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Join us at the Menus of Change
National Leadership Summit

June 4-5, 2025 | Hyde park, ny


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Menus of Change®: The Business of Healthy, Sustainable, Delicious Food Choices

This ground-breaking initiative from The Culinary Institute of America and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health works to realize a long-term, practical vision integrating optimal nutrition, public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice industry and the culinary profession.

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National Leadership Summit

 

Schedule

We will hold our 2025 Menus of Change Summit as a two-day in person program at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. The eleventh edition of this CIA leadership program featured high-impact, interactive, and educational content from June 4-5, 2025.

presenters

Our 2025 summit will gather business leaders, scientists, chefs, and other food systems experts who will spark conversations about sustainability and personal wellness, and will arm you with strategies to accelerate the changes our industry, and planet, need to survive.

webcast

Watch videos of all General Sessions from our past conference.

Plant-Forward Kitchen

The Plant-Forward Kitchen includes an evolving set of resources to advance plant-forward culinary strategies.

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Resources

 

Plant-Forward by the numbers

A CIA-Harvard collaboration, this report aggregates health, environmental, consumer, and business data from just before the outbreak of COVID-19, and has all the data you’ll need to make the business case for building future menu directions in your organization around these imperatives.

2024 Plant-Forward opportunity

This annual report, now in its fourth year, confirms that the macro trend of plant-forward and flexitarian eating are still very much alive and shaping consumer preferences in 2024.

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six lessons from the pandemic

Critical lessons from the COVID-19 health crisis that can inspire how we think about the future of food and opportunities for the restaurant and foodservice industry.

Compass Group chefs and Registered Dietitian Nutritionists have seen tremendous value in our participation in Menus of Change since the inception. We have been inspired to take action in all of our businesses to create environmentally friendly menu options that promote both personal and planetary well-being in a business savvy way.
— Deanne Brandstetter, MBA, RD, Vice President of Nutrition & Wellness, Compass Group USA
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