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2025 Pizza Tomorrow Summit and FL Restaurant Show Program-at-a-Glance

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All sessions, demos, and competitions, except for Restaurant Management 201 and Restaurant Management 301 workshops, are included with your show admission and take place right on the show floor to maximize your time at the show.

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Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663

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  1. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    Chef de Cuisine, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park
  2. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    Kelsey Barnard Clark is a chef, entrepreneur, lifestyle tastemaker, and co-star of Netflix’s newest culinary competition, Next Gen Chef.  Her Modern Southern voice is redefining what it means to gathe ...
  3. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
  4. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    ACF
  5. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    Discover the secrets to pairing food and wine like a professional with expert guidance from Professor Brian Connors. In this interactive course, you'll delve into the science behind flavor profiles an ...
Education Theater 1179
  1. Education Theater 1179
    Learn how to build a powerful personal brand using proven PR strategies. Alexis shares actionable insights on media pitching, storytelling, and thought leadership to help entrepreneurs increase visibi ...
  2. Education Theater 1179
    Most restaurants promote from within—but fail to develop the leadership skills needed to thrive at the next level. In this fast-paced, interactive session, leadership coach and pizzeria operator Tyrel ...
  3. Education Theater 1179
    The guest experience is created through a culmination of events throughout the guest visit. These events all impact each other, and result in a “domino effect” which can lead to a negative guest exper ...
  4. Education Theater 1179
    Capsolve will discuss best practices for identifying, evaluating, and managing technology within the restaurant environment. This will include techniques for enabling restaurateurs and consultants to ...
Education Theater 1631
  1. Education Theater 1631
    Ever felt like leadership is just one long ordeal of chasing people down for things? Or have you avoided taking on a leadership position because you just did NOT want to be the one with a million thin ...
  2. Education Theater 1631
    Discover real-world tax strategies that put money back in your business. Learn how cost segregation, capital expenditure studies, and the potential return of 100% bonus depreciation could dramatically ...
  3. Education Theater 1631
    There are so many ways to increase sales, but if they are not created, marketed or executed correctly, these great ideas end up hurting! Discover the right approach to these potential hidden gems, tha ...
Education Theater 274
  1. Education Theater 274
    Restaurant marketing is much easier with the right tips, tricks, and tools. How do you get more people to find your restaurant when they search Google for what they crave? How frequently should you po ...
  2. Education Theater 274
  3. Education Theater 274
    Every pizzeria dreams of growth — but scaling without a strategy can lead to lost quality, shaky culture, and a diluted brand. In this seminar, Rico Lunardi, owner of the award-winning Slice on Broadw ...
  4. Education Theater 274
    An honest, informal discussion about ROI for operators thinking about deploying AI in their restaurants. Cameron Long, Co-Founder of Virnika, and John Scully, founder of Pizza Cloud, discuss where the ...
  5. Education Theater 274
    Panel of The Burnt Chef Project Ambassadors

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    Unox The Burnt Chef Project

Showpiece Competition - ACF Live Action - Booth 1465

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Sysco

  1. Showpiece Competition - ACF Live Action - Booth 1465
    Welcome to the ACF Central Florida Chapter's 2025 Culinary Arts Competitions. These are ACF Sanctioned competitions which follow ACF Guidelines and will be judged by ACF Certified Judges. Our Competit ...
Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663

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  1. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    Join butcher educator, Sierra Anthony, in a lively cutting demonstration of the beef top sirloin butt. Following the cutting demo, chefs will have the opportunity to utilize the generated beef cuts in ...
  2. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    Chef de Cuisine, Disney’s BoardWalk
  3. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    ACF
  4. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    The 2025 Rapid Fire: Combi Oven Challenge is powered by Unox.  Chefs are invited to compete in preparing dishes featuring sirloin cuts from our butchery demo by Sierra Anthony!  They are instructed to ...

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     Unox

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    Sysco

Education Theater 1179
  1. Education Theater 1179
    Join husband-and-wife duo Kira and Mark Zabrowski, former educators turned award-winning pizzeria owners, as they share the realities of launching a small business. From marketing challenges to perfec ...
  2. Education Theater 1179
    Top Florida caterers Bill Hansen, Warren Dietel, and Kevin Lacassin discuss how they're growing their businesses, what's hot in catering and events, the challenges they're facing, and tips for operato ...
  3. Education Theater 1179
    Your guest is hungry, wallet open—and you blew it. This brutally honest session reveals why hotels keep handing sales to delivery apps and how to reclaim your F&B revenue with bold tech, smarter strat ...
  4. Education Theater 1179
    Join a panel of distinguished legacy restaurant owners as they share insights on the foundational pillars of enduring success. This discussion will explore how operational excellence, sound financial ...

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    Champion Payments Service With Style

Education Theater 1631
  1. Education Theater 1631
    The session will start with Pietro's introduction/qualifications. Following this, he will discuss the intricacies of venturing into the retail sector (example: a mexican restaurant now has a frozen fo ...
  2. Education Theater 1631
    Jeremy Bess will present key economic trends, offering actionable insights for business leaders. By simplifying complex data, he’ll provide practical strategies to help leaders make informed decisions ...
  3. Education Theater 1631
    This is a must attend session for both existing restaurant owners facing a lease renewal negotiation and new start-up restaurant tenants leasing space for the first time. Learn the 13 costly mistakes ...
  4. Education Theater 1631
    Peek around the corner into 2026 with a forward-looking scan of the biggest movements reshaping food and beverage. From today’s emerging signals to tomorrow’s breakout opportunities—this session equip ...
Education Theater 274
  1. Education Theater 274
    Explain how the numbers of your PnL statements work and what they should look like Know how to read a PnL Know how to make projections Know how to stick to a budget to ensure there is profit at the en ...
  2. Education Theater 274
    The most important step in any journey is the first. If you want to get into the pizza business, don’t wait. Your dreams don’t begin tomorrow. Come join a presentation and discussion on the beginning ...
  3. Education Theater 274
    How our business integrates with current technology Knowing your numbers, employee management, Food distributers, POS's
  4. Education Theater 274
    This session redefines exceptional leadership as creating a workplace where employees thrive by feeling seen, heard, and understood. Through using high support and challenge, employee loyalty is inspi ...
Showpiece Competition - ACF Live Action - Booth 1465

Presented by: 

ACF logo

Ingredients provided by: 

Sysco

  1. Showpiece Competition - ACF Live Action - Booth 1465
    Welcome to the ACF Central Florida Chapter's 2025 Culinary Arts Competitions. These are ACF Sanctioned competitions which follow ACF Guidelines and will be judged by ACF Certified Judges. Our Competit ...
Workshop Room - Room 209B

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Champion Payments

Sysco

  1. Workshop Room - Room 209B
    Restaurant Management 201 is a 3.5 hour, in-depth management training workshop that will give your team the knowledge, skills, and systems they need to properly run the daily operations of your busine ...
Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663

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Sysco

  1. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    Chef de Cuisine, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
  2. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    Join Chef Glenn Cybulksi, a founding member of Chefs Feeding Kids – a non- profit group made up of professional chefs and restaurant owners dedicated to feeding the undernourished and promoting health ...

    Sponsored by:

    Chefs Feeding Kids

  3. Culinary Innovation Theater - Booth 1663
    Operator's Choice Award Logo
Education Theater 1179
  1. Education Theater 1179
    This session is a deep dive into the art of hospitality. We explore why how we care for others, is far more important than the food, beverage, and service we provide. Takeaway 1 - the difference betwe ...
  2. Education Theater 1179
    Learn 7 proven social media tactics that actually move the needle for restaurants. From customer engagement to AI-powered content and review replies, this session will show you how to turn online acti ...
Education Theater 1631
  1. Education Theater 1631
    Generation Z—the most socially conscious, tech-savvy, and experience-driven generation yet—is redefining the beverage industry. From sustainability and authenticity to digital-first engagement and pur ...
Education Theater 274
  1. Education Theater 274
    Restaurant rescue strategy & checklist that includes a step-by-step approach to decreasing overhead, analyzing the profit & loss statement, and optimizing food cost and labor designed to restore profi ...
  2. Education Theater 274
    Helbraun Levey, the nation’s top hospitality law firm, equips you with the tools and insights to open a bar or restaurant in Florida. Beyond raising capital and securing licenses, they’ll advise on pi ...
Workshop Room - Room 209B

Proudly Sponsored by:

Champion Payments

Sysco

  1. Workshop Room - Room 209B
    Restaurant Management 301 is a new 3.5-hour, in-depth management training workshop that will give you and your team the knowledge, skills, and systems needed to properly run a profitable business, whi ...

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