April 2022 Edition

At the close of the Show, City Harvest, the world’s first food rescue organization dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women, and children, were able to rescue 8,000 pounds of food. The 2023 International Restaurant & Foodservice Show and Coffee Fest New York will be held March 5-7, 2023, at the Javits Center in New York City. The International Restaurant &FoodserviceShowof New York (www.internationalrestaurantny.com) has provided thousands of industry professionals with access to the hottest menu trends, state of the art design and decor, a renowned education program, special events, and hundreds of leading vendors and purveyors dedicated to serving the restaurant and foodservice community, since 1993. The show is produced in partnership with the New York State Restaurant Association (www.nysra.org) About Coffee Fest: Coffee Fest is a trade-only event serving the specialty coffee and gourmet tea industries since 1992. Coffee Fest draws more than 10,000 attendees, exhibitors and competitors a year, connecting regional coffee communities through regional tradeshow events especially designed for specialty coffee and tea professionals. For more details about Coffee Fest, to see the winners of Coffee Fest competitions and much more, visit www.coffeefest.com. n

Center Stage, included culinary demonstrations by Chef Jonathan Scinto, Chef Mareya Ibrahim, Chef Jehangir Mehta, Chef Stephen Yen, Chef Maria Loi, Chef Gennaro Pecchia, Chef Anita Lo and Chef Millie Peartree. The winner of the Rapid Fire Challenge: Plant Based Edition was chef Reinhold Teuscher of CRCS Culinary Solutions who won $1,000 for his Bami vegetable feast. The event was sponsored and moderated by Total Foodservice. The winner for the Hip Sip: Battle of the Modern Bartender Competition – Cocktails & Coffee was Kristo Tomingas of Butterfly Cocktail Catering. He beat out 4 other competitors with his drink, a cappuccino martini, and won $1,000 for the most creative and inventive mix of cocktail and coffee. The Food & Beverage Academy expanded to offer workshops, including the New York Seafood Summit, Urban Aquponics, Building a Better Future with Lessons Learned During the Pandemic (a keynote presentation by the NYSRA), a food and beverage trends presentation, and dozens of sessions delivered by subject matter experts who spoke on a variety of important topics for restaurant and foodservice professionals, coffee shop owners and those involved with healthy foods.