National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation

Military Foodservice Awards
2022-05-20 08:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Palmer House Hilton, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, United States
Military Foodservice Awards

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The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation will again recognize excellence in military foodservice through evaluations, recognition, and training. To mark their momentous accomplishments, the Foundation will host a virtual celebration for 2021.
Join us on Facebook Live – June 9, 6:30pm EDT – for highlights from the traveler’s program and base evaluations, announcements and recognition of each winning base, and messages from supporters and military leadership.

RSVP and attend the live event on Facebook

Watch the 2020 recording here

More About The Event

For more than 60 years, the National Restaurant Association and National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation have recognized excellence in military foodservice through evaluations, recognition, and training. Branches send winners from around the world to Chicago to receive awards for best-in-class food quality, food safety, cost effectiveness and efficiency.
While the 2020 Military Foodservice Awards Dinner, originally scheduled for May 15, was cancelled due to COVID-19, the Foundation recognized the importance of celebrating this year’s award winners, representing all branches of the military.
To mark their momentous accomplishments, the Foundation hosted a virtual celebration. The program included an introduction to the NRAEF Military Program and Military Foodservice Awards, highlights from the traveler’s program and base evaluations, announcements and recognition of each winning base, and messages from supporters, military leadership and more!

Military Foodservice Awards Dinner Sponsorship Opportunities
Elevate your brand, company mission, and goals by supporting those who enhance the quality of life for those who serve.

To get involved

Typically held during the annual National Restaurant Association Show, individuals and teams from all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces are honored at the Military Foodservice Awards Dinner and ceremony. Awardees are recognized for their commitment to foodservice excellence in management effectiveness, force readiness support, food quality, employee and customer relations, resource conservation, and training and safety awareness.

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National ProStart Invitational
2022-05-06 - 2022-05-08 | Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, WA, 20009, United States
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NPSI 2022!
After two years, the National ProStart Invitational returned, live and in person!
May 6 – 8, 2022Washington Hilton1919 Connecticut Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20009

Read about the NPSI 2022 Results
Watch the 2022 NPSI Video Recap
Watch the Awards Gala Recorded on Vimeo
Watch the Opening Ceremonies Recorded on Facebook

The National ProStart Invitational® (NPSI) is the country’s premier secondary school competition focused on restaurant management and culinary arts. Annually, nearly 400 student competitors put their skills to the test in front of industry leaders, NRAEF Trustees, state restaurant associations, and family and friends – all with hopes of earning coveted scholarships from the nation’s best culinary and restaurant management programs.

How The Competition Works
Students must impress judges from leading industry corporations, colleges and universities with skills they’ve developed through ProStart. The National ProStart Invitational is composed of two distinct competitions – management and culinary.

Management
Management teams develop a proposal for the next promising restaurant concept and present it to a panel of industry judges. Their problem solving skills are tested as they quickly solve challenges faced by managers daily.

Culinary
The culinary competition highlights each team’s creative abilities through the preparation of a three-course meal in 60 minutes, using only two butane burners, and without access to running water or electricity. Students are evaluated on taste, skill, teamwork, safety and sanitation.

2022 Rules And Regulations

What Do You Win?
The top five teams from the culinary and management competitions are awarded generous educational scholarships to help further their careers in the restaurant and foodservice industry. In 2022, more than $200,000 in scholarships were awarded to winning students.
All competitors are encouraged to take full advantage of competing at the National ProStart Invitational by networking with other students and industry professionals in attendance.

See 2022 Winners & Highlights Here

NPSI 2023 Sponsorship Opportunities
Elevate your brand, company mission, and organizational goals to an audience of fellow industry executives and the best of the restaurant industry’s next generation.
Email us: partnerships@nraef.org

Have Questions?
If you are an educator, mentor, chaperone, parent or school administrator, please contact yourProStart State Coordinator with questions.
Go to Coordinators page
If you are a judge, development guest, board member, exhibitor, post-secondary school, or SRA rep, please direct questions to your NRAEF contact or prostart@nraef.org.
