Goodwill Industries Of Middle Georgia Inc

The hospitality division, edgar's hospitality group, consists of edgar's bistro, edgar's grille, edgar's above broad, anderson conference center, the snelling center, and pinnacle club. These applied learning businesses are non-profit social enterprises that support and promote goodwill's mission to the community. Edgar's bistro, edgar's grille, and edgar's above broad, named for goodwill industries founder dr. Edgar j. Helms, are full-service restaurants that provide helms college culinary students with first-hand experience in food preparation and presentation in an upscale experiential learning environment. Anderson conference center and snelling center also play host to corporate meeting and social events with a few attendees to a few hundred. The centers offer specially designed meeting spaces equipped with premier wi-fi technology and audiovisual amenities, with food service provided from customized catering menus. Both conference venues provide excellent applied-learning banquet and catering experiences for students at helms college and an opportunity to better market goodwill's life-changing mission to the community.january 1 to december 31st highlightsserved 40,670 guests in edgar's bistro, edgar's grille and edgar's above broadserved 35,395 guests in the anderson and snelling conference centersserved 5,653 guests in the pinnacle club

Education:goodwill's education services, through helms college, provided 241 students college level training in the culinary and health services disciplines at the two helms college campus locations in 2024, as well as 53 students at the hvac training facility. In addition to their classes, the culinary students also received over 19,600 hours of on-the-job hospitality training. There were 103 culinary graduates, 15 health sciences graduates and 10 hvac graduates in 2024.