September 11-15th, 2006
Each year,
chambers across America celebrate Chamber of Commerce Week. This year,
celebrations of many kinds will be held September 11th through the 15th.
The Carol Stream Chamber celebrated it. One of the ways was "Dine With
the Director" where Executive Director, Luanne Triolo, dined at Chamber
member restaurants for Breakfast, Lunch AND Dinner. Receiving the
scheduled locations and times ahead of time, ambitious members planned
ahead and met her to celebrate Chamber Week, while making new business
associates.
DIARY OF A DINING DIRECTOR:
Maplebery was the first stop and I was joined by Patrick Bartel/Bartel's
Auto Clinic and Cindy Allston/Western DuPage Special Recreation
Association.
Next
was RoccoVino's and Jane Hodgkinson/WDSRA and Franco
Coladipietro/Friends for Franco Coladipietro lunched with me.
The TacoMaker was the place where Mike Ashby/DuPage County Farm Bureau,
Karen Malcom and Darrel Malcom/Brust Preplanning dined with me.
Pancakes were on
my plate at Red Apple Pancake House and Perry Johnson/Echo Entertainment
kept me company.
Nan/Chamber, Carol Mitchell/Hampton Inn, Christie Ruffino/Total Staffing
and Amy Adams/Culver's joined in on "Dine With the Director" at
Culver's.
Brian's Charhouse was the dinner stop. After chatting with Brian Toska/Brian's,
I was joined by Cindy Cain/The IRA Store, Marina Collazo/ServiceMaster
and her friend, Teri, Paul-the-bartender/Brian's and special guest,
Scott Stemple/DuPage Auto Bath.
While
at Augustino's Rock & Roll Deli dining on a breakfast sandwich, Chris
Oakley/Village of Carol Stream joined Cathy and Jerry Morelli/Augustino's
and myself.
Outreach
Community Center was the location for our monthly luncheon and I was
joined by over 60 hungry members!
Fox and
Hound was the Wednesday evening stop and they have Ladies' Night every
Wednesday! John Fioti/Law Offices of John Fioti, Michele Saxman/Rapid
Rentals, Lynn Tumminaro/Advantage National Bank and Natalie Meletsis/Fox
& Hound 'networked' with me.
Thursday
morning began at Carol's Garden and I was joined for breakfast by Don
Oppermann/Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Denise Devitt/AMCORE, Nancy
Thomas, Family Foods-Pharmacy, Ken Hannah/West Suburban Bank and Mike
Griffiths/AMCORE.
Renee
Vennero/Harris, Nan Gudenkauf/Chamber, Ern Kovacs/FASTSIGNS, Ann
Kennedy/Carol Stream Public Library, Dale Crittenden/DuPage Cellular,
Darrel Malcom & Karen Malcom/Brust Preplanning, John Marciniak and Chuck
Ranweiler/Carol Stream Police joined Won Song/Jimmy John's and me at the
Army Trail location of Jimmy John's.
After
the board meeting, we met at the Village Tavern: Jim Hodgdon/The HBC
Group, Mike Holmgren/Accounting Network, Dick O'Gorman/Foxfire, Darrel
Malcom/Brust Preplanning, Cindy Cain/The IRA Store, Mary Ahart/Cody's,
Greg Moore/G Allen Moore Landscaping, Cindy Kopp/Mary Kay Cosmetics.
As
the week drew to an end, Alberto's in the Holiday Inn was the last
breakfast with the following joining me: Nan Gudenkauf/Chamber, George
King/George King and Associates, Peter Pell/Holiday Inn, Terri Kwasnik/Holiday
Inn, Chad Schultenover/Holiday Inn, Sue Widerski/Holiday Inn.
Both Ruth from Old Country Buffet and GM Tony Fico from Old Country
Buffet dined with me for lunch there ...delicious!
The week ended at Cody's Food and Fun on Main -- joining me was a FUN
bunch Pam and Wayne Fenner/, Michele Saxman/Rapid Rentals, Mary
Ahart/Cody's, Cindy Cain/The IRA Store and visitor Michael
Bartholomew/Forge.
TRI-FECTAS - I'd like to thank all the wonderful members who hosted us and all who participated and made this a lot of fun. I did have three people who met me THREE times -- Darrel Malcom/Brust Preplanning, Cindy Cain/The IRA Store and Michele Saxman/Rapid Rentals. WDSRA showed up with various people FOUR times -- kudos!