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USDA defends the National School Lunch Program

The government has responded to social-media criticisms of the federal school lunch program championed by Michelle Obama.

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Five Star Senior Living wins award for celebrity chef program

The national senior living provider received a Best of the Best Award from the Assisted Living Federation of America for its celebrity chef program.

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital’s Thomas Thaman learned the importance of communicating a foodservice department’s needs while working with consultants.

For National Nutrition Month, we ran a healthy salad recipe contest, asking students to submit their favorite salad recipe according to set healthy criteria.

New School students say food prices at the University Center’s cafeteria are too high. For some, it means going hungry; others say it may explain why some students resort to stealing.

Leaders of the Rockford, Illinois, district plan to apply for a new USDA program called Community Eligibility Provision, which would allow the district to feed all of its students for free based on the reimbursement it would receive on qualifying students.

Some Georgia school districts plan to partner with community organizations to provide summer meals to students who rely on school lunch. Meals will be served via a “lunch bus” that stops at community centers, local churches and other locations.

The new grab-and-go option at Cal Poly Pomonoa’s Collins College of Hospitality Management is a welcome addition to a restaurant that had been taxing on students’ time and money.

A Harvard researcher says while structural changes in cafeteria food will get kids to pick up vegetables, more children actually consume the vegetables when a chef is involved.

Niche rounded up data from students and colleges around the U.S., rating their schools in quality of both on- and off-campus dining options.

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