Marine Corps Community Services Announces 2025 Food and Hospitiality Excellence Awards
The Food and Hospitality Excellence Award Program was established by Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) in 1999 to recognize restaurant and hospitality activities that exceed the highest level of standards of operational excellence and service to Marines and their families. These awards provide the opportunity for any club, restaurant, snack bar or lodging facility, regardless of size or location, to measure their results against criteria in pre-established categories of customer service, financial performance, human resources development and operational excellence.
This year, Business and Support Services Division (MR) awarded 34 MCCS activities aboard 9 Marine Corps installations and support activities for their exceptional performance in 2024. The leadership and staff of these operations have excelled beyond the values, principles, and core competencies of MCCS. The recognized groups continue to accomplish the MCCS primary mission of taking care of Marines and their families by enacting best-in-class operating practices and infusing their activities with the voice of our guests. MCCS has also expanded the Food & Hospitality Excellence Award program to recognize two of our highest performing staff as the Hospitality Manager of the Year and Hospitality Associate of the Year.
As a result of their efforts, these team members and activities have received an abundance of positive and personalized guest feedback and helped drive patron loyalty and preference. It is this type of commitment that distinguishes Food and Hospitality Excellence Award winners.
2025 FOOD AND HOSPITALITY EXCELLENCE AWARD RECIPIENTS
MCB CAMP BUTLER
Life Juice Café Schwab
Life Juice Café Futenma
Life Juice Café Foster
Life Juice Café Hansen
Life Juice Café Kinser
Thirsty's Enlisted Club
Surfside Consolidated Club
Legends Officers' Club
The Palms Consolidated Club
Ocean Breeze Consolidated Club
Tengan Castle Restaurant
Habu Pit Restaurant
Butler Officers' Club
Beach Head Consolidated Club
Sumo Burrito Camp Foster
Hashmarks SNCO Club
Bayview Enlisted Club
MCB HAWAII
Aloha Kitchen
9th Puka Snack Bar
Starbucks
SNCO Club at Kaneohe Bay
MCAGCC TWENTYNINE PALMS
Warrior Club
Mobile Canteens
MCCS LEJEUNE-NEW RIVER
Spare Time Sports Grill
Onslow Beach Resort
French Creek Snack Bar
La Casita Loca
Starbucks
MCX CAMP PENDLETON
Del Mar Beach Resort
Lake O'Neill Recreational Lodging
MCB QUANTICO
Bulldogs Burgers
Quiglet's Restaurant
MCCS SOUTH CAROLINA
Java Café - PI Visitors' Center
Beaufort Bowling Center Snack Bar
CLUB OF THE YEAR
Thirsty's Enlisted Club - MCAS Futenma, Okinawa JP.
RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
French Creek Snack Bar - MCB Camp Lejeune, NC
LODGE OF THE YEAR
Del Mar Beach Resort - MCB Camp Pendleton, CA
HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATE OF THE YEAR
Ms. Octavia Carter, Cook Supervisor
The Club at Paradise Point - MCB Camp Lejeune, NC
HOSPITALITY MANAGER OF THE YEAR
Mr. Gerald Stokinger, F&B Manager
MCB Camp S.D. Butler & MCCS Okinawa, JP.
For more information about the Marine Corps Community Services Food and Hospitality Excellence Award Program contact Ric Pomeroy, Branch Head – Food, Hospitality and Commercial Recreation, at 703-784-3811 or pomeroyk@usmc-mccs.org.
