FM's BEST CONCEPTS AWARDS competition recognizes and celebrates innovative thinking and practice in onsite foodservice.

Each year, our editors evaluate entries for scores of nominees before settling on the winners. The entries themselves are judged on a variety of factors ranging from their creativity to their impact on a given program and their effectiveness in achieving targeted results.

At the end of the day, the Best Concept Awards are about IDEAS — great ideas, innovative ideas, think-outside-the-box ideas — that allow onsite operators to manage foodservices more successfully and more efficiently and to better meet customer expectations.

The goal of the Best Concepts Awards program is to recognize these innovations and the organizations and teams responsible for them…

Past Recent Best Concept Program Winners: 2009 Best Concept Award Winners 2008 Best Concept Award Winners 2007 Best Concept Award Winners 2006 Best Concept Award Winners 2005 Best Concept Award Winners

FM 2010 Best Concept Awards Best of Show:
Microsoft Corp.

BEST MANAGEMENT CO. CONCEPT
Sodexo Hospitals Division

BEST RENOVATION
University of Oklahoma

BEST NEW FACILITY
Northeastern University

BEST SERVICE CONCEPT
Miami University

BEST WELLNESS CONCEPT
Texas Children's Hospital

BEST PROMOTION
Spokane Public Schools

BEST MENU
Restaurant Associates at the World Bank

BEST SPECIAL EVENT
Virginia Tech

BEST SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATION
Ohio University

BEST CONVENIENCE RETAILING CONCEPT
Yale University

BEST STATION CONCEPT
University of Delaware/Aramark

Honorable Mentions