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Culinary Institute of America - "The Goldies" Awards

Culinary Institute of America "Goldies" Awards


The Culinary Institute of America and FoodService Director commissioned a set of unique custom awards from Bennett Awards. These custom trophies were selected for a new recognition awards program sponsored - The Goldies. The Goldies are a national achievement awards program that recognizes the achievements of Gold Standards in non-commercial food service. The Goldies provide non-commercial food service operations with an opportunity to showcase exceptional programs within their operations that have achieved Gold Standard quality.

These unique trophies were presented to recipients at the FoodService Directors Menu Directions Annual Conference, which was held February 27-March 1 in New Orleans.

Recognition trophies are awarded in five categories:
  • Going Green – operations embracing the ideas that support sustainability or environmental responsibility in a Gold Standard fashion
  • Focusing on the Guest – operations delivering Gold Standard outcomes to customer operationally, and keeping guests’ experience consistently at a level of excellence
  • Food Democracy – operations ensuring customers can get Gold Standard food as they want it, anytime and anywhere
  • Health and Wellness – operations addressing health and wellness, food allergies, or other dietary needs in a Gold Standard fashion
  • Financial Wizardry – operations meeting the Gold Standard of financial performance
For The Goldies, Bennett Awards designed a simple but distinctive and unique custom award design that featured a “golden egg”. The eggs were produced in gold-plated pewter, and mounted on black marble base. The marble bases were engraved on two sides. One side features the logos of The Culinary Institute of America and FoodService Director, and the other side featured the name of the award.