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Forecasted food trends 2015

 Jan. 06, 2015

Faculty members of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have looked into their crystal ball and come up with food trends they see for 2015.

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Composting measured in tons on UGA campus

 Jan. 06, 2015

UGA’s dining halls serve about 28,000 meals each day when school is in session, and not everyone cleans their plate.

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Confessions of Linda Eichenberger

Jan. 05, 2015

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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Miami U Dining Services goes local

Jan. 05, 2015

From made-in-Butler-County honey in every Miami University dining hall to a farmers market in Uptown Oxford each weekend, Miami University students have a growing taste for local food – and the university is catching on.

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U. of Md. "teaching" robots how to cook

Jan. 05, 2015

Researchers at the University of Maryland and a group of Austrian researchers teamed up to teach robots how to cook with YouTube cooking videos.

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University of Colorado student pushes for trayless dining

Jan. 02, 2015

Trayless dining in university dining halls: a simple idea, but one with few case studies and fewer reliable metrics.

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The Big Picture: Are food trucks the wheel deal?

Jan. 02, 2015

Food trucks have been slow to catch on in non-commercial foodservice, according to The Big Picture research.

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Fast food hasn’t improved in new millennium, study says

Jan. 02, 2015

Two new reports from researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University shows little change in fast food portion sizes and product formulation between 1996 and 2013.

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The Big Picture: Employees - Who are they?

Dec. 31, 2014

According to The Big Picture research, women continue to make up the majority of employees in all market segments.

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The Big Picture: Construction and renovation

Dec. 30, 2014

The majority of operators said they are planning to renovate at least part of one or more of their dining facilities in the next two years.

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