El Florida
Restaurant & Lodging Show se llevará a cabo del domingo 7 de septiembre hasta el martes 9 de septiembre del
2014, en el Orange County Convention Center en Orlando. Este evento, que reúne a más
de mil restaurantes y profesionales de la industria, provee un espacio para
actualizar conocimientos acerca de las nuevas tendencias en comidas y bebidas,
además de presentar nuevos productos e ideas para producir eventos
especiales. Asimismo, estos tres días de shows y conferencias,
auspiciados por la Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association (www.frla.org), contarán con más de 400
compañías que exhibirán sus productos y/o servicios.
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Highlights for the
upcoming Florida Restaurant & Lodging Show, include:
Fresh from Florida
Pavilion - The top restaurant menu trend is focused on local sourcing and
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will sponsor the
new Fresh from Florida Pavilion. This new pavilion, which will be part of the
Food Trends Experience on the show floor, offers tantalizing organic, sustainable,
artisanal, gluten-free and ethnic ingredients giving restaurant and foodservice
operators the opportunity to source local, Florida offerings.
Culinary
Demonstrations - Emeril Lagasse, American award-winning celebrity chef,
restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author will be conducting a
culinary demonstration at the Show on Monday, September 8 at 1:00 pm. He will
be joined by Chef Ryan Vargas, Chef de Cuisine at Emeril's Tchoup Chop, located
at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal® Orlando. The chefs will come to
together for an exclusive demonstration that will focus on the local and
seasonal offerings from Florida.
Food Truck Academy
and Pavilion - Mobile vending continues to grow in cities all over North
America and now represents $1Billion in revenue. For those restaurant and
foodservice operators wanting to open food trucks or carts will now find
practical education and support services at the Roam Food Truck Academy which
will be held in conjunction with the Show on Monday, September 8th. The one day
fast track mini Roam Food Truck Academy will give restaurant and foodservice
professionals all the fundamentals they'll need to launch a successful mobile
food business. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from national experts
about business planning, permitting, equipment, production and food ideas,
profits, sales and marketing. To register, click here:
http://ftafl.brownpapertickets.com/. In addition, Prestige Food Trucks will be
organizing a Food Truck Pavilion on the show floor.
The Ferdinand Metz
Foodservice Forum will offer dozens of sessions focused on operational
excellence, winning teams, maximizing profits, hot trends, and building
loyalty. Sessions include the Foodservice Council for Women, Fine Dining - Is
It Dead?, Making Menus Matter for Healthy Diners, Airport Franchising, What's
Hot in the Social Media World for Restaurants, Trends in the Industry, and many
more. For the complete conference program visit
http://www.flrestaurantandlodgingshow.com/133/Education.htm.
The 2014 American
Culinary Federation Culinary Arts Competition presented by US Foods. Chefs
will compete in the R.L. Schreiber Apprentice/Jr. Member Florida State
Championship Team Skills Competition; Taste of Elegance Pork Signature Recipe
Competition, sponsored by Iowa Pork Producers Association; the USA Culinary Cup
Team Competition, sponsored by Bari Beef International, Creekstone Farms, Dole,
Rich's, Maple Leaf, MillerCoors, Barry Callebaut, McIlhenney Co., Wisconsin
Cheese, Fresh from Florida, and Bar Harbor Seafood; The Florida Pastry
Challenge, sponsored by The Culinary Source and Barry Callebaut; and the
Florida Department of Agriculture Shrimp Signature Recipe Competition. Many of
the award winning meals will be served during the Chef's Table Luncheons, a
four-course surprise lunch prepared by the participating chefs.
The Food Trends
Experience is where attendees will have direct access to product, flavors
and ingredients driving the most recent trends in the market - healthy,
organic, sustainable, ethnic, artisanal, and more. A few of the companies
participating in the Food Trends Experience include: Amoroso's Baking Company,
Captain Foods, Carmi Flavor & Fragrance Co Inc, Fresh Origins LLC, La
Chiquita Tortilla, Northfork Bison Distribution Inc, Teaspoon Willie's, in
addition to 50 more.
$35K Giveaway - Show Management will be giving away $35,000
in product vouchers - redeemable from the 2014 Distribution Partners. Attendees can win $500 or $1000 vouchers to
cash in for new products or menu items.
The 2014 Florida Restaurant & Lodging Show is sponsored
by the Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association (www.frla.org). For more
information on exhibiting or attending, visit the official Show website at
www.flrestaurantandlodgingshow.com. The tradeshow and conference is managed and
produced by Kennesaw, GA based Urban Expositions, which offers a complete
roster of trade show management services, including exhibit sales and
marketing, operations, exhibitor/attendee promotions and services, media relations,
seminar and event coordination, database development and management. Through a
logical, hands-on approach, Urban Expositions has become one of the fastest
growing and most successful trade show companies in the United States. Contact
Urban Expositions at www.urban-expo.com.
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