Press Releases

Bon Appétit Management Company CEO Fedele Bauccio has been named the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2014 National Retail and Consumer Products Award winner, for redefining the food service industry and pioneering environmental and local sourcing policies. The 11 award winners were selected by an independent panel of judges and from more than 250 regional award recipients.

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Bon Appétit has entered into a collaborative partnership with The James Beard Public Market, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, to develop and create programming for a state-of-the-art teaching and demonstration kitchen and event space in Portland.

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Erin Johnson and Ben Doherty of Open Hands Farm in Northfield, MN, finalists for Bon Appétit Management Company's Fork to Farm grant program

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of its groundbreaking Farm to Fork program, Bon Appétit Management Co. is offering 10 grants of $5,000 each to small farms to help them grow their business. Guests around the country will get to vote on Eat Local Challenge Day.

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Starting in January 2015, all of the skipjack tuna Bon Appétit Management Co. purchases will be caught without fish aggregating devices (FADs), part of its quest to serve only sustainable seafood.

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Fans can get a field-level peek at the action from inside the Garden

The first edible garden-plus-community classroom in a U.S sports facility, the Garden at AT&T Park (#GiantsGarden) will offer hyperlocal sustainable produce for Bon Appétit Management Company’s ballpark menus, a unique space for San Francisco Giants fans, and wellness education programs for the community.

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Bon Appétit Management Company CEO and Cofounder Fedele Bauccio is honored for revolutionizing the on-site restaurant industry by the prestigious EY Entrepreneur Of The Year program.

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Bon Appétit Fed Up Challenge poster (click to enlarge)

Life in America is sweet — in fact too sweet, according to a powerful new film that opens across the U.S. on Friday, May 9. Inspired by “Fed Up,” Bon Appétit has partnered with our clients Adobe, SAP, Medtronic, SAS, and several others to support the Fed Up Challenge in our cafés, inviting our guests to commit to cutting out all sugar for 10 days.

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On Thursday, April 24, for our 7th annual companywide Low Carbon Diet Day, cafés around the country will be transformed into fun culinary classrooms offering ways for guests to shrink their carbon “foodprint” via tasty alternatives to beef and dairy.

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A FoodCorps servicemember watches as an elementary student tries squash fries in Traverse City, MI.

Nine corporate visionaries announced their commitment to support FoodCorps in its mission to give all youth an enduring relationship with healthy food. Bon Appétit is proud to be one of them.

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Service Member Peter Kerns with Missoula (Montana) County Public School 2nd graders. Photo credit Kelly Campbell

At Bon Appétit, we believe that making a positive difference in the food system — one that pays dividends long past the holiday season — is the best gift to give. Every December, we make a sizable annual holiday gift to a nonprofit in honor of our clients in lieu of hundreds of physical tokens of appreciation. Our 2013 recipient is FoodCorps, a 4-year-old national service organization.

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