MCCS Recognizes Food and Hospitality Activities
Sixty MCCS restaurant and hospitality activities are recognized for their exceptional performance in 2018 with Food and Hospitality Excellence Awards. The Food and Hospitality Excellence Award Program was established by Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) to recognize restaurant and hospitality activities that exceed the highest level of operational excellence and service.
The award program allows any club, restaurant, snack bar, or lodging facility, regardless of size or location, to measure their results against criteria in pre-established categories of customer service, financial performance, human resources development, and operational excellence.
“The Food & Hospitality Excellence Awards afford my team and me the pleasure of recognizing top-performing clubs, restaurants and TLFs each year. Day in and day out, our Food and Hospitality teams inject energy, creativity and positivity into their daily service of Marines, sailors and their families,” said Ric Pomeroy, Branch Head, Food, Hospitality and Commercial Recreation, Business and Support Services Division. “I am particularly thrilled to welcome the Tun Tavern Enlisted Club, 1st MCD Garden City, NY; The Roadhouse Restaurant at MCAS Cherry Point, NC; and Life Juice Café restaurants at MCB Camp Butler, Okinawa JP to the ranks of first time winners this year.”
The criterion to achieve this award focuses well beyond financial performance; to achieve an Excellence Award, activities must be agile and seasoned, and place the customer at the center of all they do.
“Our entire organization salutes our Food and Hospitality Excellence Award Winners,” said Cindy Whitman Lacy, Director, Business and Support Services Division, HQMC. “The high performance of these activities embody our strategic vision of being the iconic business force of the armed services. Hospitality businesses are all about taking exceptional care of customers and generating preference and loyalty. They are truly the “crème de la crème” of MCCS Food and Hospitality programs.”
Maj. Gen. Edward Banta, Commander, Marine Corps Installations Command, Assistant Deputy Commandant Installations & Logistics, Facilities added “Our Marines, Sailors, civilian Marines, and families all deserve the highest quality of community support services. This year’s selection of 60 Excellence Award winners demonstrates our ability to meet those expectations. It takes a team of dedicated professionals on each installation to go above and beyond the status quo. I applaud each member of the Marine Corps Community Services team and the installation support personnel that were integral to setting an outstanding standard.”
To recognize this achievement, the activities will receive award plaques that will be displayed in the facilities. For more information about the Marine Corps Food and Hospitality Excellence Award Program contact Ric Pomeroy, Branch Head – Food, Hospitality and Commercial Recreation, at 703-784-3811 or pomeroyk@usmc-mccs.org.
2018 MARINE CORPS LODGE OF THE YEAR
Inns of the Corps Iwakuni – MCAS Iwakuni, JP
2018 MARINE CORPS CLUB OF THE YEAR
The Warrior Enlisted Club – MCAGCC Twentynine Palms, CA
2018 RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
Taiyo Steakhouse – MCB Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa, JP
COMPLETE LIST OF 2018 FOOD AND HOSPITALITY AWARD WINNERS
MCAGCC TWENTYNINE PALMS
- Inns of the Corps Twentynine Palms
- Starbucks
- Warrior Enlisted Club
1st MCD GARDEN CITY
- Tun Tavern Enlisted Club
MCB QUANTICO
- Inns of the Corps Quantico
- Hawkins Officers’ Club
MCCS LEJEUNE - NEW RIVER
- SNCO Club
- Inns of the Corps Lejeune
- Onslow Beach Resort
- Spare Time Sports Grill
- The Landing at New River
- Paradise Point Officers’ Club
- Heroz Restaurant Ball Center
MCCS SOUTH CAROLINA
- Beaufort Officers’ Club
- Inns of the Corps Beaufort
- Java Café Visitors Center
- Sand Trap Snack Bar
- Parris Island Food Court
MCAS CHERRY POINT
- Library Café
- The Roadhouse
- Mayberry Café
- New City Deli
- Snack-A-Tach Snack Bar
- Hungry Harrier Snack Bar
MCB CAMP PENDLETON
- Inns of the Corps Pendleton Pacific Views
- Inns of the Corps Pendleton Ward Lodge
- Del Mar Beach Resort
- Lake O’Neill RV Park
MCAS YUMA
- Afterburners Restaurant
- Sunset Lanes Snack Bar
- Inns of the Corps Yuma
MCAS MIRAMAR
- Inns of the Corps Miramar
MCB HAWAII
- Starbucks
- Inns of the Corps Hawaii
- Lava Java Coffee Truck
- Klipper Recreational Lodging
- Strikers Grill & Tap
- Sunset Lanai Consolidated Club
- Kahuna’s Sports Bar & Grill E Club
- PACOM Food Court
- Aloha Kitchen
- Rocker Room at Kaneohe Bay SNCO Club
- Flying Leatherneck Inn Snack Bar
MCB CAMP BUTLER
- Terra Fusion Restaurant
- Shisa Pizza Foster Bowling Center
- Habu Pit Consolidated Club
- Hashmarks SNCO Club
- Surfside Consolidated Club
- The Palms Consolidated Club
- Ocean Breeze Consolidated Club
- Taiyo Steakhouse
- Life Juice Café Courtney
- Life Juice Café Hansen
- Life Juice Café Foster
- Inns of the Corps Camp Foster
- Inns of the Corps Camp Courtney
MCAS IWAKUNI
- Club Iwakuni
- Inns of the Corps Iwakuni
- Sakura Auditorium Snack Bar
- Hangar Enlisted Club