Snapchef Announces George O’Palenick as Senior Business Advisor
Culinary Staffing Agency Expands to Meet Shortage of Culinary Staff Throughout the Region (Sept. 21, 2017) –New England’s largest temporary and permanent culinary staffing and training agency has announced the hiring of George O'Palenick as Senior Business Advisor. In his role, O’Palenick will assist in building upon Snapchef’s unique workforce development apprentice program, as well as its “earn and learn” Fast Track Culinary curriculum. O’Palenick has a rich and distinguished career in all facets of the foodservice industry. He holds both a B.S. and M.S. in Food Service Management from Johnson & Wales University (JWU), where he was Associate [...]
Snapchef Celebrates Angela Sanfilippo’s 40 Years of Charting a Course for Seafood Chefs
By: Todd Snopkowski, CEO Today, restaurants and food-service facilities find themselves faced with the challenge of finding and retaining employees due to the culinary seafood industry’s shrinking labor pool. Similarly, local markets in communities and cities, such as in Gloucester, Massachusetts, find themselves faced with the challenge of operating in a modern, competitive food market. Angela Sanfilippo has been a leader at the nexus of chefs and the seafood industry for the last forty years. Through her leadership, I joined with the City of Gloucester and Innovate Glosta to help provide education for chefs of all backgrounds on the use [...]
SnapChef Celebrates Business Growth in Dorchester
Culinary Staffing Agency has hired over 1,000 employees since opening its Boston HQ in 2015 BOSTON-- SnapChef, the area’s premier culinary training and staffing agency, today celebrated two years of business growth since opening its Workforce Development Center and Corporate Headquarters in Dorchester, Massachusetts. As part of the festivities, July 31, 2017 was named “Snapchef Fast Track Culinary Day” in Boston. Located at 420 Washington Street, the Snapchef Fast Track Culinary Day celebration included remarks given by the City of Boston’s Economic Development Chief, John Barros, and SnapChef CEO and Founder, Todd Snopkowski. The program included an open job fair [...]
Snapchef Announces New Hires at Five of its Six Office Locations
Culinary Staffing Agency Expands to Meet Shortage of Culinary Staff Throughout the Region Snapchef – New England’s largest temporary and permanent culinary staffing and training agency, headquartered in Dorchester, is expanding rapidly in response to the acute shortage of qualified culinary workers throughout the region. In the past month, Snapchef has added staff at five of its six office locations in Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Holden and Providence, RI. Snapchef currently employees more than 1,500 staff, and places between 200 – 300 Snapschefs per week, on a temporary basis, to a range of food service establishments including restaurants, caterers, hospitals, universities, [...]
Snapchef Foundation Scholarship Program at Johnson & Wales University Enters Its Third Year
$25,000 Scholarship Supports High Achieving Students in the University’s College of Culinary Arts As one of three areas of focus – to create scholarship opportunities for students studying culinary arts – the Snapchef Foundation has established a $25,000 scholarship fund for high achieving students at Johnson & Wales University’s College of Culinary Arts. Entering its third year since its founding, the fund awards $5,000 annually to two students who have financial need and who have demonstrated a high level of proficiency, leadership and professionalism. These students, as well as other students at the university’s College of Culinary Arts, have the [...]
Snapchef Foundation To Create Springfield Culinary Workforce Development, Event and Incubator Center
Main Street Facility to host company’s pioneering “Earn and Lean” workforce development “Fast Track” program in collaboration with the New England Farm Workers’ Council Springfield – June 28, 2017- Snapchef, the largest culinary staffing and training company in New England, announced plans for its 501c3 Snapchef Foundation to operate a culinary training and event innovation center in downtown Springfield. The Snapchef Center will serve western Massachusetts to bolster workforce development in the culinary and hospitality sectors. The Center, located at 1600 Main Street, will act as a food product incubator and community event facility, as well as a location for [...]
