RFMA 2010 Educational Session Tracks

"The relevant instructional sessions provided insightful knowledge.  I copied all the power points and will be distributing them to my team for continued discussion."

Jeremy Griggs, Starbucks

Overview

RFMA educational session tracks will help you find creative methods and resources to evolve your business and your career. Whether you’re climbing the corporate ladder or interested in improving your knowledge skills in your current position, let our industry experts, professional speakers and training consultants provide you with the tools to achieve your goals.

We are a paperless conference for 2010. 
There will be no handouts distributed on-site.  Speakers will provide handout materials for their educational sessions in advance for you to print prior to or after returning home from the conference.  These handouts will be made available next to the session listing on the Education Schedule-at-a-Glance as they become available.

RFMA 2010 will feature:

 1 - Keynote from Industry Leader
      Doug Brooks, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Brinker International

11 - Technical Sessions
       These sessions are developed and presented by industry experts within the 
       restaurant industry.

  6 - Rockhurst University Sessions
       These sessions are CEU accredited!

  1 - Restaurant Roundtable Session
       The Restaurant Roundtable Session is for restaurateurs only!  There will be 20 table
       topics to choose from during each 45 minute rotation.  This session will provide an
       opportunity for restaurant members to sit across the table from their peers and share
       concerns and best-practices relating to the hottest industry topics.

  1 -  Restaurant Best Practices/Benchmarking Session
       On Tuesday the session will be a "Best Practices/Benchmarking" opportunity.  This
       session will be divided into groups by the type of restaurant you represent; Quick
       Serve, Casual Dining, Fine Dining, Multi Brand Chains or Franchisees.  Bring your Best
       Practices and Benchmarking information that you are able to share and network with
       peers in your industry to improve your processes!

  4 - Signature Speakers
       We’ve brought in some of the finest professionals in their fields, with a focus on 
       improving your interpersonal and leadership skills. So please take advantage of as
       many sessions as your schedule allows.

  1 - Vendor Voice Session
       Vendor attendees are invited to this session to meet with Susan Daywitt, Vendor
       Representative to the Board of Directors, and other RFMA vendor committee cochairs
       and leaders. This will be an open forum to discuss issues affecting our vendor 
       members and to share ideas on how to make RFMA more responsive to the vendors 
       needs. In addition there will be a Signature Speaker presentation especially for this 
       vendor session.