The 2021 Nightclub & Bar Show announces CORE and Southern Smoke, non-profits benefiting families of food and beverage service employees, as the official charities for this year’s convention, happening June 28-30, 2021.
A long-time charity partner with the Nightclub & Bar Show, and sister-show VIBE Conference, Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE) is a national nonprofit dedicated to serving food and beverage employees with children to provide financial relief when either the parent or their child faces a health crisis, injury, death, or natural disaster.
“Food and beverage service employees who face a qualifying life crisis can turn to CORE: Children of Restaurant Employees,” said Sheila Bennett, executive director of CORE. “We’re grateful to Questex’s Nightclub & Bar Show whose contributions to our grants program will provide financial support to qualified employees when they need us.”
For the first time, Nightclub & Bar Show is also partnering with Southern Smoke. The non-profit also helps food and beverage service employees and has successfully provided relief funds throughout all 50 states toward those battling health crisis, natural disasters, mental health, the COVID-19 pandemic and more.
“We’re so grateful that Southern Smoke is a beneficiary of the Nightclub & Bar Show this year,” said Chris Shepherd, co-founder of the Southern Smoke Foundation. “Bar and restaurant employees were devastated by the pandemic, and this partnership with Nightclub & Bar Show will do so much to provide relief—and awareness about the Emergency Relief Fund—for these folks. Southern Smoke provides relief year-round for food and beverage workers in crisis, and we’re so glad to partner with them at this upcoming event.”
The Nightclub & Bar Show will donate $12,500 to both CORE and Southern Smoke in efforts to support the backbone of the food and beverage community. Both charities will have an interactive booth on the Nightclub & Bar Show expo floor and will be speaking during the conference program on their work, their missions and opening up channels of communication for industry workers in need of their services.
To learn more about registration or other programs and activations at the 2021 Nightclub & Bar Show June 28 – 30, 2021, visit www.ncbshow.com. Nightclub & Bar Show is a trade event and not open to the general public.
