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Nourishing Young MindFCSI Worldwide presents the "FCSI Green Award" to Kendall CollegeKendall College was presented with the Foodservice Consultants Society International (FCSI) Green Award during the FCSI North American Conference Awards Banquet held October 9, 2007 at the Omni CNN Center Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The FCSI Green Award was created several years ago to recognize and applaud exemplary efforts in ecology and environmentally sensitive hospitality operations. The award honors a firm or individual in the foodservice and hospitality industry that has created an innovative environmental operation or product that has improved the environmental standards and conditions of the operation or industry as a whole. "We at Kendall feel that we have a responsibility to our students to teach them about the many issues that comprise a socially conscious and green viewpoint. We also believe that our responsibility is to model green practices to our students and the larger foodservice community." says Christopher Koetke, Kendall College dean of culinary arts. "Being awarded the FCSI green award was an amazing honor for everyone here at Kendall…..in our view, having a green agenda is a process-it is not getting to a point where you can sit back and say, "Done." "
Kendall College has been in existence for 73 years and the School of Culinary Arts has existed for the last 22 years. The College's mission is focused on educating the next generation of industry professionals. They view their product as the alumni who are equipped to positively impact the foodservice industry in the future. FCSI Worldwide Executive Director Scott Legge added "The approach being taken by Dean Koetke and his faculty at Kendall College was deemed particularly important by the FCSI Board of Directors because of the focus on heightening environmental awareness in our industry's future leaders."
For the last 3 years, the College has increasingly been considering the negative impact that foodservice has on the environment globally. Current programs include:
"Kendall is committed to building a 'green culture' in every facet of the college -- from academia through administration," says President Nivine Megahed. "We want to weave a respect for sustainability across the entire spectrum and graduate individuals who will lead similar initiatives in their prospective places of employment." FCSI believes that this environmentally sensitive approach to teaching the future leaders of our industry needs to be applauded and encouraged. Dean of the School of Culinary Arts, Chef Christopher Koetke, accepted the award on behalf of Kendall College and noted that this recognition will help to motivate and encourage even greater efforts toward environmentally conscious sustainability.
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