Pure Les Gourmets

We are very proud to present to you our first promotional video for Les Gourmets 2012: Pure Michigan. As you watch our video imagine the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the state so many of us are proud to call home. 


Enjoy!
-Your Les Gourmets 2012 Executive Board 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHQkuD5k08

Marketing! Marketing! Marketing!

The Les Gourmets marketing team has been working hard this year to promote this wonderful event! We are very excited to announce that we have completed the design for our invitations and will be sending them to over 200 people in the next few weeks. We have sold over 100 tickets already and we are selling out fast. In the next few weeks we are looking forward to working with Spartan Sagas as well as other media outlets around the Lansing area to get the word out about Les Gourmets!  To keep up with what we're doing on a daily basis with marketing as well as the entire board, continue reading our blog, follow us on twitter @msulesgourmets and "like" us on facebook, MSU Les Gourmets 2012. 

www.twitter.com/msulesgourmets

-Courtney Johnson, Director of Marketing

A Message from Assistant Director

Its Les Gourmets time again!  It is so nice to be back with the team after spending the semester away.   I have sincerely missed the team; I forgot how entertaining the meetings could get.  It's so great to see a group of different minds, who each bring an unique idea, come together and create a spectacular evening.  Most of our guest chefs this year are returning from previous years and are ready for another fun year.  Next up on my list of things for the team is helping all around and doing some intense thinking on our famous ice sculptures for reception.   This year’s theme is close to heart, I have lived in Michigan for 12 years now and have fallen in love with the state.  This will be my third and final Les Gourmets and I can’t wait!!!!!

-Samantha Patterson, Assistant Director 

Donations. Donations. Donations!

In order to ensure a successful Les Gourmets our Donations Team works very hard to create relationships with donors. Here is a little blurb about what our team is working on!

The Donations Team is currently in the round one phase of solicitation working on targeting all of the top donors from previous years. We have contacted almost all of our potential donors who donate for the main event. The team is working really hard to make lasting relationships with these donors because with out them Les Gourmets would not happen! We have already received confirmation with some donors and know when they are delivering their products. Like stated before without the help of these amazing companies we would not be where we are today. Contacting these companies during the holidays is always challenging due to the economy, however, we are so generous that they still will give to Les Gourmets! With that being said the supervisors and directors like to give back to the community as well. We previously made dinner and taught high school students about what foods can help them maintain a healthy lifestyle. This event went very well and hopefully we can have many more to come. When the team gets back from break we are going to work hard and start round two which is contacting all of the donors who donate food for the volunteers! 

-Meagan Lutton, Director of Donations