FM Best Concepts

Each year, Food Management honors the most innovative operations in categories including best concept, best renovation, best menu and best customer service concept.

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Hospital’s grocery store part of wellness outreach effort

Aug 15, 2017

Eskenazi Health gives staff and community members a convenient source of fresh ingredients along with education on how to make them into nutritious meals.

Best Customer Service Concept: Gathering Place and 1North at Purdue University

Jul 25, 2017

Repurposed dining rooms are now pop-up buffet-style restaurants in the evening where groups and individual meal plan holders can reserve space and avoid the lines and crowds at the regular dining halls.

Best of Show: UNC REX Healthcare

Jul 20, 2017

Best of Show winning UNC REX Healthcare is a trendsetter with its focus on serving chef-driven fresh, healthy fare with commercial flair.

Best Wellness Concept: Build Your Own Healthy Living Meal, FLIK Hospitality Group at American Express

Jul 20, 2017

This program allows diners to customize meals at various food stations through a combination of components while still being assured that they remain within specific limits on sodium, saturated fat and calories.

Best Special Event: Tasting the Tree of Life, The College of New Jersey/Sodexo

Jul 20, 2017

This special dinner featured nine meals that utilized 149 species/ingredients across the tree of life, from plants and animals to fungi and bacteria.

Best Renovation: Café 36, Microsoft and Eurest

Jul 20, 2017

A product of Microsoft’s Café Lifecycle remodel program, Café 36 now features exhibition cooking suites integrated into seating areas, nine high-impact station concepts and hydroponic towers.

Best Convenience Retailing Concept: The Grid at Liberty University/Sodexo

Jul 20, 2017

C-store supports the school’s community service mission by donating 1 percent of each sale to a charity chosen by the customer.

Best Management Company Concept: Morrison Healthcare

May 12, 2017

Playing into the fast-casual, what’s-next mindset of today’s consumer, Morrison Healthcare developed an interesting mix of ready-made restaurants that can change cuisine, look, feel, branding and even staff uniforms at the drop of a hat.

Best New Facility: UC Boulder

Feb 13, 2017

In 2015, the University of Colorado broke ground on a new Village Dining and Community Center in its Williams Village community, replacing the Darley Commons facility. “The Darley building was built in 1969 and was in dire need of a face...

Food Management now accepting nominations for Best Concepts 2017

Jan 11, 2017

The winners will be honored in the July issue.

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