new concepts

Operations

Wolfgang Puck Express Enters Healthcare Market

The first Wolfgang Puck Express location in a hospital is scheduled to open in August at the new University Hospital Seidman Cancer Center on the campus of UH Case Medical Center.

Operations

Restaurant-Quality Retail

A renovation and an addition to the campus’ student center greatly increased the retail offerings at the 32,400-student University of Missouri, according to Alan Petersen, manager of student center dining. The new concepts—Do Mundo’s, Ka

To the U.S. Navy and the federal government, a military installation such as Naval Base San Diego is a major cog in the defense of our country. But to a man like Steve Hammel, dining services program manager for the Southwest region of the U.S. Navy, NBSD

Tucked away inside a bustling campus building at 11,300-student Washington University in St. Louis is an intimate 50-seat restaurant called Ibby’s, the newest addition to Bon Appétit’s dining program at the university.

When Ron DeSantis, former consultant at the Culinary Institute of America, heard that Yale University, in new Haven, Conn.,  was looking to fill a new position for director of culinary excellence...

The federal government nudged a bit closer to the idea of free meals for all schoolchildren this summer when the U.S. Department of Agriculture selected three states to kick off a new universal free breakfast and lunch program.

In January Gail Sharry, foodservice manager at 3,000-student New London Public Schools in Connecticut, started an after-school supper program. Sharry talked to FSD about the program and the relative ease she had starting it.

There is definitely a blending of the old and the new here in Phoenix at the 2011 Association for Healthcare Foodservice conference. There are plenty of veteran operators and suppliers in attendance, but also an exciting number of first-time attendees.

Speaking about child nutrition reauthorization last year, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said one of his main priorities was to increase student access to school meals on non-school days, especially during the summer months. The U.S. Department of A

As we roll into the month of May, FoodService Director prepares to introduce a new advisory board, whose members will help guide us in planning our editorial calendars and our MenuDirections conference, and provide a sounding board for what works, what doesn’t work and what could work better in the pages of FoodService Director and foodservicedirector.com.

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