The Virtual Breakfast Sessions (VBS) are produced by Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates. They are part of a series of Zoom, interactive roundtable discussions based on Hospitality, Foodservice and the chain of businesses that service the industry. Using Zoom’s Chat feature the audience has direct contact with a designated panel member who will direct all pertinent questions or statements to the panel for consideration and response. We look forward to your participation. Participation in the events can be accessed at the Virtual Breakfast Session event page.
Virtual Breakfast Sessions
Virtual Breakfast Session on April 3 Talks High Hopes Vs. High Responsibility
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on April 3 at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #58 “Being David in a Goliath World”.
Virtual Breakfast Session on March 20 Looks At Innovations in Private Club Management
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on March 20 at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #57 “Innovations in Private Club Management 2024”...
Virtual Breakfast Session on March 6 Chats With Produce Pulse Podcast’s Julio Garcia
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on March 6 at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #56: Coffee with the Produce Pulse: Julio Garcia and the Art of Menu Innovation.
Virtual Breakfast Session on February 7 Honors MVP Contributors
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on February 7 at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #54: “Class of 2023 VBS Hall of Fame Inductions” as we honor Joyce Appelman, Peter Herrero, Jr., and Yvan Lemoine. All three have contributed from the hotseat and the audience. Join in at https://totalfood.info/vbs-tix
Virtual Breakfast Session on January 24 Asks What Has Tipping Become?
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on January 24 at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #53: Tipping - Reward, Supplement or Imposition?
Virtual Breakfast Session on January 3 Talks New Rules and Regulations for 2024
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on January 3 at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #52: New Rules and Regs for 2024.
Virtual Breakfast Session Chats With Lou Biscotti on September 20
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on September 20th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #47: Coffee With... Lou Biscotti.
Virtual Breakfast Session Chats With Chef Alon Shaya on September 6
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on September 6th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #46: Coffee With... Alon Shaya.
Virtual Breakfast Session on August 24th Discusses Food Inflation
Join TFS and L. Sashin on August 24th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #45: “Food Inflation and Your Restaurant”
Virtual Breakfast Session Chats With Restaurateur David Burke on August 9
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on August 9th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #44: Coffee With... David Burke. Anyone can go to Google and see that David Burke was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Hazlet, NJ. That he attended...
Virtual Breakfast Session on July 26th Explores Cannabis In Restaurants
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on July 26th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #43: “The Country is Going to Pot! Will Foodservice Follow?” Remember “Reefer Madness”? For those of to you too young to remember, to vain to admit...
Virtual Breakfast Session on July 12th Explores Restaurant Tipping
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on July 12th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #42: “Tipping: The ELEPHANT in the Dining Room”. The practice of tipping began in Tudor England. In medieval times, tipping was a master-serf custom wherein a servant would receive extra money...
Virtual Breakfast Session on June 29th Explores Hospitality Team Building
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on June 29th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #41: “No Man(ager) Is An Island - Team Building In 2023.” The Indeed Career Guide defines "Business Manager” as: “A business manager is a supervisor who...
Virtual Breakfast Session on June 14th Explores The California Foodservice Instant Rebate Program
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on June 14th at 12:00pm ET (9am Pacific) for Virtual Breakfast Session #40: “The California Foodservice Instant Rebate Program”. Hey, we all know that restaurant operational prices have skyrocketed. Food, labor and...
Virtual Breakfast Session Chats With TFS Publisher Fred Klashman on June 7
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on June 7th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #39: Coffee With... Fred Klashman. For 32 years Fred Klashman has been the man with camera, pen and pad in hand, a smile on his face and the right questions...
Virtual Breakfast Session on May 17th Explores Hospitality Exit Strategies
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on May 17th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #38: “It’s been an amazing run, but what’s your exit strategy?” Your business is doing amazingly well. You want to keep it thriving, but you finally want to retire...
Virtual Breakfast Session Chats With Restaurateur Peter Herrero on May 3
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on May 3rd at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #37 Coffee With... Peter Herrero. A 15-year-old dishwasher of Cuban descent had a dream. He dreamt that at 24 he’d own his own restaurant. 2 years later...
Virtual Breakfast Session on April 19th Explores Hospitality in 2023
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on April 19th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #36: Hospitality in 2023: Is there trouble brewing in the dining room? Look at the menu and you know what’s cooking in the kitchen, but there’s something...
Virtual Breakfast Session on March 22nd Explores Food Safety On The Menu
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on March 22nd at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #35: Food Safety, Is It Part of Your Regular Menu? There are good reviews and bad reviews and then there's reviews like this one from Yelp...
Virtual Breakfast Session Chats With Entrepreneur Liz Neumark on Feb 8
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on February 8th at 8:45am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #32 Coffee With... Liz Neumark. When Robert Frost wrote the poem, “The Road Not Taken”, I doubt he was aware that he had outlined a path to success for Liz Neumark...
Virtual Breakfast Session on Jan 11 Talks Technology and Prepping for the Future
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on January 11th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #31: Technology and Prepping for the Future. With today’s volatile business climate, it’s extremely important not to sell yourself out of business. If you don’t have a handle...
Virtual Breakfast Session Chats With Chef/Owner Yvan Lemoine on Dec 14
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on November 30th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #29 Coffee With... Peter Herrero. On November 30th @ 9:00am ET, the Virtual Breakfast Sessions launch the first of a new type of discussion called Coffee with…
Virtual Breakfast Session Chats With Restaurateur Peter Herrero on Nov 30
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on November 30th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #29 Coffee With... Peter Herrero. On November 30th @ 9:00am ET, the Virtual Breakfast Sessions launch the first of a new type of discussion called Coffee with…
Virtual Breakfast Session Talks Health and Wellness in the Workplace on Nov 16
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on November 16th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #28 Health and Wellness in the Workplace. Waitstaff and runners moving at high speeds, sometimes with heavy trays of food and drinks through tight spaces where oblivious patrons just...
Virtual Breakfast Session Talks Event & Catering Season Tips on Nov 2
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on November 2nd at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #27 It’s Event and Catering Season…Last Minute Tips. It’s just another sign of the “Next Normal”. When was the last time you went to a store and saw Halloween, Thanksgiving and...
Virtual Breakfast Session Discusses “1” Thing Your Kitchen Needs on Oct 19
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on October 19th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #26: "The “1” Thing Your Kitchen Needs". Unless you live in a cave on a remote island you’ve noticed that the restaurant industry has had problems. The health crisis, its resulting shortages...
Virtual Breakfast Session Discusses City Vs. Local on Sept 28
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on September 28th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #25: "Expectations / Reality -Manhattan vs. the 4 Other Boroughs & the Burbs". In years past Manhattan was the center of the Northeast’s culinary world. If you wanted to entertain and...
Virtual Breakfast Sessions Discuss The Promoters on Sept 14
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on September 14th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #24: “The Promoters”. Have you heard the one about the new Broadway show with great stars, a Tony award winning writer, and an EGOT director that didn’t tell anyone that it was opening?
Virtual Breakfast Sessions Discuss Stretching Your Dollar on August 24
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on August 24th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #23: “Squeezing $1.25 out of every $1 you spend”. It’s come to my attention that almost everyone that I speak to sounds more and more like my Grandpa Morris. No, people haven’t picked up his accent...
Virtual Breakfast Sessions Discuss “The Disruptors” on August 10
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on August 10th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #22: “The Disruptors”. When reacting to life changing events, some businesspeople fold. Some tread water. Some try to go with the flow. And then there’s those that look at what they’ve done...
Virtual Breakfast Sessions Discuss Healthier Menu Options for ROI on July 27
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on July 27th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #21: “What are They Eating Over There?” So, what’s the correlation between a diner looking at a plate being served at the next table and an increase in people in seats and a higher ROI?
Virtual Breakfast Sessions Discuss Hospitality Evolution on July 13th
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on July 13th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #20: “What is Hospitality in 2022”. The restaurant, catering and hospitality business has always been hard, but with work, a good concept and efficient systems it was a...
Virtual Breakfast Sessions Discuss Cryptocurrency on June 22nd
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on June 22nd at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #19: Crypto Made Less Cryptic. The restaurant, catering, bar and hospitality business has always been hard, but with work, a good concept and efficient systems it was a doable, profitable and...
Virtual Breakfast Sessions Discuss Growth Vs. Adversity on June 8th
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on June 8th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #18: Bucking the Pandemic/Slowdown Tide. The restaurant, catering, bar and hospitality business has always been hard, but with work, a good concept and efficient systems it was a doable, profitable and...
Virtual Breakfast Sessions To Discuss Club Dining on May 25th
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on May 25th at 9:00am ET for Virtual Breakfast Session #17: What’s Happening at the Club? The restaurant, catering, bar and hospitality business has always been hard, but with work, a good concept and efficient systems it was a doable, profitable...
Virtual Breakfast Sessions Discuss Staffing Shortfall Solutions on April 13th
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on April 13th at 9:00 for Virtual Breakfast Session #16: Staffing Shortfalls-Changing the Work Environment & Tapping Tomorrow’s Talent Today! The restaurant, bar and hospitality business has always hard, but with work...
L. Sashin and TFS Virtual Breakfast Session on Feb 23rd Explores Latest Restaurant & Hospitality Trends
L Sashin and Associates and Total Food Service (TFS) are set to host a series of virtual breakfast sessions on the web. “Our goal is to help the restaurant and foodservice industry take advantage of the perspective that we have been able to gain in working with clients in a wide...
DiSpirito Heads All-Star Cast for This Wed, Feb. 9th’s Virtual Breakfast Session
Join Total Food Service and L. Sashin & Associates on February 9th at 9:00 for Virtual Breakfast Session #14: Changing Perceptions… How do we get the consumer to look at “Alt-Meat” as just another good food choice?
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