PRESS RELEASE Of interest to editors and journalists covering: Food/Cooking, Foodservice, Restaurants/Hotels, Employment, GA News Foodservice.com Partners with Hcareers to Create Largest Employment Center in the Foodservice Industry Atlanta, GA - April 20, 2004 /Send2Press Newswire/ -- Foodservice.com has partnered with Hcareers, the leading job board in the restaurant and hospitality industry, to power its Employment Center. The agreement bolsters a service that has been serving employers and applicants since 1997, and solidifies the Employment Center's position as the largest, most active job board in the foodservice industry. "Foodservice.com and Hcareers are the two biggest foodservice sites on the web, with an audience of nearly 1 million unique visitors per month," says David Curry, President & CEO of Hcareers. "The result of this alliance is one of the most comprehensive recruitment solutions for the foodservice industry today." "We are excited by the new alliance with Hcareers, a company that has created the largest job board for hospitality professionals," says David Smania, Founder & Sr. Director of Foodservice.com. "The partnership between Hcareers and Foodservice.com builds upon a mutual dedication to meeting the specific needs of a single industry. Industry job-seekers deserve a site they can call their own, and recruiters appreciate the ability to spend more time recruiting and less time screening non-qualified applicants." The Employment Center is one of the more popular services to assist operators of restaurants and foodservice establishments. Under the new agreement, employers can post jobs and search resumes, while job-seekers can add their resumes for free. Job listings purchased through the Employment Center will automatically post to Foodservice.com, Hcareers, and other co-branded sites, such as the National Restaurant Association's Job Bank. About Foodservice.com Founded in 1996 as the first online community created for the foodservice industry, Foodservice.com is a one-stop destination where operators source new products, search employment opportunities, interact with peers, monitor market prices, and stay informed through daily news and weekly editorials. For more information, please visit http://www.foodservice.com. About Hcareers Launched in 1998, Hcareers.com is the highest traffic job site for the restaurant and hospitality industry. Job seekers who visit the site can search a free database of 11,000 job openings posted in the past 45 days. Hcareers attracts 750,000 unique visitors each month and has had 40,000 resumes posted by job seekers in the past 90 days alone. MEDIA CONTACT: David Smania Sr. Director of eBusiness, Foodservice.com +1-678-256-8014 pr@foodservice.com /Note to editors: logos and images available./ # # # [ source of news = Foodservice.com ] ref: http://www.send2press.com/2archive/2004/pr_04_0420-foodservice.txt http://www.send2press.com/2archivePDF/pr_04_0420-foodservice.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------- *IMPORTANT NOTE TO MEDIA: to reach the organization releasing this news, please contact: pr@foodservice.com (media only) If used for publication, please send specimen copy. ----------------------------------------------------------------- S2PRN-R/4c/ GA / Atlanta, Georgia / Copr. (c) 2004 Send2Press. This release was issued on behalf of the above organization, who is solely responsible for accuracy of content, by Send2Press(TM), a unit of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Press.com