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Steal This Idea
July 31st, 2014

Steal This Idea

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Steal This Idea

Get buy-in

In order to get buy-in for breakfast in the classroom, there is an incredible amount of planning done with stakeholders to ensure that we can show the value for this and to get their thoughts and see...

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Recognizing Distress

03-26-2013  Ideas and Innovation

Our staff has more interaction with students than most departments on campus. So we work with the university counseling center to train front-line staff on how to recognize students who may be in...

Edible Arrangements

03-18-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We raffle edible bouquets/arrangements to promote fruit and vegetable intake. The bouquets are similar to what you see in an Edible Arrangements’ basket, with fresh fruits and vegetables...

Don’t Forget Produce

03-13-2013  Ideas and Innovation

Now that students must take a fruit or vegetable to make a reimbursable meal, we started a Don’t Forget campaign. We have signs and stickers and we created a logo. It’s all about...

Online Tools

03-10-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We have several new technology pilots. We are shortly rolling out Net Nutrition so residents have the ability to access nutritional information regarding the menu items we serve. We also have an...

Menu Realism

03-10-2013  Ideas and Innovation

When there’s a graphic on our menu, it’s something we serve. It’s not clip art. When patients look at the menu and they say, “I want that,” we say,...

Online Ordering

03-10-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We’re piloting a new online ordering system for our main café. You’ll be able to order food from any web-enabled device and pick your order up at a later point. We hope...

Sustainable Blog

03-10-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We created a Sustainable Products Project blog utilizing Blogger, Google Maps and Google Earth. Once we identify local food items that we use, we import where they are from into the blog. We also...

Fresh-baked Cookies

03-10-2013  Ideas and Innovation

Imagine the smell of fresh-baked cookies. We offer them on our pediatric floor every afternoon between 2:30 and 3:30. Happiness is a cookie with milk. 

Get Well Meals

03-10-2013  Ideas and Innovation

We provide Get Well Meals for students who are feeling under the weather. The meals feature our soup of the day, crackers, fruit, ginger ale, water, juice and Jell-O. Students just contact their...

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