menu development

Operations

University debuts new cafeteria, adds restaurants

In addition to its new Fresh Market cafeteria, Mississippi State University has added Moe’s Southwest Grill and Insomnia Cookies to its roster of campus food options.

Operations

High school to get student-run coffee shop

An Illinois high school is using a $50,000 grant to build a multipurpose student center featuring a coffee shop called Cafe de Shell, among other amenities.

Students in the Sausalito Marin City School District will be the first in the nation to go 100 percent organic when school begins this year.

During training camp, the football team was encouraged to make conscious eating decisions, with nutritional suggestions hanging over buffet style serving stations in the cafeteria.

Chefs for Wichita USD 259 spent months planning dozens of new breakfast and lunch menu items for the upcoming school year, including veggie alfredo, twisted cheese breadsticks and teriyaki chicken noodle bowls.

This fall, new beef dishes—a taco and beef chili—are part of Oakland Unified School District’s “California Thursdays” school lunch initiative, a statewide program with the goal of bringing locally sourced food to participating schools weekly.

The university’s newly renovated Garden Commons dining hall features a salad and fruit bar, Asian and Italian food stations, and a grab-and-go convenience store.

A soon-to-be-published study shows that students may choose a smaller portion if coupled with a modest prize.

Competition from outside catering operations forced the University of Notre Dame to take a close look at its own services and up its catering game.

After an upward trajectory in the past several years, these concessions fads, often found at theme parks, stadiums and zoos are here to stay.

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