FM Staff

NEWS BRIEFS

All Seasons Services, Inc., has acquired CSS Vending Company Inc. of New York. CSS is a full-line vending company that serves the metro New York City area.

State agriculture and health agencies spent about $1.3 billion on food safety programs in fiscal year 1999, according to a new report from the U.S. General Accounting Office. For more information on how this money was spent, check out the GAO report, #01-177, entitled Food Safety: Overview of Federal and State Expenditures. To order (the first copy is free), call 202-512-6000 or log onto www.gao.gov.

Are you a candidate for a "Green" Award? The Foodservice Consultants Society International (FCSI) invites firms and individuals in the foodservice and hospitality industries to enter its annual Green Awards program. The award recognizes an innovative environmental operation or product that has improved the environmental standards/conditions of the operation or industry as a whole. Deadline is June 29. For more info, call FCSI at 502-583-3873 or email [email protected].

Guckenheimer Enterprises has been awarded the prestigious "Emerging Growth Company of the Year" award by the Association for Corporate Growth and the San Francisco Business Times. Past winners have included The Gap, Charles Schwab and Wells Fargo Bank.

A new Master of Science degree in e-Hospitality Information Management will debut this fall in the HR&IM program at the University of Delaware. The program’s goal: to prepare students for successful careers as corporate hospitality information and implementation professionals. For more information, contact Fred DeMicco at [email protected].

Flik International Corp. has won contracts with four NYC and one Washington law firm, furthering its strategy to make inroads into this subsegment of business dining.