Fedele Bauccio

Fedele Bauccio co-founded Bon Appétit Management Company, which provides food service to 1,000-plus cafés located at corporations, universities, and museums in 33 states, in 1987. Together Fedele and Bon Appétit have revolutionized the food service industry, both by introducing fresh, made-from-scratch food to the contract market and by pioneering environmentally and socially responsible practices designed to create a more sustainable food system. From the beginning, Bon Appétit has been committed to the health of its customers, striving for the freshest ingredients and banning unhealthy ingredients such as MSG and trans fats. The launch of the Farm to Fork program in 1999 marked the first of the many commitments to widening that focus to the communities in which they operate, and to the planet itself. Bon Appétit is the first food service company to commit to serving only seafood that meets Seafood Watch sustainability guidelines (since 2002), to reducing antibiotic use in farm animals (2003); to switching to rBGH-free milk (2003), cage-free shell eggs (2005), humanely raised ground beef (2012), and gestation-crate- free pork (2016); tackling food’s role in climate change (2007), and to addressing farmworker rights (2009). Fedele’s work has been honored by many nonprofit and industry groups. Notably, he has received the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2014 National Retail and Consumer Products Award, for redefining the food service industry and pioneering environmental and local sourcing policies, and one of the James Beard Foundation’s inaugural Leadership Awards, along with First Lady Michelle Obama and eight others. From 2006-2008, he served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. He is currently a board member of Compass Group North America. Fedele graduated from the University of Portland with a master’s degree in business administration in 1966 and a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1964. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Portland, the University of Redlands, and Notre Dame de Namur University.