Vickie Barton Warner: Scones and success.

• Author: Basden, Casey
• Position: People - Sconecutter - Biography

For 50-year-old Vickie Warner, life seemed complete--not to mention busy--even before she became president of Sconecutter in 1983. After marrying her high school sweetheart, Jerald, just two weeks after graduating from Granger High School, Warner supported her husband as he finished college, and they had their first child the day of his last college final. "We had everything," she says. But more was soon to come.

Warner had begun her work life as an employee of Continental Bank, but it wasn't long before she felt the urge to be more in control of her destiny by running her own business. Her brother Randy Barton had founded Sconecutter in 1977. and Warner was increasingly drawn to being an integral part of the company. Fortunately, Warner had the stamina to make it a reality. applying her lifelong drive to work hard. "I graduated from Granger High and then I didn't go to college or anything. I just started working," she says. As her entrepreneurial goal came within reach. Warner used her position at Continental Bank as a stepping stone toward becoming a full-time Sconecutter owner and operator.

"For awhile, I was working at Continental Bank at night on the graveyard shift, and then I'd work at the Sconecutter down on 200 South and Main Street at our little lunch restaurant." This rigorous schedule continued until Warner went to work nights and days at the second Sconecutter storefront, at 2100 South and State Street. Over the years, Vickie and Jerald continued to help grow Sconecutter until eventually, they came to own 10 of the company's it stores (her brother Rusty Barton still owns one storefront, in West Valley City).

After 25 years in business, Warner describes what she considers the best part of owning and operating your own company: "I think the challenges. The challenges of us being able to make the difference, to be able to make your own decisions and to take the risks have been really an exciting thing."

There are challenges, however. that have proven difficult so overcome...