Foodservice Educators Earn Industry’s Top 2018 Award For Excellence In Training Tomorrow’s Professional Culinarians
June 26, 2018 | 2 min to read
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Four foodservice educators were honored as the best in their field in the 2018 CAFÉ/Sysco Corp. Educator of the Year Awards presented at the 14th-Annual Leadership Conference of the Center for the Advancement of Foodservice Education (CAFÉ) in Milwaukee on June 14.
Houston-based Sysco Corp., the inaugural sponsor of the awards program, is in its fourth year of supporting this annual national award that acknowledges industry contributions of foodservice instructors. All award recipients—who received endorsements from their administrators, program and industry colleagues, and former and current students—are professional culinarians with celebrated commercial work experience prior to teaching.
This year’s honorees are:
* 2018 CAFÉ/Sysco Corp. Postsecondary Educator of the Year — Nannette Mendez, assistant professor, The José A. Tony Santana International School of Hospitality and Culinary Arts, Universidad del Este, San Juan, Puerto Rico
* Runner-up, postsecondary — Katrina Warner, coordinator and culinary-arts instructor, Tarrant County College, Arlington, Texas
* 2018 CAFÉ/Sysco Corp. Secondary Educator of the Year — Ana Plana, department chair and culinary-arts instructor, Maritime and Science Technology (MAST) Academy, Key Biscayne, Fla.
* Runner-up, secondary — Maybell Galusha, culinary-arts instructor, The Career Academy (Lincoln Public Schools and Southeast Community College), Omaha, Neb.
As Educators of the Year, Mendez and Plana each earned a $1,500 grant. All four educators received commemorative plaques from Sysco Corp. and complimentary full registrations to the 2018 CAFÉ Leadership Conference, June 14-16 at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) in Wisconsin.
About Sysco Corp. Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 65,000 associates, the company operates approximately 300 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 500,000 customer locations. For fiscal 2017 that ended July 1, 2017, the company generated sales of more than $55 billion. Connect with Sysco on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SyscoCorporation and Twitter at www.twitter.com/Sysco. For more info, visit www.Sysco.com.
About the Center for the Advancement of Foodservice Education (CAFÉ)
Founded in 2002, CAFÉ links the foodservice classroom to the foodservice industry to provide needed resources to educators so that they may more successfully train students for vibrant, fulfilling careers in the ever-evolving hospitality industry. Through its web portal, online magazine “The Gold Medal Classroom,” annual Leadership Conference, Deans and Directors Retreat and regional skills workshops nationwide, CAFÉ is dedicated to addressing the unique needs of highly specialized professionals who wear two hats as culinarians and teachers. For more info, visit www.CafeMeetingPlace.com.
Source: Center for the Advancement of Foodservice Education (CAFÉ)