Eating at a Meeting
Tracy Stuckrath, CFPM, CMM, CSEP, CHC
Eating at a Meeting explores a variety of topics on food and beverage (F&B) and how they impact individual experience and inclusion, sustainability, culture, community, health and wellness, laws and more.
The mission of Eating at a Meeting is to share authentic stories that illustrate the financial, social, emotional, and mental impact food and beverage have on individuals, organizations, and the earth. I see it being threefold:
● Help individuals and organizations understand how F&B
impacts employee, customer and guest experience, the
planet and the bottom line.
● Help those growing, producing, preparing, and serving
F&B understand the duty of care they hold in food safety
and inclusion as well as the opportunity they have to
create experiences that are safe and inclusive.
● Support those with dietary needs by gathering their
insight on eating at a meeting with dietary needs,
helping them better advocate for themselves and
educating them on the processes found on the other
side of the kitchen door.
The mission of Eating at a Meeting is to share authentic stories that illustrate the financial, social, emotional, and mental impact food and beverage have on individuals, organizations, and the earth. I see it being threefold:
● Help individuals and organizations understand how F&B
impacts employee, customer and guest experience, the
planet and the bottom line.
● Help those growing, producing, preparing, and serving
F&B understand the duty of care they hold in food safety
and inclusion as well as the opportunity they have to
create experiences that are safe and inclusive.
● Support those with dietary needs by gathering their
insight on eating at a meeting with dietary needs,
helping them better advocate for themselves and
educating them on the processes found on the other
side of the kitchen door.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 16, 2021 • 39min
58: What are Heritage Grains & Why Should We Use Them?
Mona Esposito, aka "The Grain Lady," is an activist and advocate of restoring heritage grains to Colorado. She is a resource for all things grain, in the field and in the kitchen. Through the Noble Grain Alliance she co-founded in 2016 and founding board member of The Colorado Grain Chain in 2019, she is supporting and recreating the network of farmers, millers and makers needed to make a regional grain economy thrive. Learn how Mona's passion and commitment are helping encourage environmental sustainability, access to whole food-rich in flavor and nutrition, diversification on farms and supporting a community’s food resilience strategy. She is making HERstory. Useful Links www.thegrainlady.com https://www.instagram.com/monathegrainlady/ https://www.facebook.com/monathegrainlady Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com
Mar 11, 2021 • 38min
57: History Lessons & Cocktails — A Woman Making HERstory
A bartender who gives history lessons with every cocktail she serves? You bet! Her name is Tiffanie Barriere, aka "The Drinking Coach" and her main goal is education, service, and fun with every pour. Her history lessons pay homage to her ancestors, culture, and family, as well to the labor of the Black women before her who shaped the modern-day hospitality industry. Her cocktails are inspired by history, designed from the heart, and connect culinary and farm culture with spirits. Listen as the Tastemakers of the South award-winner, former beverage director of the “Best Airport Bar in the World,” and a bartender’s bartender on how she is making HERstory as an influencer and educator talks about "grass to glass," how she was be remembered in history and what her grandmother taught her about life. www.instagram.com/thedrinkingcoach www.thedrinkingcoach.com https://www.facebook.com/TiffanieDrinkingCoachBarriere https://twitter.com/DrinkingCoach Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com
Mar 9, 2021 • 38min
56: What's in Your Sausage? The Importance of Certifying Food free-from Allergens
From first selling sasuage for a local 4th of July Festival in 1990, Loree Mulay Weisman is proud to run the 31 year old food company that sells all products that are clean, paleo-friendly, gluten-free an top 8 allergen free. Though the ingredients are now “on-trend” her recipes is from her family’s centuries old tradition. Learn how Loree ensures her food is certifed allergen-free foods and how that allows everyone to eat together. She shares how she sources the pork and beef, been successful in marketing the products, where to buy them in stores and for food service. https://www.instagram.com/mulayssausage https://www.linkedin.com/company/mulay's-sausage https://www.facebook.com/mulays https://twitter.com/MulaysSausage https://www.pinterest.com/mulayssausage Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com
Mar 4, 2021 • 35min
55: A Warrior for Free Range Grass-Fed Meat
Celebrate Women's History Month, we're honoring women who are doing amazing work— creating their own HERstory — within the global food and beverage system. Caroline McCann is passionate about sustainable, ethically-produced food, and assisting communities around southern Africa to develop local food economies using the principles of #SlowFood - good, clean & fair food for all promoting biodiversity. An accomplished entrepreneur and a warrior for free range grass-fed meat, learn how she is advocating for improving the environment and the lives of marginalized communities one meal at a time. Useful Links https://chefswithcompassion.org.za/ https://www.instagram.com/camccann/ https://www.facebook.com/caroline.mccann1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-mccann-511808a0/ Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com
Mar 2, 2021 • 42min
54: Getting to the Truth in Food
Michele Payn wants us to better understand the connection between food and the farm. One way she does that is by bringing clarity and common sense to help us all navigate the grocery store. As one of North America’s leading advocates, she is passionate about getting back to the truth in food – raised the right way, by the right people, for the right reasons. In this episode of Eating at a Meeting Tracy and Michele share truths about food labeling, discuss food bullying, and exploring food insecurity. causematters.com facebook.com/causematters instagram.com/mpaynspeaker twitter.com/mpaynspeaker www.linkedin.com/in/mpaynspeaker Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com
Feb 25, 2021 • 34min
53: Elevating Food Allergy Safety
Shandee Chernow has taken her knowledge and personal experience with life-threatening food allergies to create a business that is revolutionizing dining for allergy sufferers and restaurant owners. As founder and CEO of CertiStar Shandee is going to share her story, including a traumatic reaction, explain the anxiety and frustration that comes with eating out with a life-threatening food allergy and how technology can help both restaurant owners and food allergic guests feel safer in the dining experience. Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com
Feb 23, 2021 • 50min
52: Fostering Inclusive Workplace Culture Through Food
Positive office culture is essential to happy, productive employees. Food and beverage have often been part of office culture, but what and how it was served may have subversively impacted diversity and inclusion in the workplace. In this episode, leadership and workplace culture expert Nora Burns talks about how to advocate for inclusion-based employee meal planning and shares ways employers can strengthen cultural diversity and foster inclusion and belonging at work through food. www.theleadershipexperts.com https://www.facebook.com/TheLeadershipExperts https://www.instagram.com/thenoraburns/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/noraburns Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com
Feb 18, 2021 • 36min
51: Contracting Food and Beverage During a Pandemic
In the age of COVID-19, planners and suppliers are charged with establishing extra safeguards to keep participants, sponsors and their companies and safe and healthy. Food and beverage safety is among those extra precautions. How can both sides ensure the safety and legally protect themselves in these uncertain times? In episode, attorneys Tyra Warner and Lisa Sommer Devlin talk with Tracy about what planners and suppliers need to know about contracting food and beverage events in the age of COVID-19 and beyond. Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com
Feb 16, 2021 • 45min
50: Aligning Food System Practices & Consumer Expectations with Roxi Beck
Free-from, GMO, naturally grown, organic, sustainable, cage-free. You name it, there's a label for it in the food you are buying. But, what do they all mean? Which one is right for you? Your guest? Consumer's expectations around food and beverage are changing. The diversity of needs, wants and customs is vast. How do those who provide the food — farmers, manufacturers, grocers, chefs, hotels, event planners, servers — stay on top of the needs, communicate and build trust in their products and help consumers make informed decisions? Roxi Beck works with The Center for Food Integrity, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to help today’s food system earn consumer trust. In this episode of Eating at a Meeting, she and I will talk about how a "transparent, sustainable food system” can "align with consumer expectations” to create delicious tables. Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com
Feb 11, 2021 • 45min
49: Talking Heart Health & Changing Lifestyles
To celebrate #hearthealthmonth, Tracy chats with Jennifer Sena, CMP HMCC, a meetings & event industry professional working for Visit Lauderdale who is also a mother of two and a heart attack survivor. Jennifer shares how having a heart attack has changed her perspective on her lifestyle, exercise and eating at home and at work. Learn how she is motivating and educating others so we can get to the heart of making her and our lives healthier. https://www.facebook.com/Heart-Me-with-Jennifer https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.sena.5 https://www.instagram.com/jenn_sena/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifersena/
