Experience

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  The Foodservice Institute

  • Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

  • President/Owner

    • Jan 1989 - Present
    • Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

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  Veteran's Suppport Network

  • President

    • Mar 2012 - Present

    We are a 501(c)(3) charitable entity, with grant writers ready to start finding funds for homeless, wounded and other vets who have passed their VA eligibility, helping them to gain certifications which will boost their ability to get GOOD jobs after someone else gets them off the street. Also targeting blind persons in the food business, vets or not, and supporting the activities of the Military Hospitality Alliance, which Ed founded, and which hosts a Military Culinary Competition and the Enlisted Aide of the Year Award, both held annually in Washington, DC. Companies who want to join the effort can offer funds from THEIR (c)(3).

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  E. H. Manley and Associates (now known as Foodservice Institute)

  • Owner

    • Mar 1989 - Present

    Specializing in association management and since 2003 providing food safety and food service management training and certifications to over 3700 people who earned over 10,000 certifications. Focused on military personnel, who use the certifications to get promotions in the military and jobs after. Also providing food safety training for visually impaired food service folks in Southern Nevada.

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  International Food Service Executives Association

  • Worldwide

  • President Emeritus

    • May 2021 - Present
    • Worldwide

    IFSEA started in 1901, the first food service association in the United States.

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  Military Culinary Competition

  • MHA Founder

    • 2009 - 2011

    I created the Military Hospitality Alliance in order to focus attention on the special needs of military food service personnel, and also to put them in contact with the civilian world. Also co-created the Military Culinary Competition and the Enlisted Aide of the Year Award, both starting in 2003 and both held in Washington DC. We recently held the 10th culinary competition and 11th enlisted aide award. At the end of 2013, we have given just over $100,000 in prize money to military personnel.

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  IFSEA

  • President

    • 1989 - 2008

    I booked and managed the IFSEA conventions, built the certification program, raised funds, networked with the 2000+ members, organized the events for the awarding of best food service in the Army, Navy, Military Sealift Command and, at the time, Marine Corps.

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  Creative Food Concepts

  • President

    • Jan 1985 - Mar 1989

    A Food Service Management Company specializing in catered functions, outdoor events and private school food service. We also operated food service in 3 Christian schools for about 3 years.

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  North Broward Medical Center

  • Food Service Director

    • Mar 1981 - Mar 1989

    A 400 bed hospital in Fort Lauderdale, FL We took the hospital from a myriad of news making problems to one of the top hospital foodservice operations in South Florida. I used my connections through the IFSEA network to find awesome chefs and assistants.

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  US Navy

  • Lieutenant Commander

    • Aug 1959 - Sep 1980

    Chief Hospital Corpsmen (HMC), commissioned in 1970 and retired as a Lieutenant Commander, Medical Service Corps. I managed the Radiology Department at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, and then served as Asst. Food Service Director there. Other duty stations included the USS Saratoga, Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Marine Corps medic in Camp Lejeune and participating in the Bay of Pigs invasion, Keflavik, Iceland and the Naval Academy.