AGENDA
NESO 52nd Annual Convention 2025
Great Wolf Lodge
~T h u r s d a y, January 23~
NESO Registration - Conference Center Concierge Desk
730-845 – Breakfast - Fallen Timber AB
8am - 4:30pm ServSafe Course- Fallen Timber C
FREE TIME at Water Park!
2pm - Board of Directors Meeting - Caribou Pass
6pm- Meet your suppliers - Sequoia
Cocktails – Buffet Dinner
Bingo & Prizes
~F r i d a y, January 24~
8am-915 – Breakfast Fallen Timber
9am - Seminar on Clamshell Grill - Northwest Territory
Jon VanGilder, Taylor
10am - Cake Decorating Seminar - Sequoia
Jackie Baker
11am - 2pm - Exhibits Open - Sequoia
DQ Machine – Blindfolded Cone Contest
Random $50 Drawings
NESO Shirt Sales
Lunch served 12Noon in Exhibit Room
Corner Deli Bistro
2pm - Seminar - "People & Profitability" - Sequoia
Keith Chambers - Jessica Wolf - David McCollum
Comments by Joe B Stewart
3pm – Store Leadership Roundtable Discussions - Sequoia
For your Leadership employees to have Candid interactive
Discussions - NO Operators!
4pm - 50/50 Drawing & Auction - Sequoia
6:30pm - Banquet / Cocktails - Sequoia
- Dueling Pianos by Cleveland Keys
- Crowning of the DQ Queen
~S a t u r d a y, January 25~
8am – Breakfast & General Session
Random $50 drawing
- Tom Cleary, Pres, NESO - Welcome Operators & Suppliers
- Josh Schmieg, DQOA Director,
- Jason Dilly, DQOC Purchasing Director
- NESO Annual meeting / election of officers
Finish by Noon
FREE TIME on your own
Enjoy the Water Park!
CASINOS Nearby
*Hard Rock – 23 mi/26 minutes
1000 Broadway St. Cincinnati OH 45202
*Miami Gaming – 10 mi/20 minutes
6000 SR 63, Lebanon, OH 45036
7pm - Dinner - Sequoia
Instant Money
Drawing for $500