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Repurpose leftover food

The person who is wrapping up and labeling leftovers is required to tell the next-day staff at least one way the leftovers can be used.

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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...

Commuter Reach Out

03-10-2013 Ideas and Innovation

We have recently joined the area property management association to meet the off-campus housing property managers. This helps with commuter meal plan sales and is an easy way for us to get our...

We have started a Monday Mile program as part of our Fresh Start Mondays. We have different one-mile routes around campus. Every Monday we put our route on Facebook and invite students, faculty and...

Top Chefs

03-06-2013 Ideas and Innovation

We held a top chef challenge for our FSDs. Teams were formed and they developed and created recipes utilizing the new nutritional guidelines for veggies and fruits. They also were required to...

Twitter Posts

03-01-2013 Ideas and Innovation

Kids don’t have a lot of time when they are in the lines for the cafeteria so they don’t read signs that you post. Instead, post it on Twitter so they can read it on their own...

Vegan Desserts

02-26-2013 Ideas and Innovation

Students were asking us about the potential for more vegan bakery-type options, from breakfast pastries to lunch desserts like cookies and brownies to more decadent desserts during the dinner hour...

Packaging Counts

02-21-2013 Ideas and Innovation

When we served grapes in the high school the kids would throw them at each other. Working with Kern Hall, area manager, we found out, however, that if we put the grapes in packaging the students...

Wellness Walk

02-15-2013 Ideas and Innovation

To encourage wellness, staff are encouraged to divide into teams and walk for wellness. Each team gets a T-shirt and records its distance walking around an indoor track. At the end of the week the...

Healthy BBQ

02-15-2013 Ideas and Innovation

Barbecue is king, especially in the South, but we have noticed our customers cutting back on pork. So we started offering pulled turkey breast barbecue—along with pulled pork—on...