CHART Announces DiscoverLink as Silver Sponsor

Jan 26, 2006

Westfield, NJ - The Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (CHART) today announced that DiscoverLink has become a Silver Sponsor of the organization.

As a top e-learning company specializing only in hospitality and food service, DiscoverLink brings efficient and cost-effective ways to address issues such as employee retention, customer satisfaction and consistency of performance across multiple units to CHART members, said Mike Hampton, Ed.D, dean of the college of hospitality management at Lynn University and CHART president. We are excited to have the support of a company that has created over 200 courses and pioneered e-learning solutions at over a dozen national restaurant chains.

As CHART members, we understand that restaurants are constantly striving to improve the performance of their personnel, their units, and their organizations. said Jeff Tenut, founder of DiscoverLink. Our strategically implemented e-learning solutions can help CHART members realize a more immediate and positive return on their training investment.

CHART currently has seven sponsors who support its mission. They are:

Gold Level: National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation.

Silver Level: AchieveGlobal, American Hotel and Lodging Association Educational Foundation, Batrus Hollweg International, DiscoverLink, Learning Evolution and People Report.

For more information, please call 312-405-2634, email lmarovec@ameritech.net or visit www.chart.org.

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CHART (www.chart.org) is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit organizations dedicated to training in the hospitality industry. Members number over 600 and represent multi-unit restaurant and hotel companies. A typical CHART member holds over 10 years of training and human resources experience and impacts over 5,000 employees in 80 units. By helping trainers do their jobs better, CHART positively impacts millions of employees, customers and companies and the industry as a whole. CHART�s mission is to develop hospitality training professionals to advance industry training practices and improve operational results by providing access to education, tools and resources.

DiscoverLink (www.discoverlink.com) is the only e-learning company specializing in skill training, acculturation and compliance training for the hospitality and foodservice industry. DiscoverLink has proven for many of the top restaurant chains in America that e-learning is the most efficient and cost-effective way to address issues such as employee retention, customer satisfaction, new product testing and introduction, and consistency of performance across multiple units. In addition to creating courseware for restaurants, DiscoverLink offers strategic services to assist clients in determining the initiatives and technology that will produce the most immediate and visible return on the training investment.