Black Hat Chefs In the News

Black Hat Chefs in Food MANAGEMENT Magazine

Check out this great article about the importance of chefs in non-commercial kitchens. Black hat Chefs were mentioned.

http://food-management.com/colleges-amp-universities/big-chef-balancing-act?page=2.

Chef mcgrody and the black hat chefs on interviewing chefs

Check out how the Black Hat Chefs hire new sous chefs and executive chefs.This was featured in an article in Food Service Management magazine. Thanks Tara for you work on this!

http://food-management.com/human-resources/interview-questions-exec-chef-position

Check out the black Hat chefs in the USA today

Check out this great article about the UNC System

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2013/June/24/better-hospital-food-federal-health-law.aspx

Black Hat Chefs begin afternoon tea service

Black hat Chefs now serving "Afternoon tea" to their patients. Check out the story from the News and Observer
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/12/26/2567317/rex-hospital-now-offering-afternoon.html

Black Hat Chefs win gold medal

Chef Ryan Conklin and Tyran Lawson competed in a national culinary competition. They beat 4 other hospitals (selected from hospitals all over the US) in a nail biting competition. The outcome was we won the gold and now have bragging rights as the best hospital food in the country.

Chef Ryan and Tyran

Our Chefs at the awards banquet getting their medals!

Black Hat Chefs make GQ magazine

Chef Jim McGrody and Rex Hospital's Black Hat Chefs are featured in GQ magazine as one of the best places to eat.
This link is from our local radio station 100.7 The River
http://www.riverraleigh.com/pages/kitty.html/?article=10223040

Gold Medal Awarded

Black Hat Chefs Win American Culinary Federation Gold Medal. This was a state wide hospital competition . We competed in the North Carolina Prevention Partners culinary competition at Johnson and Wales university. We took on Sodexo, Aramark, Morrisons and a few other self-op hospitals. We were the only ones to get gold, beating all competitors. Celebrity Chef Alton Brown from the Food Network was on hand to award the medals.

Black Hats Win Silver

The Black Hat Chefs Win Silver Medal. We traveled out to Phoenix and took on some pretty talented teams. This nationwide competition was held by the Association for Healthcare Foodservices. Chef Ryan Conklin developed this recipe as an off shoot to our very popular cafe menu item. We sell this Korean favorite in our cafes. This upscale version won silver!

Food Service Director of the Month

Chef Jim McGrody was named Food Service Director of the Month in May 2010. This prestigious award is given by Food Service Director Magazine. Candidates are chosen form all industry business sectors such as health care, B&I, Colleges and Universities and k-12 Schools. It is quite an honor to be selected from this large and talented group of people. Read more by clicking HERE.

Black Hat Chefs Go Back to High School!

Black Hat Chefs went to East Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill NC. Our goal was to teach high school students about whole grains. We served our signature wheatberry chili to them. They loved it. It was a fun experience for all of us. We teamed up with Chef Ryan McGuire from Chartwells. Chef Ryan is the Executive chef for the Chapel Hill/ Carrboro NC school system. Click HERE for more...

Link to Chef McGrody's book What We Feed Our Patients

Black Hat Chefs were featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal.. what an honor. Check out the link below to read the story

http://online.wsj.com/articleB10001424052970204642604577213390021632180.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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