Vote for New City Microcreamery to win the Food for Thought Leadership Award: Vote Now!
New City Microcreamery has been named a Toasty Awards finalist in Food for Thought Leadership honoring the teams dedication to giving back to the Hudson and Cambridge community by growing young entrepreneurs, helping youth understand financial literacy (through an open book management program), and teaching them to run a business by creating a culture focused on education and transparency.
The third annual Toasty Awards will celebrate the hard work and ingenuity of the diverse restaurant community. Toast will name the 2020 award winners on January 29, 2020. “We’re pleased to have the opportunity to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the Toast restaurant community,” said Aman Narang, president, and co-founder of Toast. “The 2020 Toasty Awards finalists are 20 top examples of outstanding leadership in the restaurant industry.”
New City Microcreamery was selected out of nearly 500 submitted entries as a Food for Thought Leadership finalist. Winners - selected by public vote - are eligible to receive prizes including a year of Toast software, a $15,000 donation to a charity of their choice, and a sponsored staff celebration. “Food for Thought Leadership” finalists which commend a restaurant that has pushed the industry forward through innovative hospitality and strong core values.
New City Microcreamery has advocated for grants totaling $100,000 to apply to financial literacy classes and education for their entire staff. Staff are eligible for profit sharing and learn about the business through its transparent business model based on Open Book Management. “We know that our teenagers and youth need a place to experience their first job. We want that first experience to be impressionable and to lead them down a path of self-discovery beyond their wildest dreams,” says Jason Kleinerman, Partner of New City Microcreamery.
New City Microcreamery’s Ice Cream Shop team was the first in Massachusetts to implement the Great Game of Business along with sister restaurant Rail Trail Flatbread Company. “We found ourselves in a unique position to write our own playbook leveraging our core principles. The restaurant industry has a uniquely high level of turnover which presents the opportunity for our team to find the solution to create a consistent Great Game of Business culture. When thinking about the solution, we found an important part was connecting hospitality training and embedding it with our financial training in order to have the highest level of impact and engagement on our young staff at New City Microcreamery,” says Kleinerman.
