Chefs, Colleagues, and Friends,
Thank you for a great 2018.
As we move past the winter holidays and enter this new year, we have much to be thankful this past year. We accomplished a lot to be proud of:

• Supported Joe DiMaggio Children's hospital and Butterfly release raising $200 in donations
• Supported San Ignacio University's Holiday tasting raising over $300 in donations
• Held Quarterly Meetings where each meeting had over 30 attendees
• Introduced our members to various tastings and educational seminars that included meat fabrication, tea tasting sake tasting, local farm presentations, equipment presentations, wine tastings, cheese tastings, chocolate tastings, and a whole lot of good networking and camaraderie
• Gave away 3 student ACF membership scholarships to deserving young culinarians

Your board has been busy planning for this new year and we will look forward to seeing you at our Quarterly meetings, the first to be held at ARC Broward on Thursday March 14th at 4:00 pm, so please mark your calendars. Details to come.
Our goals remain the same for this year as they were this past year:

• Have really great meetings that drive your attendance to them
• Drive increases in membership
• Recognize our student culinarians
• Maintain and continue to improve our finances

Thank you so much for your continued support of our great organization. We are what we make of everything, so lets continue to make our chapter great together in this new year. See you at the next meeting.

Thanks,
John