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Sue Hoover of Quizno's Corporation with Judie Vacchina

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Karen Aguila-Percival of Starbucks, accepting award for RWF Member category

Round Table for Women in Foodservice Annual Awards
By Ellen Walsh

The Bay Area Women of Distinction Awards honors women in Northern California who exemplify standards of excellence in the foodservice industry, to which all professional women can aspire. April 2000 was the month to remember as these awards were given.

2000 Women of Distinction Winners

Corporate Category: Phyllis Sarrat, Birite Foodservice Distributors

Small Business Category: Judie Vacchina, Product Development

RWF Member . Karen Aguila-Perceval, Starbucks

The RWF also honors a Company of Distinction. This award is presented to a Northern California company who is proactive in recruiting, mentoring and promoting women at all levels of the organization. This year's award went to Otis Spunkmeyer, and John Schiave, CEO was on hand to accept the award. We applaud that award, because we all know how active employee and head of business development Jeannie Mosgrove is in this organization.

Deanna Fenton, this year's Women of Distinction chair, and last year's chapter president, put together a spectacular evening at Round Hill Country Club in Alamo. Spirits were high, as Kristi Royse of KLR & Associates opened up with a short speech on how to retain employees. Drinks were flowing, and as Bill Barulich from BiRite Foodservice got up to give an introductory speech for employee and award recipient Phyllis Sarrat, he had the audience in stitches as he made joke after joke on how NOT to retain employees. But that was not the end of the good times. Judie Vacchina, winner of this year's Small Business category, sat with her head buried in her hands as Sue Hoover, business associate of Judie's at Quiznos Corporation out of Denver, introduced her, and recounted an evening in Chicago she

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Judie Vacchina, accepting award in the Small Business category

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Hardy Burnette, of Herspring,Inc

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Judie Vacchina, Product Developer woth Jeannie Mosgrove, Otis Spunkmeyer

had spent with her as they tried to find an open restaurant after everything had closed. There is not enough space here to recount the hilarious details, but leave it at this& .. can you imagine how any creative, resourceful, powerhouse in the foodservice industry could not find their way into the back of the house after hours to eat if they really wanted to?

And finally, a word about Karen Aguila-Percival, currently a Field Consultant for Starbucks new endeavor to market to the B industry, and formerly a multi year veteran of Campbells. If you want to get a job done, ask Karen. If she says she will do it, it gets done. Most of us have known Karen for years, and know her not only as a performer, but as a warm and gracious woman. Congratulations Karen!

As you can tell by the pictures, this is a close knit group, and represents some of the real powerhouses in the sales side of the industry. It is always a pleasure to see their male counterparts show up at the awards . But for the rest of the women who read this and are looking to network with exceptional women, e mail us for info at rwf@mocandco.com or call 800 898-2849.

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