IFMA's 2023 Gold Plate Award Presented to Jessica Shelly
CHICAGO, May 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jessica Shelly, Director, Student Dining Services, Cincinnati Public Schools received the coveted 2023 Gold Plate Award from the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA) at the close of their 69th Annual Gold & Silver Plate Awards Celebration. Shelly was nominated in the "Elementary & Secondary Schools" category by P&G Professional and Nestlé Professional and selected from the nine honorees who took home 2023 Silver Plate awards.
- The International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA) presented food-away-from-home's highest honor, the Gold Plate Award, to Jessica Shelly of the Cincinnati Public Schools
CHICAGO, May 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jessica Shelly, Director, Student Dining Services, Cincinnati Public Schools received the coveted 2023 Gold Plate Award from the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA) at the close of their 69th Annual Gold & Silver Plate Awards Celebration. - Winners receive the Silver Plate Award and one is then chosen by secret ballot to receive the Gold Plate Award for overall industry excellence.
- IFMA's black-tie celebration for the 2023 Silver Plate Class and presentation of the Gold Plate Award was held at the historic Chicago Union Station Great Hall on Saturday, May 20.
- The event was emceed by past award winner, Regynald Washington (Gold Plate honoree, 2019), and attended by several hundred food-away-from-home leaders and luminaries.