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2023 Education Program

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    • Workshop
    This class will be taught in English - ServSafe Food Protection Manager Class + Exam California State law requires each [individual] food service establishment to have at least one employee who is cer ...
    • Workshop
    This class will be taught in Spanish - ServSafe Food Protection Manager Class + Exam California State law requires each [individual] food service establishment to have at least one employee who is cer ...
    • Workshop
    This workshop will guide you through the process of becoming a cohesive team with strong leadership. It's an in-depth management training workshop that will give you the knowledge, skills, and systems ...
    • Workshop
    This workshop will guide you through the process of becoming a cohesive team with strong leadership. It's an in-depth management training workshop that will give you the knowledge, skills, and systems ...
  1. How To Theater
    • How To Theater
    Panel discussion with distributors on the supply chain, food safety, and the broader global economic challenges that are affecting and impacting the restaurant and foodservice industries.
  2. How To Theater
    • How To Theater
    What lessons can we learn from some of the biggest luxury brands in the world like Hermes and Krug? How can we apply those lessons to our restaurants to generate bigger profits and create better guest ...
  3. Center Stage
    • Center Stage
    SHAUN O’NEALE is recognized around the world as the Season 7 Champion of MasterChef on FOX. Not only an award winning chef, Shaun’s skills as a culinary host have landed him appearances on Seasons 8, ...
  4. Center Stage
    • Center Stage
    Mareya Ibrahim is known as ‘The Fit Foodie.’ She’s a chef, nutrition coach, author and award-winning entrepreneur and inventor. Mareya was featured on the Emmy-nominated cooking show, Recipe Rehab for ...
  5. Center Stage
    • Center Stage
    Deanna was born & raised in a suburb of Boston by my Parents who owned an Italian Restaurant. I learned cooking from both of them from a young age but a passion for the stage took me in another direct ...
  6. How To Theater
    • How To Theater
    Managers delegate but Leaders empower. In this session, Roger explains how to recognize talent and reward additional responsibility and performance to get the most from your team. Guest expectations a ...
  7. How To Theater
    • How To Theater
    Law-related difficulties are all too common for business owners. Restaurants are especially subject to a wide swath of regulations at the local, state, and federal levels. To help alleviate this legal ...
  8. Business Solutions Stage
    • Business Solutions Stage
    Tired of your restaurant's social media being a total snooze-fest? Come learn 5 easy moves that you or your team can do with your social media, starting today, that will up your game and get your gues ...
  9. Conversation Corner
    • Conversation Corner
    It used to be a trend but now plant-based is the new normal. So how can foodservice take vegan from ordinary to extraordinary fast, easy and cost-effective?We will share the coolest new vegan swap-out ...
  10. Conversation Corner
    • Conversation Corner
    In this presentation, Chef Mareya, The Fit Foodie and our Center Stage emcee, brings the top 8 trends to life, published in her 11th annual food and beverage report, she’ll be sharing what every healt ...
  11. Business Solutions Stage
    • Business Solutions Stage
    Delivering the Digital Restaurant explores the world of off-premise food and the massive disruption facing American restaurants through first-hand accounts of restaurateurs, food industry veterans and ...
  12. Business Solutions Stage
    • Business Solutions Stage
    The 3 foundational “systems” necessary for restaurant success, establishing Leadership and empowerment vs. management and delegation, recruiting vs. hiring to create a strong company culture, incentiv ...
  13. Center Stage
    • Center Stage

    Chef Riley Baird, Executive Development Chef, Lamb Weston will present a culinary demonstration on Center Stage.  Born and raised in Idaho, Riley grew up with a passion for potatoes (and food in general). With over 15 years in restaurant kitchens, Riley has worked in a wide variety of establishments, from fast casual to French inspired wineries. She recently joined the team here at Lamb Weston® and is excited to use her operator background to help the team. “I love the versatility of potatoes - the options and possibilities are never ending.”

  14. Center Stage
    • Center Stage
    This must-attend seminar from top experts in the hospitality industry will take a deep dive into how to streamline operations. These experts will walk you through how to take a broad, top-down view of ...
  15. How To Theater
    • How To Theater
    Learn how to build a successful beverage program from scratch or revamp one that's struggling! Master Sommelier David Glancy will discuss his top tips, tricks, and mistakes to avoid when establishing ...
  16. Conversation Corner
    • Conversation Corner
    Join us for a candid discussion on how restaurants build thriving communities and open doors to new opportunities. Case Study: South LA Café. We’ll share success stories that have lead this small busi ...
  17. How To Theater
    • How To Theater
    You have tons of great ideas. Employee culture! Marketing! New brand initiatives! But who the heck can find time for all of that?! This session aims to solve your “too busy putting out fires" problem, ...
  18. Center Stage
    • Center Stage
  19. Conversation Corner
    • Conversation Corner
    Are you looking to fill your vacancies with passionate, qualified hospitality professionals? Hospitality programs at community colleges and universities nationwide have students and alums eager to lau ...
  20. Conversation Corner
    • Conversation Corner
    Learn how to unlock the POWER of Digital Hospitality and the SECRETS of Smartphone Storytelling with Shawn Walchef, founder of Cali BBQ Media. In this presentation you will learn how our “Toast Unboxi ...
  21. Center Stage
    • Center Stage
    This year's Rapid Fire Challenge theme is Single Skillet. Chefs are invited to bring their favorite dishes that are made in one pan to showcase the benefits including controlling the cooking process, ...
  22. Business Solutions Stage
    • Business Solutions Stage
    This is an educational presentation focusing on the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC). Our discussion will cover the program's origins, numerous modifications over time, and the eligibility criteri ...
  23. Center Stage
    • Center Stage
    Battle of the Modern Bartender Competition comes to life at the Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo. Our creative bartender contestants battle it out to see who has the best rye whiskey cocktail. T ...
  24. Business Solutions Stage
    • Business Solutions Stage
    Whether you are looking to buy, sell or be more profitable in your restaurant — this session is for you. Darren S. Denington, CFBE has spent the last 37 years in the Hospitality industry helping resta ...
  25. How To Theater
    • How To Theater
    Word of mouth is a powerful marketing tool, but it exists in a variety of formats that are often underutilized by restaurants. Ordinary diners are sharing photos, videos, and reviews about your establ ...

    Sponsored By:

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  26. How To Theater
    • How To Theater
    This is a must attend session for both existing restaurant owners facing a lease renewal negotiation and new start-up restaurant tenants leasing space for the first time. Learn the 13 costly mistakes ...
  27. How To Theater
    • How To Theater
    In the U.S., approximately 40% of food is being wasted at every step of the food supply chain, from production to distribution to stores, restaurants, and consumers. This session will educate on how f ...
  28. Conversation Corner
    • Conversation Corner
    This is a 45-minute presentation meant to help owners and operators shift the way they think about marketing. Most restaurants fail because they don't have a "Path to Profitability", but many of the s ...

    Sponsored By:

    hazelnut logo

  29. Conversation Corner
    • Conversation Corner
    One of the biggest issues managers and owners have in the hospitality industry, is getting staff to care about their “job” and not treating it as a temporary “gig”. How do you get your staff to respec ...

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