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Sticker Info

 Oct. 22, 2012

To help our new students quickly understand how and where they can use their meal plan, we installed counter stickers indicating ways to pay, meal periods and meal equivalencies. I always print extra so they can be replaced due to wear and tear.

Menu

Portioned Plate Offers “Educational Surprise”

By Lindsey Ramsey on Oct. 22, 2012

When the USDA and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) created their respective “healthy plate” icons to replace the traditional food pyramid recommendations, operators had to take note if they were going to offer customers information o

Design

Campus Tour: University of Kansas, Lawrence

Oct. 18, 2012

They say you can't go home again. Online Managing Editor Lindsey Ramsey decided to ignore the old adage and return to her alma mater to see what had changed in foodservice in the six years since she graduated. Luckily, Nona Golledge, director of KU Di

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Supervisors’ Summit

Oct. 17, 2012

Foodservice supervisors are the critical link between management, front-line staff and guests, but they are often overlooked in training or when we are soliciting input. We have a Supervisors’ Summit several times a year to bring together all superv

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Holiday Carts

Oct. 17, 2012

Our dining services team created a mobile Valentine’s Day kiosk. We included fresh-baked sweets, candies, fresh flowers, cards and other novelty items. The carts were pushed around campus not only to promote campus dining but also to give a very bus

Operations

Maine dining launches mobile ordering program

Oct. 16, 2012

Program allows students to order food from phones to skip the line.

Operations

Cal Dining Scores TD at New Stadium

By Paul King on Oct. 15, 2012

Ten years ago, when Shawn La-
Pean was hired at the University of California to take over the university’s dining program, he had a conversation with athletic department administrators about managing concessions at 70,000-seat Memorial Stadium. Th

Stealing stories: Follow the trail

By Lindsey Ramsey on Oct. 15, 2012

Today’s story comes from Tim Dietzler, director of dining services at Villanova University and current NACUFS president, who remembers when the guilty party literally left a trail for the police to find.

Operations

Maryland turns to design students for marketing strategy

Oct. 15, 2012

Graphic design students will revamp website and build department as brand.

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Local Floats

Oct. 15, 2012

Iced coffee is a popular seller in one of our retail units. Since it was so popular we started selling Iced Coffee Floats by adding local ice cream. The coffee is fair-trade certified and the ice cream is local so it makes for a very sustainable treat.

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