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2003 Convention in
Boston
We had a fantastic conclusion to
our convention in Boston, MA at the Personal Chefs Network Golden Whisk
Awards Breakfast! We are honored to host this annual event at PCN and are
thankful for each member that was able to attend personally. These awards
were voted on by your colleagues at PCN and the Network Advisory Council. We
are proud that we have such outstanding people at PCN, and each of our
winners should be especially proud to have been selected by their peers!
Each winner received a beautiful plaque with their engraved name and award
name complete with a golden whisk and a small Lodge iron skillet attached.
Additionally, the top award winners received gifts from select vendors in the
culinary industry.
And the awards go to....
*MOST ENTERTAINING FORUM POSTER* ![[usy]](usy.gif)
**Runner Up**
Personal Chef BRENT EVANS, also from Ohio (Hilliard)! What's up with
you fellows from OH???
Join us as we congratulate Personal Chef DENNY WILHELM from Toledo,
Ohio, as he was chosen for this dubious award from his peers.
*BEST CHEF WEBSITE*
**Honorable Mention**
Personal Chef CINDY SMITH
Tasteful Matters/Raleigh, NC
Tasteful Matters
**Runner-Up**
Personal Chef ALLISON COIA
Cook-a-Doodle-Doo/Aston, PC
Cook-A-Doodle-Doo
***Grand Prize***
Personal Chef DONYA JONES
At Your Door Gourmet/Austin, TX
*BEST MARKETING IDEA*
**Grand Prize**
Personal Chef TERRI BROWN
Terrific Temptation/San Antonio, TX
Terri inspired many PCN members this year as she suggested we participate as
a group in the COOK FOR THE CURE Project! This project has garnered PR for
many of those who participated, and press releases will be done soon from
Personal Chefs Network as this project is wrapped up. The final count is not
yet in, but our members raised in the neighborhood of $4000-$5000 for Cook
For The Cure, all because TERRI took the idea, threw it out there, and
coordinated the entire project. We plan to make this an annual event at PCN,
and we thank Terri for all her efforts and hard work during our first year of
participation. If you participated and have not yet sent out YOUR releases,
what are you waiting for???
*BEST MARKETING MATERIALS*
We had lots of beautiful marketing materials that were displayed during the
convention. The competition was STIFF! Thank you for those of you that
entered, especially those of you that entered that weren't able to attend.
Everyone bound their materials for display and the winner by majority vote
was...
Personal Chef MAGGI SMITH
The Kitchen Genie/Pasadena, MD
We were all inspired by Maggi's materials AND the fact that she also works
FULL TIME while maintaining NINE cheffing dates per month (even though no one
where she works has any idea!)
NEWBIE PERSONAL CHEF & PERSONAL CHEF OF THE YEAR
This is our FIRST *Newbie Personal Chef Of The Year* Award...
She Recently Posted in MARKETING FORUM: (January 8) Just Six short months
since joining us... "If anyone had told me a year ago that I would
have my own business, and could make it thrive, I would never have believed
them! If I can do it..ANYONE can! I can't believe how drastically my life has
changed for the better, and can not thank PCN enough!!!"
It is with great pleasure we proudly present the NEWBIE PERSONAL CHEF OF
THE YEAR AWARD to:
Personal Chef JULIE ANNE RHODES
The Roving Stove, Los Angeles, CA
Now the moment you have all been waiting for!!!!
The PERSONAL CHEF OF THE YEAR exemplifies everything our organization stands
for personifying what each of us strives for. This member exhibits personal
participation in our membership forums, has an up to date webpage, active in
local area gatherings, has completed at least one year of membership at
Personal Chefs Network, and has a long list of satisfied clients with a
waiting list. Additionally, this year’s winner was one of our very first
members (she waiting for our materials to be printed) at PCN and has been
more than willing to help us with inquires to newbies for membership to PCN.
She is diligent in helping new personal chefs, supports PCN through her
Network Advisory Council work, chat hosting, forum posting, and recipe
sharing, but mostly for her promotion of our industry through her visible
work in the Houston area. It is also remarkable that she has put her
successful pc business together while attending culinary school and working
at all her other food related endeavors as well as being a good wife and
mother.
It is was our true honor to bestow our 2nd annual PERSONAL CHEF OF THE YEAR
award to Personal Chef NORIE BERNDT of Chef’N Personal Chef Service
in Pearland, TX
Chef Norie received a l.a.r.g.e *Golden Whisk Award* plaque with the golden
whisk and large iron skillet engraved with her name, a gift certificate from
Legal Seafoods for a lobster boil for 4, and the a Boston cookbook signed by
each PCN member in attendance at the awards brunch, and a year of free
membership at Personal Chefs Network!
Congratulations to each and every winner of these awards! You are all helping
us start a wonderful tradition in our organization and you will love the
plaques you will receive, they are adorable! We hope you will hang them
proudly in your home offices with a reminder to attend the convention in
Boston next year when we announce next year’s winner. We would love to hand
them to you personally.
Your friends from PCN Headquarters,
~Sharon and Wendy
Co-Founders, Personal Chefs Network, Inc.
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here for pictures!
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Thanks
to our Boston 2003 sponsors! ~
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