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Monday, March 15, 2010
Jay’s hires exec chef with plenty of Dayton experience
DAYTON — Chris Cavender — chef, former restaurant owner and current owner of Cuvee wine shop in Bellbrook — has been hired as executive chef at Jay’s Restaurant.
Amy Haverstick, co-owner and general manager of the restaurant at 225 E. Sixth St. in Dayton’s Oregon District, confirmed the hiring late this afternoon, March 15, and said Cavender’s first official day in his new position will be Monday, April 5 — the day after Easter.
“I feel it’s going to be a partnership moreso than just hiring an employee,” Haverstick said. “I feel I’m going to learn a lot from him.”
Cavender, 49, served as executive chef at TomKatz restaurant in Springboro and was co-owner of TW’s Restaurant in Miamisburg. His other Dayton-area restaurant stints include The Florentine in Germantown, the Blue Dog Cafe, Legends, and NCR Country Club, as well as early experiences at Peasant Stock and l’Auberge.
“I think I’ll be a good fit at Jay’s, in part because of my experience in seafood,” said Cavender, who has a culinary degree from Johnson & Wales in Providence, R.I. Cavender was the guest chef for a German wine dinner earlier this month at Jay’s.
Cavender replaces Justin White, who left Jay’s in late 2009 to take a position at the Dayton Country Club. Cavender said his hiring will have no immediate impact on Cuvee, which will remain open, but he said the wine bar’s future is uncertain.
Both Haverstick and Cavender said they foresee resuming popular cooking classes and hosting more wine and beer dinners and luncheons.
Haverstick — whose oversight of the restaurant grew after her father Jay died while hiking and taking photographs in Death Valley last year — said she also foresees a “revamping” of Jay’s menu.
“There will be some menu changes, definitely, while keeping the staples that are most popular with our guests,” she said.
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TweetVote for “Best Fine Dining” in Dayton
This week’s ActiveDayton Best of Dayton online voting is for “fine dining,” with a veritable plethora of restaurants listed — so many, it’s difficult to vote for one.
Still, you should.
Voting just started today, and will extend through noon next Monday, March 22. You can vote here and return to the same link to check results (the “view results” link is just below the list of nominated restaurants).
Just as in politics, no whining is allowed from anyone who didn’t vote!
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TweetLocal Paneras to post calorie counts by fall
Panera Bread restaurants are gearing up to become the first nationwide chain to voluntarily post calorie information for all of its menu items in its restaurants.
Dayton-area customers will have a wait a bit longer than Panera diners in many other cities to peruse posted calorie counts, however.
This Associated Press story reports that calorie counts will be posted by March 24 at all 585 company-owned stores, but the Dayton-area Panera restaurants are franchise-owned. Judy Ketner-Dollison, Columbus-based marketing director for Panera Bread/Breads of the World franchisee for the Miami Valley’s Paneras, said all Dayton-area Panera Bread locations will be posting calorie information “by early fall, approximately September.”
Some restaurant industry officials have opposed requirements to post calorie counts, but some cities have approved laws mandating such postings, and proposals to do so are pending in city and state legislative bodies.
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