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Jessica Marchand, R.D.: Empowering Talent

Jessica Marchand, R.D., has revolutionized foodservice at WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh, N.C., by developing a full-service catering program and empowering her culinarians to take more control.

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Florida school becomes certified farm

It's official. Pine Grove Elementary School is a school — and a farm. The school has a lot of gardens, and it can legally sell its produce to the school cafeteria and to the public.

Palo Verde College is currently looking for applicants interested in operating the Pirates Den located inside the services building.

The restaurant is an express version of Chick-fil-A, with a smaller menu than regular Chick-fil-A locations.

The deadline for the Halifax County Public School Board to submit a renewal of their contract with Sodexo, a food service management company, to the Virginia Department of Education is March 31, and with that may be an amendment that would transfer cafeteria workers to become Sodexo employees.

Restaurateurs who own eateries on busy Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, Tenn., adjacent to the University of Tennessee campus, are upset over two new restaurants that opened this past fall on campus property.

Boston-based start-up LeanBox provides refrigerated fresh food from self-serve kiosks to more than 50 companies in New England, most within the Route 495 corridor.

I bristle at the clichés reporters use, such as “mystery meat,” or when they make generalizations about food quality based on hearsay or on the writer’s own—often one-time—bad experience.

Delaware North Cos. has named Jeremy Jacobs Jr. and Louis Jacobs, sons of Chairman Jeremy Jacobs, as co-CEOs.

Linda Eichenberger, director of child nutrition services for the Oak Hills Local School District in Cincinnati, admires her father, would love to travel through Alaska by car, and wishes she could dance.

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