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Nominations now open for Food Management’s 2023 Best Concept awards

Do you have a top-notch onsite foodservice program? Would you like to gain some recognition for your company and employees?

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

January 3, 2023

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Food Management is now accepting nominations for its Best Concept awards program, which it has sponsored since 1998 with the goal of recognizing and celebrating the best practices and the most innovative thinking in onsite foodservice. Each year, FM editors evaluate nominations, judging them on a variety of factors ranging from their creativity to their impact on a given program and their effectiveness in achieving targeted results. The winners will be highlighted in July in a special online package.

Nominations must be for a program or operation at a noncommercial or onsite operation (no commercial restaurants are eligible) but can come from any source, including other operators, foodservice department members, manufacturers, consultants or administrators. The deadline for the 2023 competition is April 21, 2023. 

To submit a nomination, please fill out and email this form, along with supporting materials—including photographs—to [email protected]

Any questions can be directed to the same email. 

You can read more about previous winners here.

 

 

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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