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Smart Moves: Food and Beverage

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Hanif Mohammad Mohammad is executive chef for TownePlace Suites Nashville Downtown/Capitol District in Tennessee. David Patterson Patterson is vice president of food and beverage at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Jerry Perez Kimpton The Rowan Palm Springs in California named Perez director of food and beverage.

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Smart Moves: Food and Beverage

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Hanif Mohammad Mohammad is executive chef for TownePlace Suites Nashville Downtown/Capitol District in Tennessee. David Patterson Patterson is vice president of food and beverage at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Jerry Perez Kimpton The Rowan Palm Springs in California named Perez director of food and beverage.

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Best of 2022: Food and Beverage

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This year, hotel food and beverage departments as well as catering outlets and F&B in conference and exhibition centers struggled to catch up to post-Covid pent up demand as well as to what is now called “accommodation cuisine.” Our January 2022 feature on catering trends saw locally-sourced foods as a major player.

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Drew is now area hotel manager of the recently opened Caption by Hyatt Beale Street Memphis , and Hyatt Centric Beale Street Memphis in Tennessee. Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp in Tennessee appointed Canaday director of national accounts. The post Smart Moves in Tennessee, D.C. Derek Douglass Drew. Mark Goeman.

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Before working in sales and marketing, he spent 15 years in food and beverage roles with Hyatt. Acevedo is the first-ever chief operating officer for live event company Streamline Event Agency in Franklin, Tennessee. Big Cypress Lodge in Memphis, Tennessee, named Scott hotel manager. Rachel O’Neill-Cusey.

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Lacassagne began his career as an assistant food & beverage manager at Hotel Concorde Montparnasse in France and continued to work in various F&B roles through Egypt, Morocco and the Caribbean. He has worked with the Shashi Group since 2019, first as director of food and beverage.

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Heu is now area director of food and beverage for Highgate Hotels Hawaii. Smith has also been assistant general manager and director of food and beverage at The Inn at Hastings Park in Lexington, Massachusetts, and director of service at The Hammond Kitchen and Craft Bar in Camas, Washington, her most recent position.