Big City Chefs Announces Groundbreaking Alliance with Nationwide Rewards Program - February 5, 2003

SAN DIEGO, California - Big City Chefs, America’s largest personal chef service provider, has announced it will be the exclusive provider of personal chef services to corporate rewards customers of Maritz Rewards, a Maritz, Inc. company (www.maritz.com).

Participants will be able to select Big City Chefs’ personal chef services, which include personalized meal services, dinner parties, and private cooking classes, from among 1600 products and services from such high-end merchants as Waterford, Coach, Sony, Tumi, Morton’s of Chicago, and Bath and Body Works. According to Big City Chefs CEO Tom Stieber, this is the first time a personal chef service provider has been featured in a nationwide catalog. “We believe this reflects our busy society’s growing adoption of personal chef services as part of our everyday lives. As the country’s first and only multi-market provider of personal chef services, Big City Chefs is a natural fit for this compelling venture,” Stieber notes.

A multinational organization with operating companies and associates in 42 countries, Maritz, Inc. ranks among the nation’s top 10 consulting and business services firms for its innovative use of information technology, according to InformationWeek magazine. Big City Chefs provides personal chef services in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, Chicago, and Atlanta, and will shortly launch its services in the Washington, DC area and Dallas Metroplex regions.