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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Sierra Inn Dining Facility at Travis Air Force Base, California, is Air Mobility Command’s Region 2 nominee to compete for the John L. Hennessy Trophy award.
The Hennessy Trophy is presented to the best food service program in the Air Force and each major command nominates a base to compete. Travis will compete for the honor for a seventh time and will represent Region 2 for the second straight year. Region 2 covers a large geographic area beginning west of the Mississippi River and stretching to Asia.
“Being nominated to compete for the Hennessy Trophy is a great honor and shows that we are part of an elite group of superior performers,” said Tech. Sgt. Ginger Bell, 60th Force Support Squadron dining facility manager from Radcliff, Kentucky.
“Our no. 1 priority is our customers and we take great pride in our work. This nomination validates what we already know…that we perform with excellence every day,” said Bell.
Senior Master Sgt. Robert Lombardi, 60th FSS sustainment services flight superintendent, said his Airmen enable Travis to be successful.
“We provide food service to 26,000 Travis military and family members so they can focus on the mission,” Lombardi said. “I’m extremely proud of our 85-member food service team for all of their hard work to ensure mission success at Travis.”
Excellence is the hallmark of the Hennessy Trophy. According to the Hennessy Award website, the program’s focus is promoting excellence in customer service and food service support within the Air Force. Achieving success in the competition is a reflection of pride, commitment and motivation to be the best.
Airman 1st Class John Greedy, 60th FSS food service member from Santa Clarita, California, said he hopes the Travis community realizes the significance of what the Hennessy Trophy represents and encourages people to experience eating at the Sierra Inn.
“This is a prestigious award because if we win it, we’ll know that we are the best,” Greedy said. “Just simply being selected to compete is a demonstration of our performance level.”
“We feed the base and provide a safe environment and high quality food,” he added. “Come into our dining facility and experience excellent service.”
In 2016, the Sierra Inn Dining Facility provided nearly 400,000 meals to three facilities on base supporting three wings including the largest air mobility wing in AMC. The facility also oversees an inventory valued at $480,000.
The John L. Hennessy Award was established in 1957 and is the oldest military food service award. The award is named after John L. Hennessy, a hotel and restaurant executive who led a special Hoover Commission Task Group advisory of military food service and commissaries board to improve military food service.
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