think there was a single Thanksgiving or family meal where there wasn’t a discussion about trucks or cucumbers or customers,” says Brian, CFO and president of Best Maid Pickles. Besides, his aspirations were musical. A star trumpet player who made the McDonald’s All American band his senior year, Dalton headed south from Mansfield to Waco to pursue a music degree at Baylor University. He thought his road might lead to the great performance halls of New York City, but after graduation, he decided a career in
