The commune of Godoy Cruz launched a proposal that includes training, promotions and advertising for food stores. With an eye on enhancing the development of restaurants, sandwich shops, snack bars, cafes and bars in Godoy Cruz and install the department as a gastronomic center, the district advertised a program that includes training, promotions, competitions and various proposals. For the presentation, which took place in a shopping center, the chef came Borja Blázquez, Academic Director of the Culinary Institute Argentino, who gave a master class practice. With the “gastronomic Godoy Cruz” program aims to strengthen the municipality tendency to local concentration of this item in the department, especially in the San Martin Avenue axis – South San Martín and called Bombal South. Gustavo Valls, director of General Inspection and Supervision of the commune, said that there are 410 authorized or pending authorization of items and snack bars, restaurants, sandwich shops, cafes and delis ventures. Moreover, in 2007 and so far in 2008 25 new stores, which are the 8 restaurants and 17 bars and cafeterias were opened, allowing talk about a steady increase. Meanwhile, the Director of Tourism of the municipality area, Gabriela Testa explained that the proposal is also based on the success of wine tourism, which is associated with food and surveys conducted by the Statistics and Economic Research, have revealed that the fifth attractive valued by visitors to the province is the local cuisine. So they decided to develop this proposal is based on various actions: the organization of thematic events around food, conducting a contest to choose the dish of the department, advertising Godoy Cruz as a gastronomic center, gathering recipe for a book of regional foods, and the launch of 4×3 type promotions or discounts which are expected to begin to be offered when the supply problems are resolved. Meanwhile, a free course on costs for food was delivered and periodically other food handling is. Also, the municipality is organizing a training for late August on marketing to eateries and later one of English lads. Courses will be conducted in conjunction with the Culinary Institute Argentino and Business Association of Hotels and Restaurants and Allied Mendoza.
