Join us for our 3rd Annual ICCA & GCIA Virtual Holiday Party on December 6th from 4:00 – 5:00 pm EST. Save the date on your calendar and rsvp to rsvp@ICCAchefs.com to receive a holiday gift package from our ICCA sponsors. In the past two years, we have as many as 80 members and sponsors attend this unique networking activity. We bring everyone on live to toast, cheers or offer a special holiday message to your friends and business acquaintances you have made over the years with the ICCA. Some of the ICCA sponsors will be sending you a special holiday gift and remember 2023 is our special 20th Anniversary featuring our ICCA Summit in San Antonio in June. Details and dates for all events are on our homepage and events section of this website.
If you have something you would like to share with our members and sponsors regarding something new you are doing now, please email Kevin Ryan at Kevin@ICCAchefs.com
You must register for this webinar series by the link below. Once you register, you are registered for the entire series.
Our next webinar is our 3rd Annual Virtual Holiday Party on December 6th from 4:00 – 5:00 pm EST:
Register for the new ICCA Webinar Series by using this link.
Here is the video from our last educational webinar with plant based new menu insights from Claire Conaghan, associate director at Datassential plus an introduction of Amber Johnson, director of marketing and communications for Lentils.org, our newest sponsor. Here is Claire’s Datassential presentation: Claire Conaghan Lentils Building Blocks for ICCA and Amber Johnson’s Lentils presentation: Lentils.org ICCA.GCIA Webinar Presentation Jeff Miller, national account consultant for Lentils.org also added to the presentation. They are an organization that is actively working to increase the awareness and consumption of lentils in North America. With a specific focus on the foodservice industry and working with the innovative thought leaders in the commercial foodservice sector, Lentils.org looks forward to working with you to advance menu innovation using lentils as your go-to source of plant protein on your menus. Lentils are an affordable ingredient tool to carry global flavors while promoting health-forward tactics across the menu and dayparts, capitalizing on current and emerging consumer trends.
Watch our video for the October 4th webinar that featured trends in cheese on the menu. We had four amazing cheese experts from Wisconsin who shared creative new applications of cheese products. We also had Gerald Oksanen, research and insights manager from Datassential who presented new trends in cheese purchasing by restaurant consumers. Below are the PowerPoints from the webinar and the video of the webinar:
Datassential Cheese Trend slides
Winona Foods Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin slides 2022
Be sure to watch our latest video below from the August 2022 webinar. Our new ICCA & GCIA Webinar was on August 2nd and featured Chef Danial Asher, award winning chef and a friend who has dazzled our ICCA members in the past and will be a part of our GCIA Culinary Connection Denver in August. Chef Asher helped to create a series of videos for Potatoes USA’s Potato University and talked with us about eliminating food waste, a very important subject with food costs continuing to rise. RJ Harvey and the team at Potatoes USA also played a major role in this webinar along with another major trend expert from Datassential Marie Molde.
Here is a video from our last webinar in our new GCIA & ICCA webinar series. It was on Tuesday, June 7th and feature creative sauces using blueberries, plus an inspiring Fruit on the menu trend presentation from Claire Conoghan, associate director content for Datassential. Christie Wood and Chef Daniel Carpenter will share some fun facts about blueberries along with some recent foodservice patron research about how and when consumers would like to see blueberries on menus. From sweet to savory and everything in between, you’ll see some truly creative ideas that you won’t want to miss!
Our next to the last webinar series was on Tuesday, May 3rd and included Kat Shear from Datassential to discuss ethnic treads and seasonal flavors. Following Kat’s presentation, Janet Armstrong with Mars Foodservice will demonstrate two dishes that showcase seasonal flavors with their labor-saving Ben’s Original Ready Rice for Risotto.
Also, numerous ICCA and GCIA members and sponsors were live and involved in the conversational dialogue in this new format for our 2022 webinar series.