1. Time crunch
Make up for lost time in your schedule by completing a time study. To find out where the downtime in her labor is, Della Eiche, food and nutrition specialist at Harford County Public Schools in Bel Air, Md., breaks each part of the work schedule into small, manageable parts. “[The time] is there; you just have to find it, and that requires asking the people doing it everyday,” she says. “Ask new and temporary workers where they see it, for a pair of fresh eyes, and go through the tasks yourself to see where you are losing time.”