EXHIBIT IN 2023

This 70x60 foot area features our NEW Center Stage Experience, where we’ll be hosting chef and bartender competitions and culinary demos, and a VIP area for our 5-star key buyer group.  

This feature will be marketed heavily to our audience as a place where they can come and truly immerse themselves in culinary experiences that both thrill and educate… have your provided food products used in the culinary arts at Center Stage where we build an amazing event experience that enables the audience to see, touch, smell, and taste the flavors that our sponsors bring to the proverbial “table”! 

• Recognized as one of two major headline sponsors of the event as a whole, and of its main feature – The Center Stage Experience (headliner branding in these deliverables is all positioned side-by-side with the kitchen sponsor)  

• Brought in under “partner status” to our content planning committee where your company can contribute and help shape the specific content taking place on our center stage across all three days of the event 

• An exclusively client-produced session (can be a demonstration, chef competition, or otherwise) on the center stage – ability to contribute more where it makes sense within the structure of the production as determined by the content committee 

• A spot for your chef or representative in our culinary demonstrations or competitions

• Food products provided by sponsor are utilized by Center Stage chefs

• Emcee callouts and mentions of sponsor brand and products throughout Center Stage events

• Logo and mention included on marketing deployments promoting this area as well as on static website pages where this is highlighted  

$10,000 sponsor fee + production costs including (but not limited to) providing food products for demonstrations & receiving, storage & handling of products used in demos 

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This 70x60 foot area features our NEW Center Stage Experience, where we’ll be hosting chef and bartender competitions and culinary demonstrations, and a VIP lounge for our 5-star key buyer group.  

This feature will be marketed heavily to our audience as a place where they can come and truly immerse themselves in culinary experiences that both thrill and educate… together we build an amazing event experience that enables the audience to see, touch, smell, and taste the flavors that our sponsors bring to the proverbial “table”! 

• Recognized as one of two major headline sponsors of the event as a whole, and of its main feature – The Center Stage Experience (headliner branding in these deliverables is all positioned side-by-side with the pantry sponsor)  

• Brought in under “partner status” to our content planning committee where your company can contribute and help shape the specific content taking place on our center stage across all three days of the event 

• An exclusively client-produced session (can be a demonstration, chef competition, or otherwise) on the center stage – ability to contribute more where it makes sense within the structure of the production as determined by the content committee 

• A spot for your chef or representative in our culinary demonstrations or competitions

• Cookware & Equipment provided by sponsor are utilized by Center Stage chefs

• Opportunity to set up equipment display within Center Stage

• Emcee callouts and mentions of sponsor brand and products throughout Center Stage events

• Logo and mention included on marketing deployments promoting this area as well as on static website pages where this is highlighted  

$10,000 sponsor fee + production costs including (but not limited to) labor, drayage, and shipping 

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Demonstrate the functionality of your product or solution within our Center Stage Experience and show the audience the real use-case!

A great example of a product activation sponsor would be a furniture company outfitting the audience seating with their products, or a disposable wares company serving the samples out of their packaging product. 

*Opportunities are limited and all accepted products and solutions into this feature must be non-competing.

$5,000 + production costs including (but not limited to) material handling, shipping, and labor

Opportunities here are extremely limited – get on our inquiry list!