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Taste the Series
Centerplate Chef Michael Johnson prepares entrees for Omaha's Morning Blend show. The segment highlights cuisine from the College World Series which are taking place at Rosenblatt Stadium.
Centerplate Congratulates Two Award-Winning Fathers
This Fathers Day, Centerplate is excited to congratulate two of our clients for outstanding work in their careers and in their homes.
Feast on grub from the Frankies at the Belmont Stakes
Centerplate partners with the Frankies to offer unique culinary offerings at the Belmont Stakes.
Centerplate Chosen to Serve Ontario’s New Niagara Convention & Civic Centre
Leading convention hospitality provider selected to partner with new state-of-the-art LEED certified meeting facility
STAMFORD, CT (June 7, 2010)—Centerplate, the leading hospitality provider to North America’s premier convention centers, sports stadiums and entertainment venues, announced today it has been awarded the long-term contract as hospitality partner to the new Niagara Convention & Civic Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The company was selected following a lengthy and competitive review process and will help the facility, currently under construction, to open its doors in 2011.
Centerplate Introduces New Menu Concepts for 2010 Belmont Stakes
Leading hospitality provider to partner with Chef Frank Falcinelli and Chef Frank Castronovo to introduce feature menus for 2010 Belmont Stakes
STAMFORD, CT - Centerplate, the leading hospitality provider to North America’s premier sports stadiums and convention centers, will partner with Chef Frank Falcinelli and Chef Frank Castronovo, chefs and proprietors of Brooklyn’s Frankies 457 and Manhattan’s Frankies 17, two of New York City’s most-recognized Italian restaurants to create a menu featuring local foods, premier wines, and signature cocktails for this year’s Belmont Stakes. The final race in the Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes draws big crowds, and in recent runnings, Centerplate has served more than 100,000 guests.
Talking Marlins Ballpark Food With The Chef Who Makes It
Lee Klein of the Miami New Times interviews Centerplate's Chef Orlando Morales regarding his background, culinary approach, and his new menu concepts for this season of Marlins baseball:
Sports Catering: In a league of their own
Even if they don’t entirely agree on what football is, the Americans and the British both know how sports are important. And they agree that when they are watching sport, they like to eat.
By Chris Farnell
Anyone who says that sport is nothing but a game clearly doesn’t have a grasp on the numbers involved. Centerplate is one of the largest catering companies in the world. This year alone it has catered the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl and Vancouver Olympics. With a potential 40 million customers going through its sports venues, Centerplate is in no doubt that sports catering is a very serious business.
Syracuse Chiefs hope Stephen Strasburg visit will translate into a big-league payday
By Lindsay Kramer/The Post-Standard
Syracuse, NY - As soon as pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg pulls on a Syracuse Chiefs jersey and smiles for the cameras, he will be a lottery ticket that the team can keep cashing for years to come.
Strasburg’s baseball numbers in Syracuse — his fastball already has been clocked at more than 100 mph — will be recorded by scouts’ radar guns, pitching charts and box scores. But other numbers that matter from a Chiefs perspective will flow for a lot longer.
AT&T Park Becomes the First Major League Ballpark to Receive LEED Certification
This certification officially makes AT&T Park the Greenest Ballpark in the United States based on sustainability and energy efficiency practices for an existing building.
AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants since April 2000, received U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Silver Certification for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Existing Buildings, Operations and Maintenance (EBO&M). This LEED Silver Certification for an existing building makes AT&T Park the first major league ballpark to receive this honor and recognizes the Giants and its partners, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Linc Facility Services and Centerplate, for their efforts to achieve sustainability and efficiencies in the daily operations of AT&T Park.
Centerplate Wins Long-Term Contract with Detroit’s Cobo Convention Center
Hospitality Leader Trumps Competition with Record of Exemplary Guest Services
STAMFORD, CT – Centerplate, the leading hospitality provider to North America’s premier convention centers, sports stadiums and entertainment venues, announced today it has been awarded the long-term contract as hospitality partner to the Cobo Conference and Exhibition Center, the storied 2.4 million square foot facility in the heart of downtown Detroit. Following a lengthy and competitive bidding process, Centerplate will support Cobo Center during its $278 million upgrade.