Cory Perez, retail manager with Morrison at 600-bed Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune City, N.J., didn't mean to follow his mother, Betty Perez, senior director of food and nutrition services at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, into healthcare foodservice. FSD talked with Cory Perez to find out how much of an influence his mother, an IFMA 2009 Silver Plate winner, had on him entering into non-commercial foodservice. "My degree is in business administration with a concentration in management. I went to Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah. Getting into healthcare food-service happened by accident. I started at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, N.Y., when I was in school because it worked out well with my schedule. I worked there for three and a half years before moving to Jersey Shore last month. There was always something that I found attractive about healthcare in general, especially foodservice because it's a way to help the healing process without being a doctor or nurse.
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