Do You Know Someone Who Shines at Your Restaurant?
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We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 Rising Stars. Selected nominees will be featured on RestaurantInformer.com and will be honored at the Rising Star celebration lunch.
Nominees should be under the age of 40. They can work BOH or FOH – they can be chefs, restaurant owners, GMs, beverage directors, sommeliers, waitstaff … anyone who is making their mark on the state’s restaurant industry and has a passion and drive that you think will take them far in the future.
The ideal candidate is someone who is not just good at their job, but goes above and beyond their job description to make your company successful. Someone who is coming up with new and innovative ways of doing things or helping foster a broader sense of community outside your restaurant’s four walls. Someone who has the potential to be a leader of change in the culinary world.
Final selections for the 2025 Rising Stars will be determined by the Restaurant Informer editorial staff in partnership with the Georgia Restaurant Association. Nominations are closed for 2025. Winners will be announced in May. Thank you to everyone who submitted nominations. If you missed submitting a nomination this year, plan on submitting one for 2026.
Check out previous year’s Rising Stars: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017.
For questions or information on nominating a Rising Star, please reach out to John Sawyer at JSawyer@sawyerdirect.com
Thank you to our 2025 Risings Stars sponsors
Presenting Sponsor
Table Sponsors
Savannah Distributing and Society Insurance
