ProStart®: Sponsorship

Get involved in the restaurant and foodservice industry's leading career-building program for high school students who are interested in culinary arts and foodservice management.

Over two challenging and rewarding years, ProStart students experience classroom study, mentored work experiences, and local and national competitions. ProStart works for parents, teachers, the restaurant and foodservice industry, and the approximately 80,000 students in more than 1,650 schools, and across 47 states, territories and districts that participate annually.

Your generous financial, product and equipment donations not only help ProStart students and schools, but also gives you an opportunity to build a lifetime connection with tomorrow's restaurant and foodservice leaders.

How to Get Involved

Become a national program sponsor and connect with future leaders of the restaurant and foodservice industry who are your future employees or consumers of your products. Positively position your brand with students and educators to create career-long relationships. Recruit tomorrow's managers today.

Among other activities, your sponsorship supports:

  • A network of students and educators in 47 states, territories and districts
  • Efforts to develop and maintain articulation agreements with nearly 60 of the country's leading hospitality colleges and universities
  • Comprehensive Summer Institutes for restaurant management and culinary arts educators - week-long workshops attended by more than 225 educators annually

To learn more about ProStart sponsorship opportunities, contact:

Bill Nolan
wnolan@restaurant.org
312-715-5359