A distinct trend seems to be developing among winners of Nation’s Restaurant News’ annual MenuMasters awards: It’s leading to a fantastic understanding.
During the 2013 MenuMasters event at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Cleveland-based chef Jonathon Sawyer accepted his Innovator of the Year honor in special beaded footwear designed by Donald J. Pliner.
And during Saturday night’s 2014 event, the team from Wendy’s matched Sawyer’s fashion-forward gesture step for step.
Nearly every member of the 10-person Wendy’s team, who won a 2014 MenuMasters Best Limited-Time Offer honor for the Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger, was shod in red kicks of some sort. What made it so fashionable was the non-matchy-matchy effort.
So my hat is off for the footwear choices of the Wendy's folks: Alyssa Bault, Eryn Bennett, Bill Dotzauer, Lori Estrada, Emily Heller, Nancy Kanis, Steve Min, Lynn Smith, Shelly Thobe and Jack Volpi.
You have put your best feet forward.
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