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w w w . i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m O c t o b e r 2 0 15 • I NSIGH T | 17 FOX CITIES RESTAURANT WEEK is an initiative of young professionals. Some of us happen to own our own businesses in the creative economy and some just have incredible passion about this area and have no problem rolling up our sleeves and making it happen. e goal is to highlight the culinary part of our creative class here in the Fox Cities and to get people out to try something new. e summer is one of the most difficult times for restaurants because of vacations and people grilling outdoors. We chose this week in particular because it's back to school — people are eating in a little more and dealing with new schedules for their kids. It incentivizes people to go out. You're also getting a really amazing value for your meal. All 29 participating restaurants were locally-owned in this community. Restaurants provided a three-course, fixed-priced menu which was $12 for lunch with a value of $20; a price of either $25 or $35 for dinner, which was a value of $35 or $50 respectively. ey were able to do what they chose, they were all required to feature starters, entrees and desserts and they had to have a minimum of two Samantha Dennis on creating community buzz U P F R O N T FACE TIME P H O T O G R A P H B Y B I L L K A P I N S K I / I M A G E S T U D I O S , F O R I N S I G H T Samantha Dennis of the events planning company Styled Accordingly led the coordination of the Fox Cities Restaurant Week Aug. 27- Sept. 3. Nearly 30 restaurants took part in the first-ever event, and organizers are already planning for more in 2016. She sat down with Insight Editor Margaret LeBrun to talk about how such an event can be one way to attract creative talent to the region. [continued ] »