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Workforce

How quick training sessions get staff up to speed

 By Katie Fanuko on Oct. 20, 2015

76 percent of foodservice directors cited finding time for staff training as their top training challenge in FoodService Director’s 2014 Big Picture Survey.

Operations

Hospital restaurant a big hit with staff

 By FSD Staff on Oct. 20, 2015

Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center’s new restaurant, Northern Lights Café, is being hailed by local media as the go-to eatery on campus.

Menu

3 ways to meet the challenges of healthier initiatives

By Katie Fanuko on Oct. 20, 2015

An FSD shares how to hedge some of the issues when introducing healthier menus.

Operations

Researchers ask hospital cafeterias to be like Chipotle

By FSD Staff on Oct. 20, 2015

Experts at the University of California, San Francisco want them to be more like the fast-casual chain and phase out their use of antibiotic-loaded meat.

Operations

Minn. hospital spices up operations, menu

By FSD Staff on Oct. 20, 2015

Patients at Twin Cities Community Hospital can order from a menu, have their meal cooked-to-order and then have the executive chef come check to see how everything turned out.

Operations

N.J. woman files $5M lawsuit against hospital cafeteria

By FSD Staff on Oct. 20, 2015

The lawsuit alleges the kitchens at Mount Sinai Hospital were so dirty that an elderly patient was sickened by listeria bacteria and died.

Steal This Idea

Share revenue across stores

Oct. 19, 2015

We partnered with the director of volunteers in our hospital gift shop and opened a gift-shop espresso bar. We provide one barista to make coffee drinks.

People

What is the best way to fire an employee?

Oct. 15, 2015

How do you go about firing someone without making it harder than it needs to be? Advice Squad says there are two ways: a handbook or disciplinary process.

Steal This Idea

How to speed ripening with plastic wrap

Oct. 15, 2015

At Pennsylvania-based health-insurance provider Highmark Pittsburgh, staff use plastic wrap to cover and keep tables sanitized during food prep.

Menu

Facing off against fast-casual catering

By Marygrace Taylor on Oct. 15, 2015

Have-it-your-way menus and relaxed, help-yourself experiences at fast-casual restaurants are changing customers’ expectations for catering in a big way.

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