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Mass. schools, universities share farm-to-school tips
Foodservice professionals and educators attended the 2015 Massachusetts Farm to Cafeteria Conference to learn best practices and share ideas on how to improve their farm-to-school programs.
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Massachusetts university creates additional meal periods
In response to student requests, Brandeis University now offers five meal periods per day: Breakfast, continental breakfast, lunch, limited lunch and dinner.
The Healthy School Meals Realized through Techonology (SMART) Schools is a program designed by preventative medicine experts to track students’ food choices when cafeteria workers scan a student’s identification card and log their food selections. Parents receive a monthly report card that summarizes the food selections that their children have made.
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mission Bay will employ 25 robots to traverse the 800,000-square-foot hospital, carrying food trays, pharmaceuticals, and even blood and tissue samples to appropriate parts of the facility. Employees who used to make such deliveries will be assigned other, more meaningful duties, say administrators.