Continue to Site >>>

Operations

The latest foodservice management practices, food-safety news and more.
Operations

What a few chefs really think about Black History Month menus

 By Paul King on Apr. 03, 2015

Last month, I suggested that it might be time to put an end to the special dinners that many institutions stage to celebrate Black History Month.

Operations

Dems: Make school lunch available 7 days a week, even when school is out

 Apr. 01, 2015

Democrats are proposing to expand the federal school lunch program to weekends and holidays, creating a full-time nutrition program.

Operations

Mom wants school district to ban peanuts

Apr. 01, 2015

A mother urges the district to ban peanuts after her daughter had a severe allergic reaction at school. Currently, the district has peanut-free lunch tables and classrooms.

Operations

School district loses foodservice hub in four-alarm fire

Apr. 01, 2015

A school district lost its foodservice hub when a high school kitchen and cafeteria went up in flames. The kitchen contained all the commodities for the high school, seven elementary schools, the Albany Boys and Girls Club and community after school programs.

Operations

Cornell chefs compete in campus’ first fruit and veggie cook-off

By Katie Fanuko on Apr. 01, 2015

Chefs at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., faced off March 25 in the first Fruit & Vegetable Recipe Contest.

Operations

Aramark worker fired for serving inmates trashed food

Apr. 01, 2015

In October 2014, an Aramark employee instructed kitchen workers to serve food that had been thrown into the trash to fellow inmates. The Michigan Department of Corrections says Aramark fired the employee.

Operations

Under fire: Dietetics group stops endorsing Kraft Singles

Apr. 01, 2015

After outrage from its members, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics will end its partnership with Kraft, through which the academy’s ‘Kids Eat Right’ label appeared on the cheese product.

Operations

San Diego State to be first in nation for green campus dining

By Katie Fanuko on Mar. 31, 2015

This fall, San Diego State will become the first U.S. campus to ‘certify green’ all campus-owned dining locations.

Operations

University to build 'food forest'

Mar. 31, 2015

Students and staff at Whitworth University are planting fruit trees and vegetables on an acre of unused land that will be open for anyone on campus to use.

Operations

Students say vegetarian options limited in Sodexo-run cafeteria

Mar. 31, 2015

Vegetarians at one Midwestern college say they are struggling to meet daily nutrition needs, because they have few menu choices.

  • Page 403