Now in its 90th year, the annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show is the largest and most comprehensive gathering of restaurant, foodservice, lodging and retail professionals in the Western Hemisphere. The 2009 Show will be held May 16-19 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The Show attracts nearly 2,000 exhibiting companies and 70,000 attendees and visitors from all 50 states and 100+ countries. More information can be found on the Show Web site at www.restaurant.org/show.
NRA Show 2008 featured a number of educational sessions on sustainability (purchase audio recordings here for any NRA Show 2008 session and many of its exhibitors featured the latest in green products and technologies.
If one in four people avoided the free glass of water at a restaurant, the entire industry would conserve more than 26 million gallons of water a year.
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