• FSD of the Month: Linda Stoll of Jeffco Public Schools

    In her four years with the Jeffco Public Schools, Linda Stoll, executive director of foodservice, has revamped the menu and service following focus group input, worked with local companies to create new products and turned a USDA competitive foods violation into a profitable—and compliant—student store program.

  • Sustainability in Practice

    We've previewed a few of its components but the May 2012 is now online in full. This month FSD takes a look at how operators are employing sustainability initiatives. From bottled water bans and bus farms to turning food scraps into fuel, non-commercial directors are taking a hard look at the environmental impact of their operations and making changes to reduce that footprint. 

  • Mary Molt wins 2012 Gold Plate

    Mary Molt, assistant director for Housing & Dining Services at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., was named Gold Plate Award winner from the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA). The award was announced at a reception during the National Restaurant Show in Chicago.

  • Sustainability in Practice: San Diego Schools Turns Old Bus into Mobile Farm

    San Diego Unified School District is taking the classic school icon—a yellow bus—and transforming it into a mobile farm. The project is modeled after the Truck Farm, a traveling “farm” planted in the back of an old pickup truck.

  • Online Exclusive—Defining Sustainability: Bon Appétit Leads the Way

    Bon Appétit was one of the first contract companies to embrace the idea of buying local. “For us, sustainability started out as a culinary act, not a political one,” says CEO Fedele Bauccio. “I was concerned about flavor and taste, and I knew that fresher food would be more flavorful. So I challenged my people to work with local farmers and local artisans. That caused the lightblub to go off and led to our definition of sustainability.”

  • Snapshots: Habanero's, UC-Riverside

    When Dining Services' Mexican concept at the University of California, Riverside, just wasn't delivering how the department wanted it to, Cheryl Garner, executive director of Dining Services, decided to spice things up. Enter Habanero's, which offers students the opportunity to create their own Mexican menu items from a seemingly endless amount of possibilities.

Steal This Idea

Lunch and Learn
Cheryl Torre-Rastetter
General Manager (Cura)
Providence Point
Pittsburgh

As a new facility we aren’t hampered by long-standing events, so we’ve created new ones. One of the events we do five or six times a year is a Lunch and Learn with our chef. He cooks a three-course meal and teaches the residents, who pay a nominal fee, about what they are eating. We give the residents recipes so they can prepare the items on their own.

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Linda Stoll: A “Focused” Makeover
Linda Stoll used focus groups to revamp the foodservice program at Jeffco Public Schools.
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Recipes from Home: Potato Gnocchi with Portobello and Lamb

Gary Arthur, senior executive chef, Stanford University, Calif.: This dish is an adaptation of cornmeal dumplings and goat stew, a favorite growing up. One-pot dishes give our family the opportunity to include or exclude ingredients based on personal preferences. My kids thought the goat...