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How to teach kids to waste less food

Here’s an education guide to teach students, at all grade levels, how not to waste the food they take during school lunch.

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Bill seeks to repeal USDA caloric limits on student meals

The new No Hungry Kids act, currently before Congress, would address schools' complaints that some students need more calories than others.

A Sodexo supervisor says utensil theft is driving costs and hampering the dining atmosphere at his university.

Sodexo will be hiring university students to fill 64 dining services positons when a new building, with new dining opportunities, opens.

Foodservice workers at a Vermont high school want to get out of a union, which they say, is taking away their benefits.

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have found two critical points in children’s lives when exposure to junk food is most harmful. The discovery could help prevent people’s dependence on unhealthy foods.

Aramark reportedly is hiring a general manager at a Canadian university where students were served nearly raw pork chops and moldy lemons.

Some hospitals even offer a “McDelivery” program, allowing patients to order McDonald’s to their room, despite a physicians group's objection to unhealthful foods in hospitals.

The Kansas City Health Department had cited foodservice provider Aramark for safety violations in 2014, when inspectors found moldy food at concession stands during baseball playoff games.

The numbers of students benefitting from school breakfast is rising, and could continue to do so under the USDA's new community eligibility program.

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