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Learning To FLY in Action at the AFGSC Outstanding Airmen of the Year Banquet A first-of-its-kind event where the Learning To FLY students were immersed in the event to prepare, plate and serve the meal. Page 3
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May
SPECIAL EVENTS During May, the Airmen enjoyed: • • • • • • • •
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Big City Bites: Seattle Memorial Day Lunch Sodexo Stop Hunger Servathon Barksdale Students FLY Limited Time Offers Military Appreciation Month Nellis AFB Grand Opening Awards & Recognition
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Big City Bites Kick-Off in Seattle Big-City Bites is an exciting promotion that celebrates the unique, authentic cuisines found in 14 of North America’s most iconic cities. In May, we kicked off our tour in Seattle, serving the best of the best from the pacific northwest. Our menu featured Coffee Crusted Pork Loin and Soy Glazed Salmon, four savory sides and Vanilla Cappuccino Brownies. Transactions: 26,167 Sales: $46,371
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National Employee Appreciation Day
AFGSC Outstanding Airmen of the Year Banquet with Sodexo’s Learning to Fly Advanced Culinary Class On May 12, 2022 AFGSC Commander, General Anthony Cotton hosted the annual Outstanding Airmen of the Year Banquet that recognized the stellar Airmen assigned across the entire command: Barksdale AFB, Louisiana Dyess AFB, Texas Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming Malmstrom AFB, Montana Minot AFB, North Dakota Whiteman AFB, Missouri Winners at the AFGSC level will continue to compete at the Air Force level to be recognized as one of the prestigious 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year. The banquet was catered by the Barksdale Club, with the Learning to Fly class augmenting their staff in a first-ofits-kind immersion to prepare, plate and serve the dinner meal.
Throughout the Advanced Culinary Course, the Learning to Fly Students have worked with the Sodexo Executive Chef to learn and grow their skills beyond the scope of traditional dining facility operations. The students were able to exercise these skills during the banquet service. Below are highlights from the students describing what the class meant to them, what their favorite part of catering the banquet was, & what did they learn from an event of this caliber: 2d Lt Matthew Winger “I enjoyed watching our young Airmen grow their passion for the culinary arts, while getting my first opportunity as a Force Support Officer to immerse in the profession.” SrA Gabriela Gonzalez Torres Throughout this course, I have been able to refine my culinary skills in order to make the best food I possibly could in my military job. I genuinely enjoyed being able to create new things and be educated on ingredients I wasn't familiar with in the past. A1C Zili Li Every class I have learned something new. It’s very rewarding. I enjoy garnish so much; garnish your food with romance! Good food should make your mouth water from sight!
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Memorial Day Lunch In honor of Memorial Day, we featured a delicious BBQ menu in all the base dining facilities with Kansas City BBQ Chicken, BBQ Pork Ribs, Flank Steak, and all the fixin’ to make a positively savory plate. Transactions: 14,520 Sales: $23,014
Patio Garden Workshop During this year's Servathon event at JB Charleston, we hosted a sustainable patio garden workshop. We educated the Airmen about food insecurity and how to plant and grow their patio gardens in pots to help feed themselves and their families. We showed them different fresh veggies and herbs that can be grown in pots, hanging baskets, or in windowsill boxes. Best of all, if they get stationed at another base, they can take them with them or gift them to someone else. SrA Alaysia Colson, pictured bottom right, planted squash seeds at our workshop, and you can see her thriving patio garden pictured left!
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Stop Hunger Servathon Serving Our Local Communities April marks the beginning of our Sodexo Stop Hunger Servathon. Sodexo has dedicated the months of April and May for employees to join forces globally to fight hunger in their local communities. We’re very excited that eight of our bases were able to setup local events doing volunteer work, food drives and fund raising. Examples of how they worked to reduce hunger in their communities included food drives, volunteered at food banks, raised food donations for community kitchens, hosted a sustainable garden workshop, and competed in a can food architecture challenge. Check out the results from all their efforts below. Base
Volunteer Hours
Cannon Charleston
LBs of Food
504 12
40
Dover
186
Eglin
232
Goodfellow
84
Randolph Total
People Served
240 151
96
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Military Appreciation Limited Time Offers Month May Giveaway *All plant-based or Mindful offers
Cubano Burger Transactions: 185 Sales: $730.75
Szechuan Salmon Wrap Transactions: 242 Sales: $1,125.30
During the month of May we showed our appreciation to our military guests by giving away FLY Swag and other great items via our Instagram platform. Each week of the month, our Instagram followers had to like and comment on our special promotional posts, like the one below, to be entered to win. One winner would be randomly selected at the end of the week to take home prizes. One of our winners, Alli, is pictured above with our FLY fitness prize pack! Follow us on Instagram to see more great content: @FLYDiningSodexo
Apple Gouda Snack Box Transactions: 547 Sales: $1,504.25 Tomato, Bacon & Cheddar Baguette Transactions: 356 Sales: $1,424 May 2022
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Recognition and Awards Welcome to the Food 2.0 Team, Nellis Air Force Base! On May 5th, we celebrated the grand opening of Nellis Air Force Base and welcomed them to the FLY by Sodexo Food 2.0 Family! Nellis’s Crosswinds Dining Facility now offers an array of dining options to include N’Rich Grill, SubConnection Deli, Slice of Life Pizza, Hot Entrees, a full Seasonal Salad Bar, and much more! Everyone on base is welcome to dine in the new state of the art dining facility! Great job to the entire team who supported this amazing transition and opening!
Give a round of applause for our Food Service Professionals of the month, SrA Tekeila Shouse and Abrahan Mendez at F. E. Warren AFB. Great job, and well deserved!
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Sodexo manages 16 Facebook pages for each Base location, an Instagram and Twitter account that encompasses posts about all our locations, and an App. Analytics, available to the right, show the number of engagements across all platforms, and how they are engaging with us.
Top Engaging Facebook Post in May 2022 Seymour Johnson AFB: We're kicking off our Big City Bites Summer Menu Series with Seattle!
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