People's Choice Ballot | 2014 Producer's Choice Chef Awards

Each table will be submitting JUST ONE BALLOT.
Determine as a table how you will make decisions.
Some questions will lead directly to awards, while others are for facilitating discussion in order to help you determine your overall winner. Please do your best to reach consensus. Be honest and HAVE FUN.


A red asterisk (*) indicates required questions.

People's Choice Ballot



NAMES | Please enter the names of each member of your table contributing to the voting and discussion.


LOCAL | Most Comprehensive Use of Local Ingredients
Whose dish had the most local ingredients? Whose dish relied the LEAST on non-local ingredients?
Choose 2
Clayton Chapman
Paul Kulik
Joel Mahr
Matt Rousch
Nick Strawhecker


LOCAL | Please provide evidence to support your previous decision.


BEAUTIFUL | Most Beautiful Presentation of Food
Whose platters were the most clean, organized, easy to serve, and visually appealing?
Choose 2
Clayton Chapman
Paul Kulik
Joel Mahr
Matt Rousch
Nick Strawhecker


DELICIOUS | Most Delicious
Whose food made your eyes roll back in your head?
Who delivered the single tastiest bite of the evening?

Choose 2
Clayton Chapman
Paul Kulik
Joel Mahr
Matt Rousch
Nick Strawhecker


DELICIOUS | Please share some of the comments and arguments that were
presented by your tablemates during the discussion leading up to your previous selection.


OVERALL | Comprehensive Evaluation
Considering your answers to the previous questions,
please assign a score for each of the chef's food on a scale from 1-10
with 10 being the highest.
Base your rating on each of the following criteria:
1. Use of Local Ingredients
2. Presentation
3. Deliciousness
[Not necessarily in that order.]

        1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10      
  Clayton Chapman - The Grey Plume Terrible Amazing  
  Paul Kulik - The Boiler Room & Le Boullion Terrible Amazing  
  Joel Mahr - Lot 2 Terrible Amazing  
  Matt Rousch - Bread + Cup Terrible Amazing  
  Nick Strawhecker - Dante  Terrible Amazing  


OVERALL | Comprehensive Evaluation
Rank your choices for 2014 Producer's Choice "Chef of the Year Award" in order.*
    1 2 3 4 5
Clayton Chapman - The Grey Plume  
Paul Kulik - The Boiler Room & Le Boullion  
Joel Mahr - Lot 2  
Matt Rousch - Bread + Cup  
Nick Strawhecker - Dante  





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Metropolitan Community College
Institute for the Culinary Arts
Omaha, NE