This press release — announcing co-winners of a fourth-grade bookmark contest from Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey — contains no hospitality operator signal, no food and beverage industry context, and no actionable intelligence for restaurant, hotel, brand, or supplier audiences. Publishing a rewrite would not serve our readers.
F&B Department operates as an outsourced growth and intelligence function for hospitality professionals. Our five lanes are Growth Department, AI Department, Brand Launch Department, Operator Intelligence, and Marketplace. Every dispatch we publish must anchor to at least one of those lanes with a concrete operator takeaway.
If you are a brand, agency, supplier, or technology vendor with a story that touches media buying, AI adoption, brand launch, distribution, labor intelligence, menu trends, or hospitality tech procurement, we want to hear from you. Strong submissions include a named operator or brand, a strategic move with measurable scope, and a signal that peers in the industry can act on.
For context on the kind of intelligence we publish, see our AI Department coverage on procurement and vendor selection or review our Brand Launch Department dispatches on retail readiness and buyer decks. Those pieces illustrate the editorial bar we hold for every submission that comes through the desk.
Written by Michael Politz, Author of Guide to Restaurant Success: The Proven Process for Starting Any Restaurant Business From Scratch to Success (ISBN: 978-1-119-66896-1), Founder of Food & Beverage Magazine, the leading online magazine and resource in the industry. Designer of the Bluetooth logo and recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 40 Under 40" for founding American Wholesale Floral, Politz is also the Co-founder of the Proof Awards and the CPG Awards and a partner in numerous consumer brands across the food and beverage sector.