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Introducing the winning ThinkCulinary dish from the Culinary Cocktail Clash! The team at BJ's Restaurants, Inc. served up the delicious "Korean Style Iberico Pork Coppa Carnitas" All teams had to use one of these proteins from ThinkCulinary: 🔥 Pure Black Barley Fed Angus Flap Meat 🔥 Gundagai GLQ5 Australian Lamb Striploin 🔥 Campo Grande Ibérico Pork Coppa 📸 Svante Johansson Benjamin Udave

Celebrating these star students ✨ 🏆 Areceli from Leuzinger High School took home the inaugural "Sysco Star Student Award" for best presentation to the Culinary Clash judges 🏆 And Trinity from Orange County School of the Arts nominated her team from Lawry's Restaurants Inc. to receive the "Clash Mentor Award" Way to go Areceli and Trinity!

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Celebrating our newest Culinary Cocktail Clash team: The Cheesecake Factory! Their R D team came out swinging! They took home "Judge's Choice" 🏆 "Best Station Set Up" 🏆 AND "Coca-Cola Champ" 🏆 Congrats Cheesecake Factory team and Ana from Pacifica High School for an incredible first menu.

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When you need to make a trophy for the "Flavor Award" 😆 😂 Congratulations to Wedgewood Weddings & Events (culinary) and Outback Steakhouse (cocktail) for the best use of the The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley product! Loving the energy Juan J. Sanjuan III!

Clash photos are here 📸 🎉 . . . Visit https://lnkd.in/gYTBdRhR to see all the fun!

Thank you to our incredible 2024 Cocktail Clash judges 🍸 They judged 18 cocktail entries featuring Tito's Handmade Vodka and #LaMarca Prosecco. Cheers to that! Kathie Kennedy, Teodoro Protano, Salvador Falcon, Sharlene Rojas, Chris Myers, Kim Hulse, Priscila Hammett

Yet another way to advance our industry! If you have a young chef or waiter on your team, encourage them to apply for this competition. They'll have the chance to represent team USA at the international competition in #Singapore Thanks to our board member Shaun Beard at ASM Global for being such an advocate for this and many other hospitality programs!

Thank you to our incredible 2024 Culinary Clash judges! They sampled bites from 10 restaurant teams. It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it 😆 Matt Garcia, Benjamin Udave, Sarah S., Juan J. Sanjuan III, Steven Mary, Matthew Coston, Barbra Harmer, Nicco Mouleart