CAAOC Business Luncheon - The Honda Center Story: Changing the Arena Dining and The Building of an In-House Food and Beverage Company
We are privileged to have as our guest speaker Cornellian Julie Margolin, Director of Food and Beverage, Honda Center Anaheim, CA - Cornell UniversitySchool of Hotel Administration.
Our next speaker has quite the experience when it comes to applying her excellent organizational skills to a challenging position as the Director of Food and Beverage operations at the Honda Center. She transformed the Honda Center from a multi-vendor venue that offered subpar quality and expensive food and drinks to a "made in-house," fully controlled environment offering a variety of quality food and beverage options with many gourmet choices to the Center's 17,000 spectators. Her fascinating story will walk us through how she took on such a colossal task and created a successful in-house Food & Beverage operation in the Honda Center in a relatively short time span. Julie will also describe what it takes to run the day-to-day operations with a staff of more than 1,000.
Event Summary:
- Changing the paradigm of Arena F&B Company
- Building a company in two months to serve 17,000 people
- Reinventing/Establishing a business mindset inside a building and the Orange County Market
- Establishing the foundation, hiring talent en mass and communicating to and through 1000 team member
- Providing hospitality for every appetite
- Looking back on the first two years with a consideration for the next two years
1:30 AM Luncheon will begin promptly
12:00 PM Presentation/Q&A
1:30 PM Luncheon will end promptly
Cost: $40 members,
$45 non-members,
includes valet parking at Center Club.
Location: The Center Club, 650 Town Center Drive – Garden Level,
Costa Mesa, CA 92626. Tel. (714) 662-3414.
Parking Information: Valet Parking at Center Club is included.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caaoc-business-luncheon-the-honda-center-story-tickets-16985758862
Event Contact: Gaye Tomlinson, MBA ’05, CAAOC Business Lunches and Breakfasts,
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, 714-742-2948.
Speaker Bio:
Julie Margolin, Honda Center's Director of Food and Beverage, oversees all venue F&B operations including, but not limited, to concessions, suite, in-seat and catering services, as well as The Grand Terrace - a 15,000-square-foot indoor/outdoor restaurant and entertainment destination. Margolin played a key role in transitioning the food & beverage operations of the venue in-house in 2013.
A graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, Margolin has over 15 years of industry experience having previously opened Barclays Center, and worked at STAPLES Center & Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live, Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, Hollywood, California & Osaka, Japan, as well as Royal Caribbean International: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Celebrity Cruise Lines.