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Food Management Magazine Announces Winners of Its 2007 ``Best Concept'' Awards Competition

Posted on: Thursday, 14 June 2007, 12:15 CDT

Penton Media's Food Management® magazine has announced the winners of its 2007 "Best Concepts" awards competition. The annual program recognizes exceptional achievement and innovation in key areas of noncommercial foodservice, as judged by the FM editorial staff. Categories range from initiatives in new and renovated foodservice facility design to menu innovation, wellness initiatives, special event planning and convenience retailing. The awards will be featured in a special editorial section of the July issue of Food Management and will be presented at the magazine's annual IDEAS Conference October 30-Nov. 1 at the Red Rock Hotel & Resort in Las Vegas.

The top honor for "Best of Show" in 2007 was awarded to Google, Inc. and its director of foodservice, John Dickman. It recognizes the world-class foodservice operations Google supports in its many facilities in the U.S. and worldwide and the impact they have had on business dining and other segments. Food Management has reported on Google's foodservice programs over the years, as it grew from a small Silicon Valley startup into a global giant. Google has set a standard of excellence for the role and contributions foodservice can play in establishing, maintaining and enriching a corporate and employee culture.

Individual category winners are posted on the magazine's Web site at http://www.food-management.com/news/17114.

Food Management's editors based 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, most importantly, the level of innovation it represents given standard practices in a given noncommercial segment of the foodservice industry. The awards will be featured in a special Best Concepts editorial package that appears in the magazine's July issue and will be posted online soon after.

For more information on the Best Concepts awards program, contact John Lawn, editor in chief of the magazine at (216) 931-9620 or email johnlawn@penton.com. For more information on the FM IDEAS Conference, contact Katie Smith, conference director, at (216) 931-9559 or email ksmith@penton.com. Online content from FM can be viewed at www.food-management.com.

Food Management, published by Penton Media, Inc., is the leading business publication for foodservice directors, managers, contract management executives and others in the non-commercial or "onsite" sector 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 segments.

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

Source: Business Wire

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