F&B Department received a press release from GlobeNewswire Lifestyle promoting a Father's Day grief support initiative from My Grief Angels Inc. The submission has no connection to food and beverage operations, hospitality technology, brand launch, media buying, or any of the five editorial lanes this publication serves.
We publish operator-intelligence dispatches for restaurants, hotels, suppliers, and the agencies and vendors that support them. That means growth marketing, AI adoption, brand launch strategy, procurement shifts, and menu and labor trends — not general-interest lifestyle content, however worthy the underlying cause.
For operators and vendors considering a submission or paid placement: relevance is the first filter. F&B Department's audience is a working professional reading between a line-check and a buyer meeting. Every dispatch we publish should hand that reader a number, a signal, or a next action they can use before end of day. A grief-support nonprofit bundle, regardless of its merit as a public service, does not clear that bar.
If you represent a brand, supplier, agency, or technology vendor with a genuine hospitality story — a distribution expansion, a new AI-enabled procurement tool, a regional media buy, a retail launch targeting on-premise accounts — submit through the Marketplace lane or review our Brand Launch Department coverage to understand the editorial standard we apply before you pitch.
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.