Best Concept Awards
Food Management Magazine Announces Its 2009 Best Concept Award Winners
BEST OF SHOWBrigham Young University Dining BEST SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE Bon Appetit Management Co. BEST UNIT/STATION CONCEPT University of Miami (Ohio)...
Best of Show
BYU's campus dining operation has been an industry leader for a long time. Under the leadership of Dining Services Director Dean Wright, it has literally re-created and elevated the scope...
Food Management Magazine Announces Its 2009 Best Concept Award Winners
From spectacular restaurant and station concepts to novel special events and specialized menus, FM's annual awards program highlights the most innovative operations in onsite foodservice....
Carbon Takes a Holiday
THE BIG IDEA: Sustainability is a huge corporate goal for Bon Appetit and parent Compass Group North America, and Low Carbon Diet Day was designed to highlight both the company's efforts...
Pizza in High Style
THE BIG IDEA: The cliché in the higher education dining segment is that students today expect branded, commercial-style dining choices and authentic ethnic dishes....
Lingerers Welcome
THE BIG IDEA: The typical hospital gift shop is a drab affair managed by volunteers that offers an uninspired inventory of the usual suspects: candy, cards, balloons, bottled beverages and maybe some flowers....
Everybody Stops Here Now…
THE BIG IDEA: The Chef James Bistro replaced a previous station that served a niche audience in a space that needed to attract a much broader clientele. ...
At Trail's End, a Feast
THE BIG IDEA: With the famous Appalachian Trail terminating only about 80 miles from UGA's Athens campus, a theme meal celebrating the Trail is a natural....
Making Healthy Choices Pay
THE BIG IDEA: It started with a simple and rather obvious question from one of the dining operation managers: “if we're going to subsidize something, shouldn't it be something healthy?”...
Tastes Great, Less Filling…
THE BIG IDEA: How do you demonstrate to a population growing more ruinously obese that eating healthy can still taste great?...
Our Favorite Gastro-gnome…
FSD John Pence lent his “image” to the mascot for this theme event, designed to celebrate KSU's horticultural, agricultural and entomological heritage....
Trayless Dining: the Movie
Associate Dining Director Scott Meyer showed some hidden talents for comedy (and movie direction) with this short video clip....
FM's 2009 Best Concept Awards Entry Form
Food Management's Best Concept Award Entry Form...
Boosting Breakfast
WINNER: ARAMARK EDUCATION ENTRY: AMP-UP WITH BREAKFAST THE BIG IDEA: While every public and private school in the U.S. is eligible to get federal funds...
Creating an Urban Underground on a College Campus
WINNER: PURDUE UNIVERSITY ENTRY: UNION COMMONS THE BIG IDEA: How do you redesign a staid traditional student union dining area to make it a trendy place...
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