Vanderbilt, Dall, Ayeiy Set Off

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Feast Fest Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt, Head Scouter Jim Dall, and Executive Assistant and Vanderbilt Second-in-Command Arthur Ayeiy have left the Marina in the middle of Feast Fest Meeting & Conference Week for the start of a 30-city, 11-day global trek.

Vanderbilt ironically was not able to stay through the entirety of "Managerial Thursday", rather making a short 8 a.m. opening speech and a 10 a.m. commemoration of former chef Mei Okoworth before setting off with Jimmy and Arty.

The threesome was about an hour and a half of the way through a flight to Honolulu, their first stop, at 1:20 p.m. Thursday. They visit Honolulu only tonight before progressing to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagano and Manila on Friday, then catching a red-eye back to North America for business in Vancouver on Saturday.

"Very excited to go on this journey," Vanderbilt remarked. "We'll get to work on some important contracts with overseas chefs and scout out new ones that we can begin negotiations with when the offseason flares back up in December."

One of the biggest items on the menu will be an intense round of negotiations with France-based chef Claudien Ainenl, whom scouters have been attempting to sign to the event for well over a year, when Vandy, Dall, and Ayeiy park it in Paris Oct. 31.





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