August 1, 2010

Food Management's 2010 Best Concept Awards

2010 winners demonstrate the innovation that onsite operators bring to operations in every major segment.

FM's BEST CONCEPTS AWARDS competition recognizes and celebrates innovative thinking and practice in onsite foodservice.

Each year, our editors evaluate entries for scores of nominees before settling on the winners. The entries themselves are judged on a variety of factors ranging from their creativity to their impact on a given program and their effectiveness in achieving targeted results.

At the end of the day, the Best Concept Awards are about IDEAS — great ideas, innovative ideas, think-outside-the-box ideas — that allow onsite operators to manage foodservices more successfully and more efficiently and to better meet customer expectations.

The goal of the Best Concepts Awards program is to recognize these innovations and the organizations and teams responsible for them…

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Honorable Mention awarded to...

OPERATOR: CURA HOSPITALITY

CONCEPT: CULTURE CHANGE

THE BIG IDEA: Cura took on the major challenge in senior care with this comprehensive program that provides the steps and information needed for a facility to transition its dining and hospitality services from a medical model to an individualized and social model that creates a home-like environment for residents while also improving staff satisfaction at the same time.