The 5ht of November, 2009
Source Credits - Pittsburgh Business Times, Giant Eagle market District, talent network, inc.
Topic Tags - Celebrity Chefs, Pittsburgh Events
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talent network, inc. entertainment and talent agency is bringing celebrity chef/talk show host Ted Allen to town this weekend for the grand opening of the Giant Eagle Market District in the new Settlers Ridge Shopping/Entertainment complex in Robinson Township, PA.
Ted Allen will do two cooking demos. 11:00am to 1:00pm with a signing around noon.
Giant Eagle opens super-sized Market District near Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Business Times - by Tim Schooley
A pyramid of pomegranates. Revolving doors wide enough to drive a forklift through, let alone push a grocery cart. And a hydroponic garden where lettuce and herbs are grown on the sales floor.
Not to mention 250 brands of beer sold by the six pack.
Such is the parade of attention-getting features at the showcase of a store that Giant Eagle debuted Thursday with the opening of its Market District at Settler’s Ridge. The store is the company’s first that was designed and built from the ground up for the upscale format.
Built on a reclaimed coal mine in Robinson Township, the 150,000 square foot store opened to a host of dignitaries and media and a rush of customers accessing the new shopping center from the new Settler’s Cabin exchange on the Parkway West.
It’s an infrastructure addition that Giant Eagle chairman David Shapira said made the new Market District, the largest food store in the region, possible.
“It makes it a regional location rather than one that just serves its own locality,” he said, praising Allegheny County executive Dan Onorato for helping to make the exit ramp possible.
Make no mistake, Giant Eagle is striving to attract shoppers from both near and far to the Market District store, which employs 650 people. The store’s architectural focal point is it great hall” in the middle of the floor plan, where shoppers can browse for hundreds of kinds of produce under an 85-foot ceiling. Beyond its offerings of 65,000 different products, the Market District also offers a cooking school, a 100-capacity banquet room and conference facility on its second level. Giant Eagle’s newest store also goes beyond the offerings at its established Market District stores in Bethel Park and in the city’s Shadyside neighborhood in the variety of prepared foods it offers.
The store has an Italian Gelato bar, a Tandoori oven, from which it serves various Indian dishes, a Rosti bar, from which it serves Swiss potato pancakes, and Crepe bar, along with its prepared foods standbys sold at its charcuterie and its sushi bar that have proven popular at its other Market District locations.
“We want customers to view this as a restaurant destination,” said Brett Merrell, the senior vice president for Market District.
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Who is Ted Allen?
Ted is the author of “The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart Simple Recipes” (Clarkson-Potter), a cookbook that features easy, all-natural recipes.
Ted also co-wrote the New York Times Best Seller “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab Five’s Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better, and Living Better.”
Related Links:
Settlers Ridge to offer Market District, bevy of restaurants.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_649215.html
Market District Web Site:
http://www.marketdistrict.com/home
Ace of Cakes Web Site
Food Network
To book entertainment or to hire a celebrtiy chef contact talent network, inc
(412) 264-4727, David Sedelmeier
mailATtalentnetworkinc.com
www.talentnetworkinc.com
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