It could also help community businesses like caterers, so there would be a multiplier effect".
When customers can fulfill this need and at the same time, believe that they are making a difference in their community, the choice of caterers becomes obvious.
Previous winners include cheesemongers, cheesemakers, food writers, dinner ladies, chip shops, broadcasters and campaigners, fish smokers, farmers markets, dairy farmers, butchers, bakers, community food shops and hospital caterers.
Thompson & Bender's services range from handling community relations to finding the right caterer for a grand opening party.
What started out as a marketing tool for a few Encino restaurants and caterers has become a community event that, while still showcasing restaurants, now benefits local schools, said Pam Campeau, chamber chief executive officer.
The invitation announced that the main speakers would be Donald Tricarico, a sociologist from Queensborough Community College, and John DeCarlo, a freelance writer, caterer and self-professed Guido from New Jersey, initially raising the question of whether the Institute was presenting a version of Margaret Mead and one of the Samoans.
Alpine Catering, a full service caterer.
Common uses include buying program ads or tickets to community group events; frequently money goes to caterers and to consultants.
With her studio close to the climbing centre, Rose wants to keep things in her community, using a local roti restaurant as caterers.
She married a co-worker and when the restaurant closed in 1949, they became caterers to the Syrian Jewish community as it moved from the Lower East Side to Brooklyn.
Her dissertation, "Gastronomic Alchemy: How Black Philadelphia Caterers Transformed Taste into Capital, 1790 to 1925," explores everyday life and resistance, class and community formation through the history of the black catering business in Philadelphia.
