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Operations

Delaware North takes a hit at Camden Yards

The baseball stadium’s concessionaire won’t say how much the disruptions in the Orioles’ schedule have hurt business, but another source indicates it's considerable.

Operations

College food fees skyrocket

NPR reports high room and board expenses leave students paying about $24 a day for food on the cheapest meal plan – twice what the government says an average American spends.

Sodexo announced it is increasing meal swipe prices by five-percent at one Hawaii university due to increases in electricity and other factors.

On Friday, when we break down our salad bar, we freeze 75 percent of the items for use in soups and other dishes.

In non-commercial foodservice settings, only 4 to 10 percent of waste is pre-consumer, typically kitchen waste such as fruit and vegetable peels.

Gay Anderson has transformed the foodservice at Brandon Valley School District by introducing the Net Off Invoice program, conducting a plate-waste study and creating a prime vendor program.

A Sodexo supervisor says utensil theft is driving costs and hampering the dining atmosphere at his university.

Healthy but unpopular lunches are costing cafeterias nationwide. One foodservice director has even vowed to write to Michelle Obama to voice her concerns.

A Tennessee county school board decided to hold off on potentially outsourcing foodservice until more information is gathered and analyzed.

In one New Jersey school district, a foodservice contractor has solved the problem of serving school meals that satisfy both government mandates and students’s appetites.

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