The 2013 BC Foodservice Expo, Western Canada’s largest hospitality trade show, returns to the Vancouver Convention Centre this weekend – January 27 & 28.
Avoid line ups and register online at www.bcfoodexpo.ca for just $20!
ROASTED COMPETITION – Meet the top 8 Competitors
The Roasted Competition is our professional chef challenge. Competitors work in restaurants across the province and pursue professional challenges as ways of bettering their skills in the kitchen. New this year: the winner will proceed to Edmonton to be part of the CCFCC National Convention representing BC in June.
- Jeffrey Kelland – Six Mile Pub – Victoria
- Katherine Mueller – Aura – Victoria
- Keith Pears – Delta/Ebo – Burnaby
- Nathan Wright – Anduccis Catering Company – North Vancouver
- Romeo Oloresisimo – Prestons – Kamloops
- Ross Edward Derrick – Delta Grand Okanagan – Kelowna
- Tyler Leeson – RaudZ Regional Table – Kelowna
- William Tse – Sandbar Seafood Restaurant – Vancouver
SEMINAR PROFILE
Looking for a reason to attend? Check out our free seminar program designed to provide informative and entertaining programming to help you build your business in 2013!
Featured seminar:
Monday, January 28 – 11:30 am
Informed Dining – Providing Nutritional Information for your Customers
Savvy customers are looking for nutrition information – but how do you deliver without intimidating everyone else? Developed by the Province in collaboration with the Heart and Stroke Foundation, BCRFA and CRFA, the Informed Dining program offers real and manageable ways to provide Nutrition Information. Participating restaurateurs representing a cross section of the industry will share their experience participating in the program and be available for questions and discussion with the audience on how your business can participate. Featuring: Liz da Mata – The Reef Restaurant, Dave Burns – A & W, Kelly Gordon – The Boathouse
Restaurant owners and operators looking for new technology solutions to manage both front and back of the house operations will find them at the i.Menu Expo. Hosted in partnership with i.Business Magazine, the i.Menu Expo will showcase developers of iPad and Android tablet apps and interactive touchscreen tabletops. Accessory manufacturers and hardware vendors will demonstrate the latest menu and back-end office solutions, including cost-effective ways to improve productivity and bottom lines.
LOCAL CELEBRITY CHEF HOST PROFILE – John Bishop
John Bishop’s love for cooking began when he was a child growing up in Newton Powys, Wales. Starting out by helping in his mother’s kitchen to eventually, as a young man, learning the formal requirements of traditional French food preparation at a hotel school.
After working as a chef in Great Britain, John moved to Vancouver in 1973. Shortly after arriving he began his career in Vancouver with local restaurateur Umberto Menghi – first as head chef then eventually becoming Maitre d’. At the urging of friends and investors during the recession of 1985, John opened Bishop’s.
Since then, Bishop’s has consistently been one of the city’s top restaurants. Annually, the restaurant receives top grades from local as well as all the respected North American guides.
John has authored four cookbooks: Bishop’s, Cooking at my House, Fresh and Simply Bishop’s. He is a past member of the CRFA Board of Directors.
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This is a trade only show: Admission is restricted to industry personnel only. No one under 19 years of age will be admitted. No infants or children please. Badges are non-transferable and non-refundable. Trade ID required.
