The Gold Medal. Winning Strategies for Culinary Competitions
12:00 27.02.2011
Chelsea Ballroom
Session #001
Doug Quattrini
Operational Excellence Manager
ARAMARK Higher Education, Philadelphia, PA
Paolo Stefani
National Completion Coordinator
ARAMARK, Chicago, IL
Keith Sipek
Chef
University of Alabama
Keith Morrison
Chef
Mercer University
Masa Yamashita
Chef
University of Tennessee
Brian Phillips
Executive Chef
ARAMARK, Chicago, IL
From Top Chef, to local media, culinary competitions are being hosted in every community. Join the 2010 winning team from ARAMARK Higher Education's national ARAMARK Culinary Excellence competition, as they share their winning strategies for this prestigious and challenging competition.

You will learn:
• How to plan and execute gourmet-quality menus under intense time, equipment and ingredient constraints. • How to work together as a team to produce a winning combination. • How to mentally and physically prepare for not only an intense competition, but for any challenging catered event in general. • How to successfully enter, compete in and triumph in competition such as this ACF (American Culinary Federation) sanctioned event. • How to use 'competing in competitions' as a sales and marketing tool by promoting the image of a culinary team.