Deanne Maples with the Florida Beef Council shares an update on what the Florida Beef Council has been involved in recently.
“The Florida Beef Council participated in the Halpern’s Food Show at the Brevard County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale. For those who are unfamiliar, Halpern’s is a specialty meat company, a very large one, and this show brings together their customers,” said Maples.
“That’s restaurant, retail, and culinary professionals from across Florida, particularly South Florida, as well as customers from the Caribbean, Central, and South America, which was pretty neat. Our chairman Rick Hartman joined me and we stayed very busy all day. This is such an important audience for us because these are the people who are deciding what goes on menus, what ends up in the meat case at your local retail shop, and ultimately what is ending up on the plates of our consumers,” Maples added…