All Blog Posts Tagged 'association' (10)

Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign got a huge boost recently when our fabulous longstanding partners, the National Restaurant Association, committed to enhanced long-term support for our campaign.

At the Association’s Leadership Affairs Conference Gala on April 17th, National Restaurant Association President and CEO Dawn Sweeney announced that the organization’s commitment to work together with Share Our Strength to triple the funds raised for Share Our Strength’s No Kid…

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I have some great news hot off the grill!

Jer Bear,a Fohboh member was the first person to respond to my discussion,

"Suggestions on how to celebrate my Be Kind To Food Servers Awareness Month in January".

I was happy to find out that he is a waiter and a comedian. I am also a comedienne.

He is planning on joining me in Memphis for a city-wide blood drive at my church.

I host the annual Be Kind To Food Servers Awareness Month city-wide blood…

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I’m extremely proud to say that our entire bagel crew is ServSafe certified. It’s a requirement of both DC and Montgomery County that at least one certified food service manager is always on the restaurants premises. This is very important. The things that has bothered me for years is the dominating mentality of only the people in the position of “management” were certified! The people that do a large majority of food handling and cleaning are not…

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Recent outbreaks of salmonella in the food supply have brought the restaurant and foodservice industry into the media spotlight. News of illness and recalls associated with spinach, tomatoes and jalapenos has been a serious cause for concern to those who make their livelihood in the foodservice industry. Yet, however widespread it appears to be, according to the National Restaurant Association, the U.S. food supply is the safest in the world.

While recent events have proven it is often…

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Tomorrow NRA Conserve hosts a free online seminar, 'Go Green to Save Green,' tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET. Vaughan Lazar of Eric Haley of Pizza Fusion and Matthew McLaughlin from The Rockfish will share their stories about how they made their restaurants more sustainable. Conserve project manager Chris Moyer will also chime in with some of the latest… Continue

It seems like only yesterday that the National Restaurant Association revealed the results of its second annual "What’s Hot… What’s Not" survey. But, in fact, it was near the end of last year. (Cliché alert!) How time flies!



The questionnaire collected data from over 1,000 members of the American Culinary Federation, one of the country’s… Continue

It appears the Governator and Calif. Assemblyman Tony Mendoza (Dem.) are celebrating the victory of the legislation banning trans fat. This past Friday, Gov. Schwarzenegger signed the law into action, making California the first in the U.S. to take statewide action with regard to this issue.



The legislation, proposed by Mendoza, goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2010 and "will ban restaurants, bakeries and other retail food establishments from using oil, margarine and shortening containing… Continue

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Hi, everyone!



The National Restaurant Association has finally arrived on FohBoh. Took long enough, right?! Well, better late than ever.



I look forward to meeting you all eventually. In the meantime, please check out the following video. It inspired me, and I hope it makes you proud of the restaurant industry… Continue