Congratulations to Chase Center Culinary Director Kristela Nazario-Mendoza and her team!
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Meet Chef Cliff Rome, our Partner and the Chef for the Obama Presidential Center
We’re thrilled to partner with Cliff Rome, chef and owner of Peach’s, a restaurant in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. We’re teaming up with Chef Rome to operate the dining services at the Obama Presidential Library, which will open on Chicago’s South Side next year. Watch the video to get to know Cliff a little more!
A Plant-Forward Evolution for Andrea Nguyen
We were thrilled for the chance to chat with cookbook author Andrea Nguyen, our 2025 partner for AAPI Heritage Month.
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Leading By Example
Bon Appétit Management Company is an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, museums, and other specialty venues. Based in Palo Alto, CA, we operate more than 1,000 cafés in 33 states. Our chefs cook from scratch, including sauces, stocks, and soups. Widely recognized as a pioneer in environmentally sound sourcing policies, we are proud to be the first food service company to:
Directly support small, local farms- Strive to serve only sustainable seafood
- Address antibiotics overuse in our meat supply
- Switch to cage-free eggs, both shell and precracked/liquid
- Tackle food’s role in climate change
- Advocate for farmworkers’ rights
- Commit to pork raised without gestation crates
- Switch to third-party verified humanely raised ground beef
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We’re thrilled to partner with chef and entrepreneur Cliff Rome to operate the dining services at ...
We’re thrilled to partner with chef and entrepreneur Cliff Rome to operate the dining services at the Obama Presidential Library, which will open on Chicago’s South Side next year. Rome’s Joy Companies and Bon Appétit have partnered to form a new entity known as BAMJoy.
“Both Cliff and I see food as a humble but essential way to care for communities and drive systemic change,” says Bon Appétit CEO Fedele Bauccio. “By creating dynamic, community-oriented food experiences at the Obama Presidential Center, we hope to show visitors that the simple act of nourishing others brings shared values of social and environmental responsibility, civic duty, and care to the table, one meal at a time.”
Among other ventures, @cliff.rome is the chef and owner of Peach’s Restaurant in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago.
📹: @obamafoundation #ObamaLibrary #ChicagoEats #CliffRome #ChicagoFoodScene #BAMJoy
What happens when you gather 35 fourth graders to learn how to cook? Pure joy! 🤩
Our Healthy Kids in the Bon Appétit Kitchen program makes food literacy fun for everyone. Mulitple chefs from @bonappetitwhitman were joined by Fellow Mitchell Everetts to teach young learners how to make garden-fresh pizzas, paint garden rocks, use knives safely, and build rainbow fruit kabobs.
#LoveBonAppetit #HealthyKids #FoodLiteracy #CulinaryEducation #CookingWithKids
The perfect plant-forward spring appetizer doesn't exi-
Wait, what? There are Grilled Artichokes with Vegan Jalapeño Aioli at @camberssf? 🤤
#LoveBonAppetit #PlantForward #PlantBased #SpringEats
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Obama Visits Chicago to Get a Taste of Future Presidential Center Cuisine
Former President Barack Obama was recently in Chicago to work on plans for the in-progress Obama Presidential Center, including a stop at Peach’s in Bronzeville. Peach’s owner Cliff Rome is partnering with Bon Appétit Management Company to run the Obama Presidential Center’s restaurant and café, as well as catering on the campus.
Introducing Savor on Broadway
A preview of Mulva Cultural Center’s Savor on Broadway restaurant on WFRV in Green Bay, WI.
Rapper P-Lo tries Filipino cuisine at Golden State Warriors Arena
Bay Area rapper P-Lo joined our Culinary Director, Kristela Nazario-Mendoza for a Chase Center food tour where they explored their Filipino heritage by tasting dishes around the arena and creating their own custom menu items — Chicken Inasal Skewers and Manila Mule cocktail & mocktail!
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We’re always looking for great people to join our teams! If you:
- Get excited when fresh, local produce arrives on your loading dock
- Enjoy creating all-new dishes from scratch
- Love interacting with people through delicious and nutritious food
- Thrive when part of a close-knit team that takes your and others’ safety seriously
- Enjoy helping people reach their full potential, nourishing them through at-work learning opportunities
Then you may be a fit for us!