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Hospitals jump on the healthy food bandwagon

As more doctors use food as a medical tool, health care providers are making nutritious options more readily available — even farmers markets.

Operations

Making bacon at Microsoft

In order to add a signature spin to its menu, the team at Compass Group-managed Microsoft Dining, in Redmond, Wash., has brought home the bacon—its own bacon, that is.

Jessica has made an impact on foodservice by aligning menus to new regulations, managing special diets and implementing the TrakNOW system.

If you attended public schools, you likely remember the lunches you stared down as a student: Options were often unappetizing, institutional in appearance and probably unhealthy.

Tufts Dining Services will implement a number of updates to its dining operations at Tufts this year in response to feedback from faculty, staff and students.

We have real, usable, full-size plates that we mix in with our regular plates to raise awareness of healthy dining balance.

Sodexo, a food-service company with numerous Vermont accounts, announced Thursday afternoon a program to increase local foods in institutional settings.

Harvard University Dining Services will begin serving brunch on Saturdays in Annenberg Hall and eleven of the twelve upperclassman Houses this week.

Wholesale prices for choice-grade beef—the main variety consumed in the U.S.—surged 11% from May 2013 to May 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The aroma of grilling pizza and burgers will now mingle with the scent of orange blossoms in the center of the Florida Southern College campus.

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