Harris Teeter Presenting Chef’s Best: Organic

Southeast regional retailer Harris Teeter will once more present Chef’s Best at the Charlotte Convention Center Crown Ballroom, in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday, July 31. As in the past, the event will feature notable local chefs helping to raise funds for hunger relief. The theme this year is "Organic," with a focus not only on organically grown and manufactured products, but also on the relationship that developed between Harris Teeter and its event co-sponsor, Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina, a Feeding America-affiliated organization.

Along with a chef-prepared meal, event attendees will experience a private reception hosted by the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Charlotte and a live auction. Charlotte news anchor Maureen O’Boyle will serve as Chef's Best host.

Additional sponsors for the annual event, now in its 26th year, are as follows:

Banquet Sponsors ($5,000)

Arytza; Burt's Bees; Chobani; Coca-Cola Bottling, Co.; Galbani/Sorrento; John and Peggy Schug; McCormick; Mike’s Hard Lemonade; MillerCoors; Steve and Susie Marlier; Wenner Bakery

Main Course Sponsors ($2,500)

3Fish Inc.; Advantage Sales and Marketing; Anheuser-Busch; Bakkavor USA; Butterball; Campbell Soup Co.; Charlotte Living; Darwin Freight; Duke Energy; Ettain Group; Family Dollar; Jackson Family Wines; P&G; Pabst Brewing Co.; Pernod Ricard USA; Pinnacle Food Sales; Rex Taylor Inc.; Sargento; Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.; Springs Close Foundation; Southern Tier Brewing; Technocom; Treasury Wine Estates; True North Salmon; Truliant Federal Credit Union; Tryon Distributing Co.; US Foods; Utz Quality Foods; Yuengling/Constellation Brands

Maître D’ Sponsors ($1,500)

Acosta; Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C.; Carolina Bison; ConAgra Foods; Craft Brew Alliance; Ernst and Young; Frito Lay; Hormel Foods; Land O’ Frost; Meyer Natural Foods; Niman Ranch; Odell; Rogers Premier; Smart Chicken; Smithfield; Snyder’s-Lance Inc.; White Wave Foods

In-kind Donors

Anheuser-Busch; Aryzta; Cargill; Coca-Cola; E&J Gallo Winery; McCormick Co.; MillerCoors

Matthews, N.C.-based Harris Teeter, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Kroger Co., operates more than 230 stores and one fuel center in eight states and the District of Columbia, and has about 28,000 associates. The company also owns grocery, frozen food, and perishable distribution centers in Greensboro and Indian Trail, N.C., as well as a dairy in High Point, N.C.