GASTREET, тобою болеть даже приятно
In Sochi, the most significant event for restaurateurs - GASTREET International Restaurant Show – took place.
GASTREET festival is a large-scale event for the restaurant industry, which unites more and more participants every year. This time, 150 top-speakers and chefs came to Sochi. A unique educational program was in the store for the guests of the festival: about 5000 restaurateurs took part in 200 seminars, master classes, and performances.
Yana Starovoitova, director of the School of Service and Hospitality and a lecturer of the Department of Tourism Business and Hospitality, was in the community of professionals.
"For me, it all began spontaneously: I had to go to the exhibition in Chicago, but I was invited to be a co-host of the video program “Diary of Digitalizer” at GASTREET, whose main task was to interview as many Russian restaurateurs as possible," Yana Starovoitova said.
The USUE lecturer met with the organizers of the largest and most grandiose event in the restaurant business - Dmitry Levitsky and Gosha Karpenko, famous Moscow restaurateurs. She also managed to interview and exchange experience with Pavel Maslakov, a restaurateur from Yekaterinburg and the owner of the Yapona - Mama project, Vladimir Olkinitsky, the owner of the Zames project, Pavel Chikov, restaurateur and sommelier (Veliky Novgorod), and Oleg Nazarov, a restaurateurs’ coach.
All restaurateurs want to exchange experiences and wait for students taking practical training. Next year, our students will start preparing for GASTREET -2019 festival and will join volunteer teams. This year, about 150 volunteers took part in the event.
Yana Starovoitova shared her impressions and discoveries after returning from the festival:
- Why are all the visiting restaurateurs so clever and full of knowledge? They are people of a certain "material" and format. They all managed to gather in one place! They are full of new ideas and implementations!
- GASTREET is the best place to start making friends and interacting. After GASTREET, friends always make collaborations!
- To learn experience is good: all participants gather thoughts and ideas and introduce them in their own way, and there are a billion of ideas!
- Everybody should go there! Especially students! To find the time in the personal May calendar and gain experience and emotions! USUE has agreed with the organizers about the trip of students next year!
Soon, videos with of a lot of useful information about GASTREET festival will be released. Everyone could find the links on the site of the USUE School of Service and Hospitality.
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