ACF Culinary Arts Competition

Welcome to the ACF Central Florida Chapter's 2025 Culinary Arts Competitions to be held at the Orange County Convention Center during the Florida Restaurant Show from November 11-13, 2025. This year the show is three days.

Our Competition Arena will showcase two Live Action culinary competitions. This year's theme is "The Art of Autumn" for both live action comps:

• Cake Decorating Live Action Showpiece Competition - Tue, Nov 11th
• Fruit & Vegetable Carving Live Action Showpiece Competition - Wed, Nov 12th

We need help with this year’s competitions, and we have three opportunities for you:

1)      VOLUNTEER – Chapter members please RSVP on our event posts on the website at https://acfcfc.com/chapter-events (forward the calendar to November) to let us know you have time to assist with our chapter booth or the competitions. Must be logged in to auto-fill registration form. NOTE: Friends of our chapter, please email Lynda about volunteering: centralfloridachefs021@gmail.com

2)      FREE TICKETS – All ACF members and their guests can claim free passes to any day of the Florida Restaurant Show. Passes will be available at the show registration at the front of the event hall. Click here to reserve your passes and use code “ACF” for FREE registration: The Pizza Tomorrow Summit & Florida Restaurant Show

3)      COMPETE – Show us your cake decorating or your fruit/veggie carving skills. No fee to compete. You don’t have to be an ACF member to compete. This is an ACF Sanctioned event and spots are limited. Click here to enter to compete: https://forms.gle/i28zzca6HYGtJMcw8

And a very special thank you to our awesome judges for this year’s competitions:

•         Reimund Pitz, CEC, CCE, AAC, HOF – Lead Judge
•         Louis Perrotte, CEC, AAC, HOF
•         Steve Jayson, CEC, AAC