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ClubCorp’s Executive Chef Featured at University of North Texas Event

By Joe Barks | April 15, 2014

Jeff Zimmerman was asked to feature a menu of his choice to create alongside students for the annual Guest Chef Day at The Club at Gateway Center, a student-run restaurant.

On April 9th, when the University of North Texas (UNT) hosted its annual Guest Chef Day at the student-run restaurant, The Club at Gateway Center, Jeff Zimmerman, Executive Chef and Corporate Director of Dallas-based ClubCorp, was asked to feature a menu of his choice to create alongside students.

Guest Chef Day is a 27-year tradition at UNT, and the General Manager of The Club at Gateway Center, Joseph O’Donnell, said he uses the event to feature top chefs from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex region who volunteer their time.

“It’s an opportunity to give the students exposure to somebody that’s actively employed in the craft,” O’Donnell said.

The Guest Chef event is open to the public and $9.50 is charged for a three-course meal.

For his participation, Zimmerman featured various menu items from ClubCorp properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He started with a first course of blue crab and poblano cornbread crumble, followed by a spiced skirt steak, and for dessert, Bananas Foster-style nut bread with a rum cream sauce.

Zimmerman said he was excited to work with the students and would welcome the opportunity to do it again.

The employees at The Club at Gateway Center are students enrolled in restaurant courses within UNT’s hospitality program. In the absence of a culinary school, working at The Club at Gateway Center to practice fine-dining service techniques, menu planning, management skills, marketing and financial management.

About The Author

Joe Barks

Joe Barks is the Editor of Club + Resort Business magazine, working out of Wayne, Pa. (suburban Philadelphia). He has been covering the club and resort industry since the launch of C&RB in April 2005 and during that time has written cover-story profiles of over 150 club and resort properties, as well as many additional articles about specific aspects of club management and profiles of leading club managers. Barks has been a writer and editor for specialized business publications for over 40 years, covering a wide variety of industries and professional disciplines over the course of his career. He is a four-time winner of Jesse H. Neal Awards from the American Business Press, known as the “Pulitzer Prizes” for industry trade publications. He has also been a freelance contributor to many leading national consumer and business publications, and served as Marketing Manager for the Hay Group, a leading worldwide management consulting firm. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

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