Food Management Magazine Announces Winners of Its 2011 "Best Concept" Awards Competition

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Cleveland (June 30, 2011)— Penton Media’s Food Management® magazine has announced the winners of its 2011 "Best Concept" awards competition. The annual program recognizes exceptional achievement and innovation in key areas of noncommercial foodservice, as judged by Food Management’s editorial staff.

The top honor for "Best of Show" in 2011 was awarded to the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Housing & Dining Services to recognize the multi-year efforts its dining department has made to enhance its culinary expertise, operational efficiency and customer service programs. These efforts, which include the adaptation of some lean manufacturing principles, laid the groundwork for the department’s program execution in its new C4C dining hall, which has truly become a showplace on the college campus and is also being recognized as the competition’s Best New Facility.

Categories range from initiatives in new and renovated foodservice facility design to menu innovation, wellness initiatives, special event planning and convenience retailing. The awards were featured in a special editorial section of the August issue of Food Management and were presented to winners at the magazine’s annual IDEAS Conference, which was held outside of Dallas September 26-28.

Best of Show/Best New Facility

University of Colorado Boulder: The University of Colorado-Boulder’s new Center for Community dining hall (C4C) employs a sophisticated use of space and design to create highly individualized dining environments and ambiences keyed to specific international food themes and station concepts. The menu development and culinary execution for these stations is also highly customized, yet efficient, in part due to well thought out central prep, production and logistics strategies.
 
Food Management’s editors base their award decisions on a variety of factors, ranging from the impact of a given program, its effectiveness in achieving targeted results, the impact it may have on others in the field and the level of innovation it represents when considered in light of standard practices in a given noncommercial segment of the foodservice industry.

For more information on the Best Concepts awards program, contact John Lawn, editor-in-chief of the magazine at (216) 931-9620 or email john.lawn@penton.com. For more information on the FM IDEAS Conference, contact Monique Monaco, conference director, at (813) 627-6988 or email Monique.monaco@penton.com.

Food Management is the leading business publication for foodservice directors, managers, contract management executives and others in the non-commercial or "onsite" segments of the foodservice industry. Its readers oversee foodservice operations in colleges and universities, business dining, healthcare, K-12 schools, museums, sports and entertainment venues and similar operations. For more information about FM, visit www.food-management.com