The IF&BF Hall of Fame Summit is an annual event of The International Food & Beverage Forum and The International Food & Beverage Forum Hall of Fame Society in association with RAK Porcelain Europe SA, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Las Vegas, Kurt H. Fischer & Associates LLC, the Signature at MGM Grand, and other sponsors.

The IF&BF Hall of Fame Summit is a food and wine extravaganza including culinary demonstrations & wine-pairing classes, gourmet dinners, and a Grand Gourmet Wine Safari, with over 20 wineries presenting in excess of 80 wines and internationally renowned Master Chefs presenting their favorite specialties.
The IF&BF Hall of Fame Summit offers wine and food enthusiasts an opportunity to hear from top Food & Beverage executives from five continents, to meet internationally renowned Master Chefs and celebrity Winemakers, and to rub shoulders with fellow devotees from around the world.

All events are open to the general public.

The main goal of this event is to raise scholarship funds for hospitality students.

To achieve this goal every member and benefactor of the International Food & Beverage Forum and the International Food & Beverage Forum Hall of Fame Society donates auction items, such as stays in luxury hotels around the world and dinners in the greatest restaurants of our industry.

Other donations are made by friends of the International Food & Beverage Forum members.

All auction items, featuring those hotel stays, dinners in top restaurants, and fine wines, are promoted on a special “BiddingForGood” website and offered for on-line buying and for a pre-IF&BF Hall of Fame Live Auction bidding. During the various events of The IF&BF Hall of Fame Summit live auctions are organized to finalize the sales of all auction items.

The proceeds of those auctions go entirely to the International Food & Beverage Forum Education Fund to support our goal to raise scholarship funds for hospitality students.

Since 1996, the International Food & Beverage Forum has honored 16 Restaurateurs of the year, inducted 26 persons into the Hall of Fame. For each honoree the International Food & Beverage Forum donated $ 10,000.00 for scholarships for hospitality students. A total of US $ 550,000 was distributed at several colleges and universities in the United States.