We’re looking back at the impact of the Healthy Kids in the Bon Appétit Kitchen series of food education classes we held over the past few months for kids all over the country. The Food Education team hosted over 20 classes and reached 400 children this summer. Hooray for watermelon pizza!
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Executive Chef Doran Payne’s Culinary Adventure: Celebrating Bon Appétit’s Chef of the Year 2023
Meet Bon Appétit’s nominee for 2023 Chef Appreciation Week Chef of the Year, Doran Payne!
From Cow to Café: Vassar Students Tour Storied Local Dairy Farm
When Bon Appétit Fellow Elise Dudley and over a dozen Vassar College students caravanned out to Amenia, NY earlier this year, they expected to learn firsthand about the dairy industry and meet a storied local Farm to Fork partner. They got even more, including a lesson in emerging cooperative models that protect small dairy farms.
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Bon Appétit Management Company is an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, museums, and other specialty venues. Based in Palo Alto, CA, we operate more than 1,000 cafés in 33 states. Our chefs cook from scratch, including sauces, stocks, and soups. Widely recognized as a pioneer in environmentally sound sourcing policies, we are proud to be the first food service company to:
Directly support small, local farms- Strive to serve only sustainable seafood
- Address antibiotics overuse in our meat supply
- Switch to cage-free eggs, both shell and precracked/liquid
- Tackle food’s role in climate change
- Advocate for farmworkers’ rights
- Commit to pork raised without gestation crates
- Switch to third-party verified humanely raised ground beef
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As a chef-driven company, we take Chef Appreciation Week very seriously. Last week, teams ...
As a chef-driven company, we take Chef Appreciation Week very seriously. Last week, teams highlighted hundreds of their culinarians on social media, showcasing their talents and letting them tell the story of their culinary journey. Here’s a small taste of the love that was shared. ❤️ #ChefAppreciationWeek
We're big fans of shaking things up with unique on-campus dining options. Although our food is ...
We're big fans of shaking things up with unique on-campus dining options. Although our food is always cooked from scratch using fresh, authentic, and, preferably, local ingredients, we're always trying to raise the bar by creating unique culinary experiences.
Enter Quaker Kitchen by @PennDining, an on-campus restaurant where guests can make a reservation and enjoy unique eats like last week's menu:
🥗 Arugula and iceberg salad with sweet and spicy miso (not pictured)
🎣 Soy maple glazed salmon or tofu with a sesame soba noodle salad and oven-charred broccoli (pictured)
🍵 Matcha panna cotta with sesame seed tuile (pictured)
#LoveBonAppetit #QuakerKitchen #PennDining #foodfromscratch #freshandlocal #foodiefinds #oncampusdining
Meet Executive Chef Doran Payne, our Chef of the Year!
Doran fell in love with cooking ...
Meet Executive Chef Doran Payne, our Chef of the Year!
Doran fell in love with cooking from a young age. He attended the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu London Culinary School in the UK, ended up on a journey to high-end restaurants across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany, and received a prestigious international scholarship from The James Beard Foundation to study at the world-renowned Le Cordon Bleu Paris.
After working at Michelin-starred restaurants and spending time with the Four Seasons, he put his roots down in Chicago. He opened his café, Prairie Bread Kitchen, which operated for 10 years before closing just before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here are just some of the reasons he was selected as our Chef of The Year:
1️⃣ He takes a supportive and open approach to employee development, creating an environment open to ideas and filled with opportunities and paths for growth.
2️⃣ Doran has driven food waste reduction efforts by implementing a food recovery program and Waste Not 2.0, Bon Appétit’s proprietary waste tracking system. In the past year, food waste diversion at Doran’s corporate account was equivalent to saving 1.77 million gallons of water and reducing the carbon footprint by 40.2 tons of CO2 equivalent.
3️⃣ Our CEO and Co-Founder Fedele Bauccio said it best: “Genuine hospitality is at Doran’s core, and he takes great pride in providing a positive work environment for all employees and creating an excellent experience for all our guests.”
When he was notified that he won Bon Appétit’s 2023 Chef of the Year award, Doran stayed true to his nature. “I am humbled and honored by the award, but I know there are so many great chefs within this company. I still ask, why me?” Read more at the link in our bio. #ChefAppreciationWeek
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Cafés and Restaurants at the Huntington and Metropolitan Museum of Art Named Among the Nation’s Best
The American Alliance of Museums recently noted the cafés and restaurants at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as among the nation’s best museum eateries.
Bon Appétit Wins Produce Business Most Innovative Dining Outlet Award
Converting Americans’ deficient produce intake and poor dietary habits has proved a formidable feat, but not a fait accompli. This was the impetus propelling the Produce Business industry-nominated award series, which launched this year to honor innovative companies and executives that market and sell produce to drive overall consumption. Bon Appétit Management Company is the inaugural winner in the foodservice category.
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- Get excited when fresh, local produce arrives on your loading dock
- Enjoy creating all-new dishes from scratch
- Love interacting with people through delicious and nutritious food
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