Warren Leeds to Speak at Cornell School of Hotel Administration
Food service entrepreneur
ITHACA, NY, Februar 25, 2009 - Warren Leeds will be the featured speaker in the Conversations with Entrepreneurs series to be presented next Tuesday, March 3rd, by the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration.
Leeds will present from 4:15-5:30 p.m. in 198 Statler Hall. He will dine with selected students after the event and will meet the next day with students, staff and faculty.
A graduate of the school, Leeds is president and co-founder of Dartcor Management Services. In that capacity he has overseen various company-owned restaurants and entrepreneurial start-ups since 1985. Leeds and partner Christopher Schiavone launched their business by opening Ome Deli and Caterers, a retail gourmet deli and catering business in northern New Jersey. Over time Ome broadened its traditional catering services to include corporate food service management under the name of Dartcor. Today the firm is a premier regional food service company serving corporate clients in New Jersey and New York.
The Conversations with Entrepreneurs series is sponsored by Hotelie Entrepreneurs, Cornell Hospitality Advisors, and eClips.
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