Food Management Magazine Announces the Winners of Its 2006 Best Concept Awards
Monday February 13, 9:00 am ET
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2006--Food Management magazine, published by Penton Media (OTCBB:PTON - News), has announced winners of its 2006 Best Concepts Awards competition, which recognizes exceptional achievement and innovation in several categories of onsite or "noncommercial" foodservice. The winners will be featured in the cover story that appears FM's March 2006 issue and will be highlighted at the 2006 Food Management Ideas Conference, to be held May 17-19 in Chicago, immediately preceding the National Restaurant Show.
Winning Best of Show in the 2006 competition is Purdue University Dining Services, headed by Director Sarah Johnson. The award recognizes Purdue Dining Services' outstanding achievement in completely transforming its campus dining operations from a traditional, inefficient model characterized by 19 small, retail and board outlets into a series of 10 vibrant, cutting edge dining halls and retail operations. These new facilities, built in stages over a number of years (the last will open in 2008), not only give Purdue students a wide choice of contemporary dining options but offer the university a high-profile, on-campus amenity that will help it compete for the most promising future students.
Winners in other categories are:
Best Renovation:
-- Citigroup Cafe, New York, NY
-- The Student Dining Marketplace at Rowan University, Glassboro,
NJ
-- D2 Dining Hall at Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA
Best New Facility:
-- Gateway 3 Back Door Cafe at Prudential Financial, Newark, NJ
-- Ram's Head Dining Hall at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC
-- Segundo Dining Room at the University of California-Davis
Best Menu
-- Kendal at Oberlin, Oberlin, OH
-- Leaping Frog Cafe at the Central Park Zoo, New York, NY
-- Vegetarian Lunch Line at Grady High School, Atlanta, GA
Best Service Station/Service Outlet
-- The Chocolate Bar at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
-- The Bistro Cafe at University Hospital, Newark, NJ
-- Ro* Tiki Cafe at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Best Special Event
-- Innovation Luncheon at BASF, Durham, NC
-- Buckeye Bash at Ohio State University Medical Ctr., Columbus,
OH
-- Eat Local Challenge of Bon Appetit Management Co., Palo Alto,
CA
Best Management Company Concept/Program
-- Piccolo Bistro, Sodexho, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD
-- AguaFresca, Aramark Corp., Philadelphia, PA
-- BBQ Great American, Restaurant Associates, New York, NY
Best Customer Service Concept
-- Lunch Pre-Order System at 1-800-CONTACTS, Draper, UT
-- Finger Scan Cafeteria Validation System at Akron (OH) Public
Schools
-- Barcode-Based POS System at Stony Brook University Hospital,
Long Island, NY
Contact:
Food Management Magazine
Katie Smith, 216-931-9559
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Source: Food Management Magazine
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