Richardson Seating was present at the Bar and Restaurant Expo.

Richardson Seating was present at the Bar and Restaurant Expo.

As one of the main players in the upholstery and furniture industry, Richardson Seating had the privilege of participating in such prestigious event.

Bar and Restaurant Expo, the country's biggest and most powerful assembling of bar and eatery proprietors and administrators got back to the Las Vegas Convention Center on March 21 - 23. Previously known as Nightclub and Bar Show, the 36th yearly feature celebrated one more colossally effective year, supporting participation to well more than 10,000 participants. The three-day exhibition highlighted an amazing absolute of 350 exhibitors and more than 80 gathering meetings with industry experts, as well as an intelligent Restaurant Zone, Sports Bar, Food and Beverage Innovation Center, an assortment of instructive studios, bootcamps, item dispatches, featured discussion and that's just the beginning.

The progress to Bar and Restaurant Expo in 2022 included numerous massive changes to the grandstand, including intuitive corners, item encounters with ongoing administrator criticism, and an in general vivid climate. The advancement of the brand lines up with the quick friendliness industry and expands the broadness and profundity of the crowd of the exhibition to incorporate food purchasers, food and drink chiefs, food merchants, culinary experts, as well as other key partners inside the food administration area.

The exhibition floor was authoritatively opened to participants with a stylized strip cutting by resigned NASCAR driver and prime supporter of City Lights Shine, Brendan Gaughan and Bar and Restaurant Group Vice President Tim McLucas. Gaughan and McLucas strolled the elegant honorary pathway which likewise went before the launch of the exhibition floor where large numbers of the most compelling names in the business entered the exhibition in style including, BRE Executive Council Members Mia Mastroianni and David Kaplan; big name gourmet expert Brian Duffy; Food and Beverage Innovation Kitchen culinary specialists Jennifer Behm-Lazzarni, Kayla Robison, Chad Rosenthal, Kevin Des Chenes; Co-originator of The Spirits in Motion, Phil Wills; Founder and Visionary of FIG Brand Strategy Firm TaChelle Lawson; Mixologist and Owner of Japp's Bar Molly Wellman; Co-originator of Invictus Hospitality Michael Tipps; Chef Adrian Lipscombe of Uptown Café and Bakery; and Dennis McKinley of Detroit Equities.

On the red carpet, Tim McLucas presented a $5,000 check on behalf of Bar & Restaurant Expo to the official charity partner of the year, Children of Restaurant Employees, or CORE, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing relief to those effected by disasters around the globe. Bar & Restaurant Expo also generously donated a sizable amount of food that went unused at this year’s expo to Nevada’s largest food bank, Three Square. Tim McLucas, Vice President of the Bar & Restaurant Group stated, “We are thrilled to have hosted the 36th annual event, and the first under our new name Bar & Restaurant Expo. Our expansion into the Restaurant category has already significantly increased the number of restaurants participating, and enhanced the education program. It is clear from the rapid growth in our attendance numbers since 2021 that the industry is now back to business and eager to leverage this new growth opportunity”.

Bar & Restaurant Expo capped off a stellar year with the 2022 Industry Excellence Awards ceremony. These awards, presented by expo sponsor sunday, were designed to recognize, celebrate, and support the people who make the independent bar and restaurant industry great. The prestigious awards, including categories like community leadership, innovator of the year, most original concept, and many more, were presented by Mia Mastroianni and Molly Wellman

About Bar and Restaurant Expo Bar and Restaurant Expo, previously known as Nightclub and Bar Show, has kept on developing to reflect the speedy, pattern setting nature of the neighborliness business. The occasion has been giving the particular instruments that bar and café proprietors, administrators, and chiefs need to develop their organizations, contend, and prevail in this hyper-serious and dynamic industry. The Bar and Restaurant Group is a division of the Questex Hospitality Group which additionally creates Vibe Conference, World Tea Conference + Expo, and day to day satisfied on barandrestaurant.com.

About Questex

Questex assists people with live bettering and longer. Questex unites individuals in the business sectors that assist people with live bettering: travel, friendliness and wellbeing; the ventures that assist with peopling live longer: life science and medical care; and the advances that empower and fuel these new encounters. We live in the experience economy - associating our biological system through live occasions, encompassed by information bits of knowledge and computerized networks. We convey insight and genuine outcomes.

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