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Rooftop honeybees create business buzz

How two convention centers served by Centerplate make their rooftop apiaries a showcase for sustainability and a source of hyper-local honey for sweet menu items.

Tara Fitzpatrick, Editor-in-Chief

May 17, 2017

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Using bees as tiny ambassadors and providers of delicious honey has emerged as a totally buzz-worthy way to engage with guests, staff, the community and nature.

“Keeping bees is always going to be something that’s of interest to the public and it can differentiate one business from the next,” says Andrew Pollard, regional vice president with Centerplate at Vancouver Convention Centre in British Columbia. “It can become a signature.”

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Tara Fitzpatrick

Editor-in-Chief, FoodService Director

Tara Fitzpatrick is editor-in-chief of FoodService Director. She previously served as senior editor for Food Management magazine.

At the start of her career, Tara was a reporter for the daily newspaper in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she still resides. She holds a journalism degree from Kent State University. She's also a mom, a pretty good home cook and a fan of ghost stories, folklore, architecture, retro recipes, cheese of all kinds and cats of all kinds.

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