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The Restaurant & Food Group by Informa Connect is the leading business-to-business integrated media group connecting products, solutions, and thought leadership with the largest, most engaged, and highly-qualified audience in foodservice and grocery. Our brands, including Nation’s Restaurant News, Restaurant Hospitality, Food Management, MUFSO, CREATE, and Supermarket News, provide marketers the best media environments and marketing solutions to connect with the foodservice industry. We have an unwavering commitment to quality content and maintaining an authentic voice in all that we do. We drive relationships, not just transactions. Whether connecting buyers and sellers face-to-face, through active digital engagement, or via branding in the highest-quality magazines, connectivity matters, and integrated campaigns are the best approach in B2B. Learn more about the Restaurant & Food Group. For more information, visit our brand sites:
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Gerald Drummond, Executive Chef, Campbell’s Foodservice

Chef Gerald Drummond has more than 30 years of experience in the foodservice industry. His expertise includes overseeing operations, facilitating new product launches, leading culinary teams and developing menus for a variety of esteemed establishments throughout the US and Mexico. He uses techniques and inspiration from his culinary background in Italian, Mediterranean, French, Cuban and modern Japanese cuisines to infuse unique flavor into the amazing work he does every day at Campbell’s Foodservice.

Prior to joining Campbell’s Foodservice in 2017, Chef Gerald held positions at Starr Catering Group and STARR Restaurant Organization—including renowned Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia, China Grill Management and River Station Restaurant. A track record of consistent advancement and culinary creativity makes Chef Gerald an invaluable addition to the Campbell’s Foodservice team.

Bret Thorn, Senior Food & Beverage Editor, Nation’s Restaurant News

Award winning columnist Bret Thorn is senior food & beverage editor of Nation’s Restaurant News and senior editor of Restaurant Hospitality with responsibility for spotting and reporting on food and beverage trends across the country for both publications.

From 2006 to 2008 he also wrote the Kitchen Dish column for The New York Sun, covering restaurant openings and chefs’ career moves. He joined Nation’s Restaurant News in 1999 after spending about five years in Thailand, where he wrote articles about business, banking and finance as well as restaurant reviews and food columns for Manager magazine and Asia Times newspaper. He joined Restaurant Hospitality’s staff in 2016 while retaining his position at NRN.

A magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., with a bachelor’s degree in history, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Thorn also studied traditional French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris.

His monthly column in Nation’s Restaurant News won the 2006 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best staff-written editorial or opinion column.

He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.