Business Timeline
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2014
2018
2020
2016
The review site "Naples Bites" is born. Makes an early splash by writing good & negative reviews. Infamous for reviewing bathrooms cleanliness.
Restaurant Week event expands across SWFL and includes Marco, Bonita, Fort Myers, and Cape Coral.
- Winter & Spring events
- 50+ restaurants
- $10k raised to Humane Society
Covid-19 flips hospitality upside down. FIG expands to what is now Main Course Hospitality. Launches Hope For Hospitality initiative and serves 15k hot meals to 1st responders and raises $75,000 for local restaurants.
Now introduced as Sizzle, restaurant week opens the door to the creation of the Food Idea Group. An (soon to be) award winning marketing agency exclusively for restaurants
and chefs.
Partners with FGCU to establish scholarship
endowment fund and pledges $50,000 to future hospitality management professionals.
Main Course forms their own non-profit leg, the Think Pineapple Foundation. Focused on culinary education & workforce development for Veterans.
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Main Course is awarded small business partner of the year.
2022
MCH adds to its arsenal of business services and in-house brands.
Contributes $50k to FGCU Entrepreneurship program.
Think Pineapple participates in Hurricane Ian Relief:
Serves 10,000 hot meals in 10 days to families in need.
The inaugural
"Naples Restaurant Week" is founded.
- 25 restaurants
- 11 days
- $35 /3 Course Menus
- $2750 raised for American Cancer Society.
The event sector of the business launches with the creation of First Bite and project management of other highly acclaimed events in SWFL.
2015
2017
2019
2021
Leadership
"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." – Vince Lombardi
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Amanda Curbelo
Non-Profit
Development & strategic planning, donor cultivation, major gifts, annual fund management, sponsor sourcing.
Krista Casazza
Non-Profit / Grant Research
Grant writer research, grant funding, analytics, curriculum development, RFP acquisitions and services.