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FIU alumnus Anthony Leone’s healthy fast-food restaurant is poised to become a household name By Sissi Aguila ’99, MS ’08 We’ve all read the restaurant horror stories. You think you’re eating healthy and it turns out that chicken wrap has more fat than a Big Mac. One day, after watching a [...]
As an educator in hospitality and tourism management, one of the highest honors one may earn is the Howard B. Meek Award – think lifetime achievement Oscar. FIU’s Rocco Angelo, an FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Statler professor, received the award at the International Council on Hotel, [...]
School of Hospitality and Tourism Management students Tracey Pierre (left) and Monique Rodriguez welcomed guests of the Miami Spice kick-off fundraiser on July 28 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Pierre and Rodriguez were among the 20 FIU students who volunteered to help at the second annual event. Click here [...]
The FIU School of Hospitality and Tourism Management will hold its second annual auction beginning on Monday, Sept. 5, and running through Oct. 2, to raise funds for student scholarships. Last year’s auction raised a cool $55,000, and the school already has started reaching out via Facebook and Twitter to its [...]
Summer is here, and while some students will take a much-deserved break, a group of School of Hospitality and Tourism Management students will spend the next few months in the school’s bayview dining room and kitchen. Yep, FIU’s hospitality professionals of tomorrow are at it again: They are prepping a [...]
Welcome to President Mark B. Rosenberg’s blog chronicling his visit to China. Today is the last blog from his 2011 trip. Be sure to check out his entries from May 5th and May 6th. What a memorable day! Our largest cohort ever of students graduating with their bachelor’s degrees in Hospitality [...]
Participating Students Gained Unique Experience and Earned Scholarships FIU School of Hospitality and Tourism Management announced today that the recently concluded 10th annual Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival, presented by Food & Wine, successfully raised more than $2 million for the school. Monies raised will be immediately [...]
Foodies, celebrity-chefs and a small army of Panthers converged on Miami Beach for the 10th Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival Feb. 24-27. They work on it for months in advance and when it’s time to hit the beach they mostly stay behind the scenes, at the sides [...]
WHAT: Celebrity chef and food activist Jamie Oliver will visit Booker T. Washington Senior High School to meet with students and the creators of the Overtown Cookbook, a collaborative project between the high school and Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Robert [...]
A small army of hospitality students will be instrumental in ensuring the success of the 10th annual Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival Feb. 24-27. It’s the biggest – and let’s face it, the sandiest and the most fun – classroom School of Hospitality and Tourism Management students [...]
