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 Dec. 01, 2014

To update our recipe database and bring consistency to all 23 of our ACTS communities, we purchased a menu program from Morrison called Webtrition.

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Dropping out of federal lunch program raises sales at Chicago schools

 Dec. 01, 2014

More students are eating the school lunches at the northwest suburban school district that revamped its food service program after rejecting a federal subsidy this year.

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Push for fresher food brings rodent problem to San Francisco schools

Dec. 01, 2014

The San Francisco Unified School District's new fresh-food program has been giving schools a stomachache, as a lack of refrigerators has put the brakes on plans to expand the program.

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2014 LTC/Senior Living Census: Ancillary foodservice locations gain in popularity

By Becky Schilling on Dec. 01, 2014

There were 238 respondents in our 2014 LTC/Senior Living Census Report. Each respondent operates foodservice in at least one of the following arenas: nursing home/skilled nursing/long-term care; assisted living; independent living or rehabilitation/psychiatric.

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School finds composting to be worth the mess

Dec. 01, 2014

The mess is a small price to pay for a program that officials hope will keep thousands of pounds of food waste away from the landfill, and instill in children lifelong habits.

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California college to open “food forest”

Nov. 20, 2014

Merced College’s Los Banos campus on Friday held a dedication and groundbreaking ceremony for its Food Forest, a garden area that will be arranged with fruit-bearing trees, berry bushes and herbs along the area between the campus parking lots and the Los Banos Creek.

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How one Buffalo hospital is surviving the blizzard

Nov. 20, 2014

The hospital at 565 Abbott Road near Cazenovia Park held 308 inpatients when the snow began and is caring for about 330, including those in the emergency room, with a staff consisting mainly of the on-call doctors and employees from Monday and Tuesday. Some people have been there since their 7 a.m.-to-7 p.m. Monday shift.

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Dawn Aubrey: Lighting a fire for change

By Paul King on Nov. 20, 2014

Dawn Aubrey has made a difference at the University of Illinois by guiding staff to create specialty restaurants and pushing departments to become leaders in sustainability.

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How to implement a healthy-beverage program

By Becky Schilling, Kate Parham Kordsmeier, Megan Warmouth and Paul King on Nov. 19, 2014

In January 2012, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), in Lebanon, N.H., discontinued the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) in the dining room and café, vending machines, on-site retailers and every other venue on campus.

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Boston TV gives hospital cafeterias low marks

Nov. 19, 2014

Boston is home to many of the nation’s best hospitals, but the I-Team discovered some of these institutions may not always be as careful with the food they serve as they are with patient care.

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