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ACF AZ June 3, 2103 Meeting at Estrella Mountain Community College

May 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I would like to invite you to Estrella Moun­tain Com­mu­nity Col­lege on Mon­day, June 3rd, at 5pm for the monthly meet­ing of the ACF Chef’s Asso­ci­a­tion of Ari­zona. The Culi­nary Pro­gram at EMCC will be host­ing the meet­ing, and there will be an ice sculp­ture demon­stra­tion along with food.

If you are not a mem­ber of the ACF, but would like more infor­ma­tion on mem­ber­ship, join us for the meet­ing, and bring your col­leagues. More infor­ma­tion on the chap­ter and events can be found at: http://acfaz.org/

I have include a link for a map of our cam­pus here: http://www.estrellamountain.edu/sites/default/site-images/maps/campus-map.pdf We will be meet­ing in Regions Restau­rant in Komatke Hall build­ing C and you can also find it on our map above. Park­ing is eas­i­est in lot CW and CE off Thomas Road and Dysart Road.

Steve Grif­fiths,
Pro­gram Direc­tor
Estrella Moun­tain Com­mu­nity College

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ACF AZ Capistrano’s Bakery Tour & BBQ

May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment

A lit­tle bit about Capistrano’s from Kim Sher­wood [Read more..] and the meet­ing details.

Date & Time: May 6th, ACF AZ Board meets, 3:30 PM. Gen­eral meet­ing 5 –7 PM.
Loca­tion: Capistrano’s Bak­ery 2635 S 24th Street Phoenix, AZ 85034
Details: Brief intro­duc­tion, bak­ery tour, and BBQ in the park­ing lot.
Bring: Busi­ness Cards, bring oth­ers, infor­ma­tion about com­mu­nity, events, prod­ucts, services.

No charge, open to our food­ies and food ser­vice com­mu­nity to net­work and connect.

Jennie-O Turkey, KC Mas­ter Piece BBQ Sauce, Capistrano’s Bak­ery Breads, com­pound but­ters and Minor’s, bread pud­ding, Sim­plot Corn on the Cob and more.

BBQ Grill Fundraiser. Pur­chase tick­ets to win when you arrive, pro­ceeds to our Junior Chap­ter of the ACF AZ.

Tee-Shirt Fundraiser, Check out our fundrais­ing shirts, fun shirt. Buy a shirt at the meet­ing for $25.00, and please bring cash. Next shirt idea stu­dent drive. Thank you in advance for your support!

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Capistrano’s Bakery

May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Capistrano's Bakery

Capistrano's BakerySince open­ing our doors in 1975, Capistrano’s Bak­ery has grown from a small Ital­ian Bak­ery into a promi­nent whole­sale bak­ery in the Phoenix area. We presently sup­ply hun­dreds of cus­tomers valley-wide with over 200 freshly baked prod­ucts. Our prod­ucts are baked and deliv­ered fresh daily. We deliver buns and rolls, bagels, crois­sants, loaf breads, arti­san breads and spe­cialty items to an array of customers.

Some of our fresh baked prod­ucts are sig­na­ture items that we have devel­oped espe­cially for our cus­tomers. We lis­ten to your needs and attempt to pro­vide you with prod­ucts that fit your busi­ness style. We believe that input from our cus­tomers is an impor­tant fac­tor in pro­vid­ing the high­est qual­ity prod­uct avail­able to our clients and the Phoenix area consumer.

Our new loca­tion at 2635 S 24th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034 – just south of the Sky Har­bor Air­port is a 38,000 square foot loca­tion that houses advanced and auto­mated sys­tems to make us faster, con­sis­tent and more pro­duc­tive while keep­ing our prod­ucts at the high­est stan­dards set by our customers.

As always thank you for your con­tin­ued sup­port and we look for­ward to your future needs.

Kim Sher­wood
Account Exec­u­tive | Capistrano’s Bak­ery, LLC
2635 South 24th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85034
602.510.9682 – Cell
ksherwood@capistranosbakery.net

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Gate to Plate, Arizona Beef Council Tour

May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Much to recap from our Gate to Plate Tour with the Ari­zona Beef Coun­cil and will post more for next weeks Culi­nary Notes. For now, you can view some of the pho­tos from the day.

Lot’s of great resources avail­able just not enough time to post is all in this weeks newsletter.

Here’s a link to our photo stream on Flikr and you can view more and fol­low the dia­log at the Face­book page for the ACF AZ.

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Live Streaming

April 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
lcbbanner

lcbbannerMys­tery Box Chal­lenge! stream­ing from our cam­pus in Scotts­dale, AZ Watch the Chefs cook and pick up some cool tips. Ask the Chefs your ques­tions in Real Time via Chat. Inter­act with other view­ers. Stream­ing Live here. 

For the ACF AZ we have wanted to do that some time and look­ing for some help to do it. From any smart­phone or tablet, we also have have these tools avail­able to do this, we just need some­one who would be able to help at our meet­ings to cap­ture the event.

Please con­tact Madonna Kash to learn more.  Madonna@acfaz.org

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Culinary & Pastry Career Fair, Le Cordon Bleu Scottsdale, AZ Campus

April 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
LCB Career Fair

The Culi­nary & Pas­try Career Fair was held on Thurs­day, April 11, 2013 from 9:00AM – 1:00PM at Le Cor­don Bleu Col­lege of Culi­nary Arts Sky­bridge cam­pus where I met with chefs, Culi­nary Spe­cial­ists, Owners.Operators, and Human Resource Direc­tors all inter­ested in hir­ing their next culi­nary rock star.

LCB Career Fair

Fan­tas­tic net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and such great rela­tion­ships for the ACF AZ to develop and sup­port. If you see a job post­ing from these oper­a­tors shar­ing it with your culi­nary peers.

Look­ing for­ward to pro­vid­ing more infor­ma­tion from these employ­ers but first I need to do that fol­low up from this event.

Here are some of the employ­ers I met with:
HMS Host
Lit­tle Amer­i­can
Hill­stone Restau­rant Group
The Buttes Resort
Grand Canyon For­ever
Bour­bon Street Bar & BBQ
Troon
Enchant­ment Resort
Scotts­dale Health­care
Fox Restau­rant Concepts

LCB Career Fair

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ACF AZ May 6th Meeting

April 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Burger Battle 2013 Judges. Robert McGrath, Jamie Paenque, Steven Amine, Robert DeSantis.

The next ACF AZ Meet­ing is May 6th at Capistrano’s Bak­ery for a bak­ery tour and BBQ. Jennie’O is pro­vid­ing turkey burg­ers and Capistrano’s is sup­ply­ing the breads of course. June is Turkey Month good time of the year to take a closer look at your turkey offerings.

At the Burger Bat­tle April 11th, Jennie’O rep­re­sen­ta­tive Scott Smith served health­ier options as a spon­sor for the event with Turkey Tacos and Turkey Slid­ers. Among all the options avail­able at this event from local restau­rants, Jennie’O held their own with ser­vic­ing cus­tomers needs for alter­na­tives to beef.

Jennie'O Turkey

Check out the pho­tos and the fol­low up arti­cles writ­ten about the event here. Chef Robert DeSan­tis of Points West Food Ser­vice and ACF AZ Chef was a judge for the event. You can see here he was among great com­pany dur­ing this event.

Burger Battle 2013 Judges. Robert McGrath, Jamie Paenque, Steven Amine, Robert DeSantis.

Burger Bat­tle 2013 Judges. Robert McGrath, Jamie Paenque, Steven Amine, Robert DeSantis.

Join us on May 6th to see prod­uct offer­ings from Capistrano’s Bak­ery to see how they’re pro­duced and dis­trib­uted. Learn more about what this local bread man­u­fac­turer has to offer.

If you have prod­ucts that work with a BBQ you are wel­comed to bring them. In need of BBQ Sauce, salad and sides which we’re work­ing on. Inter­ested in show­ing your prod­uct please con­tact Madonna Kash at Madonna@acfaz.org.

Burger Battle Judges

This years Judges win­ner was Zin­burger and El Hefe Super Macho Teque­ria won People’s Choice.

Phoenix New Times Shan­non Armour’s recap

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Our Thoughts and Prayers

April 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

What a hard week for our coun­try. The Boston Bomb­ings, the Resin mail­ings, the West, Texas explo­sion and with­out a doubt, many other tragedies and atroc­i­ties that we haven’t seen in the main stream media.

We needed to acknowl­edge these events yet offer no relief to those directly affected by these events out­side of our kinds words and our empa­thy. With much emo­tions and lim­ited words to express them, think­ing of all the vic­tims of these events and those that are able to help them through these try­ing times.

For food ser­vice pro­fes­sion­als, serv­ing oth­ers is some­thing we enjoy, it’s our nature. Shar­ing expe­ri­ences through food. With­out get­ting too emo­tional or too emo­tion­less, pos­i­tive thoughts to all and for those food ser­vice work­ers on the front lines of these events. You may never know when your ser­vice can for even just a moment, ease someone’s suffering.

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Beef Webinar: Beef Market Update and Marketing Programs to Boost Sales

April 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Good After­noon Retail and Food­ser­vice Partners,

I would like to invite you to par­tic­i­pate in an upcom­ing webi­nar next Wednes­day, April 10th at 9:00 AM (PST) that will pro­vide you with an update on beef mar­ket con­di­tions from indus­try experts. You will receive up-to-date infor­ma­tion about the beef mar­ket and its impact on busi­ness; you will hear from a beef pro­ducer and learn how he is respond­ing to mar­ket con­di­tions and con­tin­u­ing to sup­ply qual­ity beef; and you will have a chance to learn about use­ful tools avail­able today to extend your beef pro­mo­tions and programs.

It’s FREE!

Please pre-register, using the link below, to reserve your space. It will allow you to put this webi­nar on your out­look cal­en­dar. Space is lim­ited, so reg­is­ter today!

Beef Mar­ket Update and Tools to Extend Your Beef Pro­mo­tions
Date: Wednes­day, April 10, 2013
Time: 9:00 am PST (45 min­utes)
Call in num­ber for audio:1–866-365‑4406
Access code: 8503313#
Webi­nar URL (to reg­is­ter and to watch): https://cc.callinfo.com/r/1i0w7t18d1ug3

Agenda
•Set­ting the stage — Jim Ethridge, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Account Devel­op­ment B2B Mar­ket­ing
•State of the beef indus­try — Mike Miller, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent, Mar­ket­ing and Research
•Con­sumer insights — John Lun­deen, Senior Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Mar­ket Research
•Producer’s response to mar­ket con­di­tions — USA rancher
•Mar­ket­ing pro­grams to boost beef menu and retail sales — B2B Mar­ket­ing team
•Key take­aways and Q&A
Please let me know if you have any ques­tions and I hope you can join us!

Thank you,

Lau­ren Scheller
lscheller@arizonabeef.org
602–273-7163
Ari­zona Beef Coun­cil
Direc­tor of Con­sumer Mar­ket­ing and Pub­lic Relations

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Culinary/Pastry Career Fair

April 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

CULINARY / PASTRY CAREER FAIR
Thurs­day, April 11, 2013 9:00AM – 1:00PM
Set up at 8:00AM

LCB Scotts­dale, AZ Campus

Recruit for your cur­rent Externship/Employment
oppor­tu­ni­ties for all your Culinary/Pastry Posi­tions.
What to Bring: Pro­mo­tional Mate­ri­als, Job Post­ings, etc.

What to Wear: Busi­ness Casual, Chef Coat/Uniform, etc.
Cost: FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING, FREE BREAKFAST
Loca­tion: 4301 N. Scotts­dale RD., Scotts­dale, AZ, 85251
RSVP BY: Fri­day, March 15th, 2013
Email Career Ser­vices: Marsha.Jensen@Scottsdale.Chefs.Edu

(WE SUPPLY, TABLE, LINEN and CHAIRS)

PDF Flyer

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