Past Events

Webinar: Foodservice 101
Wednesday March 4th, 2020
12:30pm – 1:30pm CT

As facility leaders, your areas of responsibility are vast. Now, more than ever, workplace amenities are critical to attracting and retaining a competitive workforce. In conjunction with other tasks, onsite foodservice may be an area where FM’s are asked to manage. This webinar is intended to provide insight to the complicated world of foodservice. This session will address challenges and offer solutions to the daily issues of managing your onsite food program. Specifically, this session will address these key objectives:

Reasons for providing onsite foodservice
ROI of foodservice and how it affects employee productivity and the workplace experience
How to choose the right foodservice partner to operate your program

BIO: Presented By: Russ Benson, FMP
After graduating from Johnson & Wales University with multiple degrees in Culinary Arts and Food Service Management, Russ worked in the hotel industry for 5 years, primarily at the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago in various department head positions.

The last 25 years of Russ’ career has been in corporate dining where, for 10 years, he was a senior member of the MBNA America client liaison team managing over $40M in café and catering volume. For the last 7 years, Russ has been an industry leading foodservice MAS consultant where he has led dozens of foodservice projects – most notably, as the lead advisor and interim client liaison for Amazon’s rapidly growing onsite foodservice program in Seattle. Russ is Founder & CEO of DayOne Hospitality Consulting.

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Oct. 16 – 18, 2019
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

World FM Day is an annual opportunity to recognize the vital work that facility management professionals and the FM industry contribute to business worldwide. World FM Day 2019 is on May 15, with celebrations held throughout the week of May 13-17.