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Ovations Food Services Gives Back To Tampa Bay

January 2, 2013 by Press Release

TAMPA, FL (January 2, 2013) Ovations Food Services, a nationally-ranked Tampa-based food service provider will bring together more than 125 of their general managers and senior level executives from their home office and from their convention centers, stadiums, arenas and casinos around North America to Tampa for the company’s 2013 National Meetings.  The purpose of Ovations’ annual meeting, which runs from January 6th through January 9th, is to discuss industry leading trends.  The Ovations team will be visiting client facilities in the area, including Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts and Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo.

 

The purpose of visiting Ovations’ client facilities is to give back to local businesses and to demonstrate the service, ideas and expertise the food service company provides at its facilities.  Ovations is hosting a trade show at The Lakeland Center with over 100 exhibitors in attendance, an action station-packed dinner at the Straz Center with over 170 guests and an awards ceremony at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo.

 

In addition, Ovations Food Services is giving back by making a donation to the Straz Center for the Performing Arts and Feeding America Tampa Bay.

On Tuesday, January 8th at 1 p.m. Ovations’ employees will be splitting into two teams of 60 members each at Feeding America Tampa Bay. Competing for which team can sort the most food based on weight, Ovations will donate $.25 cents per pound to Feeding America Tampa Bay on the winning teams behalf.  Ovations’ General Managers will also learn the many ways their facilities can become involved with Feeding America locations throughout the country.

 

About Ovations Food Services, LP:  A nationally ranked food service company, Ovations Food Services (www.ovationsfoodservices.com) delivers fresh menus, fresh management and fresh ideas to public assembly venues, hotels and casinos throughout the United States and Canada.  A Tampa Bay Area based company, Ovations specializes in food, beverage, merchandise and hospitality services for stadiums, arenas, convention centers, fairgrounds, expo-centers, racetracks, zoos, performing arts centers, amphitheaters, casinos and hotels. Locally, Ovations manages the food service operations at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, The Lakeland Center, Ruth Eckerd Hall and Capitol Theatre and consults at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts. Considered by many as the best managed and most innovative company in the industry, Ovations’ results oriented senior management team has been involved in managing almost every major public assembly facility throughout the United States and Canada.

About Comcast Spectacor: Ovations’ parent company, Comcast-Spectacor (comcast-spectacor.com) is the Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment company which owns the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL), the home arena for both the Flyers and the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, the Wells Fargo Center, and four Flyers Skate Zone community ice skating and hockey rinks. In addition, Comcast-Spectacor is also the principal owner of Global Spectrum, the fastest growing firm in the public assembly management field with more than 100 facilities throughout the United States and Canada; Ovations Food Services; New Era Tickets, a ticketing and marketing company for public assembly facilities; Front Row Marketing Services, a commercial rights sales company; FanOne, a digital fan marketing company; and Paciolan, the leading provider of venue enablement, ticketing, fundraising and marketing technology solutions.

 

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