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Contributing Blogger, Friday With Joan Author and Industry Expert
Joan Eisenstodt, an Ohio native founded Eisenstodt Associates, LLC, a DC-based meeting consulting and training company in 1981. Joan has immersed herself in the hospitality industry and is considered one of its most knowledgeable, inclusive, and ethical practitioners. Joan serves as a hospitality industry expert witness in disputes often involving event attrition and cancellation, most recently in 2021 and 2022 in COVID-related cases.
Once I realized that Oreos had not been on any break I’d seen in all my years in the industry, I knew I had to go to the source of food and beverage knowledge for our industry—Patti Shock—to find out what we had been eating and why.
