AVONDALE, Pa., (Jan. 5, 2006) -- Forewinds Hospitality has announced the appointment of Paul J. O’Toole, CEC / AAC, as Executive Culinary Officer for its golf destination properties and restaurants. In this capacity he is responsible for overseeing the culinary programs at all Forewinds destination properties including food and beverage quality control, menu development, culinary staff recruitment and training, as well as instilling Forewinds standards for all restaurant operations and banquet and catering services.

Forewinds Hospitality specializes in the acquisition, revitalization and management of premier private and public golf clubs, daily-fee golf courses, restaurants, hotels and resorts - employing innovative hospitality strategies to build premium hospitality destination brands.
“Chef Paul’s extensive culinary background as well as food and beverage operation management experience, will allow Forewinds to continue building our brand as the choice for dining and special events in the markets we serve,” stated Ron Winarick, Managing Director, Forewinds Hospitality. “Under Chef Paul’s leadership, I am confident that our restaurant and banquet operations will not only raise the bar of what a customer should expect, but set a guaranteed, consistent standard of excellence at all of our properties,” added Winarick.

A Certified Executive Chef (CEC) and a member in good standing of the American Academy of Chefs (AAC), and more than 30 years of experience in culinary hospitality, Chef O’Toole has spent the bulk of his career building his skills in the hotel and country club industry in the greater Delaware Valley region. He began his culinary career in 1979 serving as a chef’s apprentice at Riverfront Complex, Philadelphia. He completed a brief stint as specialty restaurant saucier for the Hyatt Regency in Miami, Fla., before returning to the Riverfront Complex, where he progressed to executive sous chef. In 1984 he entered the world of country club food and beverage operations as executive sous chef for Aronimink Golf Club, Newtown Square, Pa. In 1996 he then joined Waynesborough Country Club, Newtown Square, Pa., where he spent 10 years as Executive Chef. In 1995 Chef O’Toole joined 1492 Hospitality Group, Inc, Avondale, Pa.., where he served as Executive Chef, responsible for the food and beverage operations for five restaurants and two premier golf club facilities. Additionally he began a popular monthly cooking class series, which he continues today, at both Mountain Branch Golf Club, Joppa, Md., and Hartefeld National Golf Club, Avondale, Pa.
Prior to joining Forewinds in December 2005, he served as an independent consultant providing expertise in food and beverage operations for both start-up and existing facilities since 2000.

Chef O’Toole has hosted and co-hosted numerous culinary events for major PGA tournaments including the Senior PGA Bell Atlantic Classic in 1998 and 1999; the CVS Classic in 2004; and the Senior PGA Championship in 2003. Chef O’Toole currently serves as Board Chairman for the Delaware Valley Chef’s Association of Greater Philadelphia. He is National Education Chairman for the American Academy of Chefs, and has been recognized by the American Culinary Federation’s Delaware Valley chapter as Chef of the Year in 1992 and Culinarian of the Year in 1991. O’Toole has served as mentor to two of the last five United States Culinary Youth Team Member Apprentices and was named as a candidate for Northeast Regional Chef of the Year by the American Culinary Federation (ACF) in 2002.

The Forewinds portfolio includes Hartefeld National Golf Club, an exclusive private course in Avondale, Pa., Mountain Branch Golf Course, a public daily-fee course and restaurant destination in Joppa, Md., and Sterling National Country Club in Sterling, Mass.
Forewinds Hospitality is the hospitality division of one of America’s largest real estate acquisition and property management firms – Sawyer Realty Holdings LLC, a privately held acquisition and management firm based in Needham, Mass. and College Park, Md.

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