The Cornerstone Award is given to the individual or company who best illustrates that the Foodservice Industry stands as the cornerstone of the community and the economy. Their successful businesses support their local communities by creating multiple job opportunities, and by financially supporting non-profit groups, schools, scouts, and youth sports teams. Recipients have also contributed greatly to the State’s healthy economy—creating jobs, purchasing goods, and paying innumerable taxes and license fees.

Sodexho is the leading food and facilities management services company in North America and a member of Sodexho Alliance. Every day, more than 120,000 Sodexho employees work to improve the quality of daily life for their clients and customers all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Their mission is to improve the quality of daily life for all the people they serve. The irony of serving hundreds of thousands of meals to people daily, all while an estimated 38 million people are at risk for hunger, is not lost on Sodexho. Their Foundation has been working since 1999 to fight hunger through its STOP Hunger program which has provided more than $5.5 million to hunger-related organizations.

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