Gold Plate Awards

The FMI Foundation created the Gold Plate Award in 2013 to highlight the outstanding programs implemented by the retail food industry to encourage family meals. Examples include healthy family meals, quick and easy family meals and recipes, cooking with kids, themed dinners, breakfast with the family, MyPlate meals, and much more. The award recognizes outstanding programs that food retailers and suppliers have implemented, to encourage families to share more meals, together at home, more often.

Celebrate 2023's Gold Plate Awards Recipients!

After a great month of family meals, we were able to host the 2023 Gold Plate Awards ceremony in conjunction with the in-person Health & Well-being Council meeting at FMI Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. David Fikes, executive director of the FMI Foundation, and Kelli Windsor, senior director of digital communications, co-hosted the Gold Plate Awards ceremony on Tuesday, November 28th.

Thank you to all Gold Plate Award recipients (winners and honorable mentions) and all submissions for this year's awards program. We hope your company will consider a family meals month activation or program in the year to come.

Please tune into the recorded Awards Ceremony using the button below!

Tune into the 2023 Ceremony Here!

The nomination period for 2024's awards cycle will open on Friday, September 13th and close on Friday, October 4th at 11:59 pm EST. We look forward to receiving your awards submissions!

Past Winners and Honorable Mentions

Gold Plate Awards Criteria

The Gold Plate Awards recognize retailer and supplier programs that creatively participated in National Family Meals Month^TM in September.

The FMI Foundation will be gathering information about National Family Meals Month participation by food retailers and suppliers throughout the food industry during the month of September. The Gold Plate Award winners will be decided based on each company’s participation.

The following criteria will be used in the selection of Gold Plate Award winning programs:

Quality (breadth, depth, and extent of programming; consistency with NFMM; well thought out and executed; comprehensive measurement and reported reach)
Originality/Creativity
Ability to scale and replicate the program
Inclusion of National Family Meals Month
Corporate participation – level of company/store-wide involvement

Winning companies will be selected in six categories:

Category A: Small retailers (Companies with 1-49 stores)
Category B: Medium retailers (Companies with 50-199 stores)
Category C: Large retailers (Companies with 200+ stores)
Category D: Food Manufacturers/Suppliers
Category E: Community Collaborators (Formerly “Allies” and may include other family organizations and fellow industry/trade organizations)

NEW for 2024's Gold Plate Awards

Category F: National Family Meals Movement - celebrate multi-month family meals programming or programs promoting family meals outside of the month of September