I know that using a marketing program enhances sales, customer participation, and employee morale.  

I am offering ideas for all potential holidays that can be celebrated or enhanced through food service operations. 

* Restaurants

* Bars

* School Food Service

* Nursing homes/Assisted Living

* Corporate Dining

* Healthcare Food Service

Keep in mind that this information can be used for virtually any type of operation that deals in food and or the public!

I would suggest developing a long-range plan for this type of marketing but at least 30 days in advance allowing for appropriate planning and marketing potential.

GOOD LUCK  and I hope to hear from you.

Let's get you started...

Just click on the Month you are interested in looking at. You will see a calendar for the month and there is a list of specialized pages listed below the month on the side.

You can click on the individual dates on the calendar and it will take you to a list of events for that day along with suggestions for promoting those events.

You can also click specialized lists and go to a list for the whole month of items that fall under that grouping of events. The "Food Events" sheet has the whole month of food holidays listed.  The "History Events" sheet list historical items that I find valuable or interesting. The sheet of "Miscellaneous Events" lists holidays that have become accepted through out the nation or world and they are items that are interesting/or fun. All of the items from the three previous sheets are carried over to the individual dates of the month with potential suggestions for how you can promote those days. On the sheet with "Monthly/Weekly Events" are listed National celebrations that last for several days to a week and those that last a whole month or longer.  The item "Causes" is a list of days, week, months that bring celebrations/awareness of medical conditions or causes.  These are usually not applicable to food service but often businesses want to participate in community issues or have employees get behind a cause so they are listed for you.

All the events (when possible) are linked to Internet sites that offer more information about the event.

Let me know if you have an event or celebration that I have overlooked.

Please let me know if you find any broken links!