Honoring a Legacy
As Daisy always said, "You come in as a customer and leave as a friend."
Randi Mallory
Owner, Miss Daisy's Market
Randi is a Brentwood native who began her food service journey right here in Cool Springs. She later spent 12 years in Atlanta, where she built extensive experience in the restaurant industry and deepened her passion for hospitality and great food.
After moving back to Franklin, Randi followed her dream by launching her own catering business and creating custom school lunch programs throughout Williamson County. During that time, Daisy became a loyal supporter of Randi’s cooking, often carrying many of her dishes in the market.
Eventually, Randi joined Daisy in the kitchen full-time, learning the heart and tradition behind Daisy’s beloved recipes. After Daisy’s passing, Randi purchased the market to continue her legacy and preserve the recipes that made this place so special.
Today, Randi honors that promise by celebrating what has always mattered most here: strong local partnerships, trusted community vendors, and delicious food meant to gather people around the table and create lasting memories for generations to come.
Miss Daisy King
Miss Daisy's story began in 1974, when Daisy King opened the doors of Miss Daisy's Tea Room in Carter's Court in historic downtown Franklin, Tennessee. A Buford, Georgia native who came to Nashville to study journalism and home economics at Belmont College, Daisy brought with her a love of the land, a grandmother's recipes, and a Southern hospitality that couldn't be taught. She was farm-to-table before it had a name. Almost immediately, customers started asking to take her recipes home — and from those handwritten scraps and cash register receipts, her legendary "Little Yellow Cookbook" was born. Over the next five decades, that first slim volume grew into 14 cookbooks, a string of restaurants and food emporiums, and a career that made Daisy King one of the most beloved culinary icons in the South. Eventually she opened up Miss Daisy's Kitchen to bring her recipes to the Franklin area.
Miss Daisy's Legacy
Daisy King passed away in March 2025, but the food she loved isn't going anywhere. Miss Daisy's Market at the corner of Mack Hatcher and Hillsboro Road in Franklin carries on her legacy under new ownership — same recipes, same heart, same commitment to Southern cooking done right. The pimento cheese, the chicken salad, the pot pies, the meatloaf, the poppy-seed chicken, and the five-flavor pound cake she first learned to make at her grandmother's knee are all still here. Her cookbooks line the shelves. The flavors haven't changed. Because some things shouldn't.