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Best of Show Roll Call

Here are the FM Best Concept Awards Best of Show winners for the past 15 years…

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

December 18, 2023

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FM's Best Concept Awards program has annually highlighted the creativity and innovation that characterize the onsite dining community. As the magazine ends its run this month, we thought we'd take a look back at the programs that represented the "best of the best" by winning the Best Concepts Best of Show Award, so here are the winners of that accolade for each of the past 15 years. 

Online profiles of the winners previous to 2009 are not available but they were...

2008: University of Massachusetts-Amherst

2007: Google Inc.

2006: Purdue University

2005: University of Washington

2001-2004: no awards

2000: Condé Nast

1999: Cornell University

1998: Vanderbilt University

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

 

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