The team at Restaurant Business has been named finalist for 11 Jesse H. Neal Awards, the premier honor in business-to-business journalism.
The majority of the nominations are the result of team collaborations that included the entire editorial staff, alongside senior digital producer Kimberly Kaczmarek and senior art director Nico Heins.
“The number of finalists proves again that nobody can beat Restaurant Business for quality and consistency of industry coverage,” said Jonathan Maze, Restaurant Business editor-in-chief. “I could not be prouder of this team for the great work they do day in and day out.”
Neal Award winners will be announced at a luncheon at the Yale Club in New York City on May 16.
Here are the Restaurant Business finalist nominations:
- The series on climate change is a finalist for two awards: Best Series and Best Climate Change Coverage
- Best Commentary: Jonathan Maze on restaurant finance
- Best Industry Coverage: Third-party delivery
- Best News Coverage: Special report on restaurant bankruptcies
- Best Podcast: Restaurant Daily, a joint production of Restaurant Business and Nation’s Restaurant News
- Best Profile: Everytable
- Best Range of Work by a Media Brand
- Best Range of Work by a Single Author: Lisa Jennings
- Best Subject-Related Package: Labor Pains
- Best Technical/Scientific Content: Artificial intelligence in the restaurant industry.
Presented annually by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) to recognize and reward editorial excellence in business media, the finalists this year also included several Restaurant Business sister brands within parent company Informa Connect, a division of Informa PLC, including Nation’s Restaurant News (Best Editorial Use of Data), Foodservice Director (Best Coverage of the 2024 Election; Best Profile ), CSP Daily News (Best Single Issue, Top 202), Supermarket News, Waste Dive, HR Dive, Utility Dive and Wealth Management Edge.
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