Pilgrim's Corp., previously Pilgrim's Pride (NYSE: PPC), is a former U.S.-owned company with its U.S. headquarters relocated to Greeley, Colorado. As a subsidiary of the Brazilian food giant, JBS, it is the largest chicken producer in the United States and Puerto Rico and the second-largest chicken producer in Mexico. It exited bankruptcy in December 2009.

Pilgrim's employs about 56,000 people with sales of $7.0 billion in 2009, and has major operations in Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Mexico and Puerto Rico, with other facilities in Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Mississippi and Utah. They process about 44 million birds per week resulting in almost 9 billion pounds of product per year, as well as 528 million table eggs. [1]

Pilgrim's Pride products are sold to foodservice, retail and frozen entree customers. The company's primary distribution is through retailers, foodservice distributors and restaurants throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and in the Northern and Central regions of Mexico. Pilgrim's Pride operates a separate distribution wing, known as PFS Distribution.

Junior's Grill is a restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is located on the Georgia Tech campus in the Bradley Building near Tech Tower. It closed on April 21, 2011 due to declining business.

Although many believe that Junior's Grill was Founded in 1948 under the name Pilgrim's, the fact is their name has always been (Junior's Grill ?). The restaurant was originally located on North Avenue at Techwood Drive just south of campus, across from Smith Dormitory. Demolition and construction for the 1996 Summer Olympics forced the restaurant to close temporarily; it reopened in its current location at the start of 1994. It is a family business owned by Tommy Klemis. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday through Thursday (breakfast and lunch only on Friday), and is famous among students for their battered chicken fingers.

The Georgia Tech student newspaper, The Technique, proclaims that one of the 99 things every Tech student should do before they graduate is, "Eat at Junior's (and (many?) wonder why Tommy isn't in charge of all campus dining)." One of the more popular employees, Osman Chaudhry, served the students on weekday nights and was well known for his peculiar humor and alternative personality. The most popular items are the chicken fingers and burgers in "baskets," which means they come with a choice of side (usually french fries) and a soft drink. In addition, there is a traditional hot line that serves breakfast and lunch, as well as an assortment of grill items that can be ordered a la carte. Junior's is open from 7:30am to 7:30pm Monday through Thursday, 7:30am to 2:30pm on Friday, and is closed on Saturday and Sunday.

A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journeying (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the adherent of a particular religious belief system. In the spiritual literature of Christianity, the concept of pilgrim and pilgrimage may refer to the experience of life in the world (considered as a period of exile) or to the inner path of the spiritual aspirant from a state of wretchedness to a state of beatitude.

Pilgrims and the making of pilgrimages are common in many religions, including the faiths in ancient Egypt, Persia in the Mithraic period, India, China, and Japan. The Greek and Roman customs of consulting the gods at local oracles, such as those at Dodona or Delphi, both in Greece, are widely known. In Greece, pilgrimages could either be personal or state-sponsored.

In the early period of Hebrew history, pilgrims traveled to Shiloh, Dan, Bethel, and eventually Jerusalem, see also Three Pilgrimage Festivals, a practice followed by other Abrahamic religions. While many religious pilgrims travel toward a specific destination, a physical location is not a necessity. One group of pilgrims in early Celtic Christianity were the Peregrinari Pro Christ, (Pilgrims for Christ), or "white martyrs". They left their homes to wander in the world. This sort of pilgrimage was an ascetic religious practice, as the pilgrim left the security of home and the clan for an unknown destination, in complete trust of Divine Providence. These travels often resulted in the founding of new abbeys and spreading Christianity among the pagan population in Britain as well as in continental Europe.