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Photos from Day 2 at MenuDirections 2014

 Apr. 03, 2014

Gerry Ludwig, Health & Wellness workshops and the awards banquet highlight the second day.

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L.A. Unified manager fights to reduce $100K of daily food waste

 Apr. 03, 2014

It's lunchtime at Washington Preparatory High School in Los Angeles, but 16-year-old Parrish Jackson has barely touched her turkey burger and apricots. She's dumping them into the trash can.

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Photos from Day 1 at MenuDirections 2014

Apr. 03, 2014

The Retail Experience workshops and the Dine-Around highlight the conference's first day.

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Schools increasingly check students for obesity

Apr. 01, 2014

Amid the nation's childhood obesity epidemic, schools in nearly a quarter of all states record body mass index scores, measuring hundreds of thousands of students.

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Website names the 10 best school meals programs

Mar. 31, 2014

The Daily Meal names it's 10 best school meals programs.

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Tactics to cut costs

By Becky Schilling on Mar. 27, 2014

Reducing staff hours/positions is the most often cited tactic operators employ to cut costs (48%). B&I, colleges and schools are more likely than hospitals, nursing homes, long-term care, senior living and retirement homes to cut the number of menu items as a way to reduce costs. Schools (28%) are the most likely to lower costs by making fewer items from scratch. Colleges are the most likely segment to reduce hours of operation (34%).

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NY councilman pushes to add halal food options in public schools

Mar. 27, 2014

City Councilman Rafael Espinal (D-Brooklyn) announced Wednesday he wants to expand school lunch menus to include halal food options for Muslim students.

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Philadelphia students campaign for healthier lunch options

Mar. 27, 2014

Philadelphia students are campaigning to dump the company that provides many of the city’s public schools with frozen, pre-plated lunches, contending that the food provided by Maramont, a subsidiary of Illinois-based Preferred Meal Systems, Inc., tastes bad and is bad for their health.

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New Jersey schools put a stop to on-campus food delivery

Mar. 26, 2014

It’s a trend that is being stopped in its tracks. Administrators in one New Jersey school district have put a stop to food deliveries during school hours. It had become a popular alternative to the school cafeteria.

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Washington student project replaces foam trays with reusable trays

Mar. 25, 2014

One-use foam lunch trays will soon be a thing of the past at Washington School thanks to five environmentally conscious eighth-graders.

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