Get ready to accelerate and celebrate! For 50 years and counting, the Nation's Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators Conference (MUFSO) has fueled the foodservice industry with the education and peer-to-peer connections that have contributed to the long-term success of countless chain restaurant companies.

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Golden Chain Winner Announcement Nation’s Restaurant News will honor six multiunit restaurant executives with Golden Chain awards during the 50th Annual MUFSO. The 2009 Golden Chain award recipients are Chuck Fallon, president of Burger King Corp.; Phil Friedman, chairman and chief executive of McAlister’s Corp.; James Greco, chief executive of Bruegger’s Bagels; Jeffrey Harvey, president and chief executive of Burgerville; Randy Kibler, president and chief executive of Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ‘n Biscuits; and Cameron Mitchell, president and chief executive of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants. Click here to read more!

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MUFSO Keynote Speakers

William Taylor, Co-Founder/Founding Editor of Fast Company will be delivering a keynote presentation at MUFSO on October 5 from 8:15 am - 9:15 am.

Bill is an agenda-setting writer, speaker, and entrepreneur who has shaped the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate, and succeed. The arrival of his new book, Mavericks at Work, promises to once again change how companies and their leaders navigate a fast-moving world and devise strategies that win in the marketplace.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country's most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers, will deliver a keynote address on October 5 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm.

Author of the best-selling book "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable," Taleb holds a unique view of events, saying that: "The world is random, intrinsically unknowable. You will never be able to control randomness."

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Frances X. Frei, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Founder, Concire Leadership Institute, will address the MUFSO audience during a keynote on October 6 from 11:15 am - 12:00 pm.

As Harvard Business School’s resident expert on service management, Professor Frances Frei has focused her scholarship and teaching on helping leaders to compete on excellence.

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Who attends MUFSO? 

MUFSO attracts the top 400 chain restaurant companies and emerging growth restaurant companies from the QSR, Casual, Family, On-Site, High Volume Independent segments. Foodservice executive positions represented at MUFSO each year are CEO, President, as well as Vice President and Director level executives from the operations, marketing, finance, franchising, human resources/training, culinary and purchasing disciplines.

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Yes, opportunities in the future are closer than they appear! In fact, many of them can be
found in Dallas, October 4-6 at the 50^th Annual MUFSO Conference!

You also don’t want to miss MUFSO Golden Anniversary Celebration where we will pay tribute to industry luminaries who have shaped the dining scene for the past 50 years as well as enjoy menu trends, pop culture, music and movies from the past five decades.