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Operations

Healthcare foodservice trends from across the pond

English foodservice directors, or catering staff, as they’re called in the U.K., experience many of the same business trends and challenges as their American counterparts, plus a few that are unique.

Operations

Hot meals return to school after mice, roach infestation

Hot meals are finally returning to a Chicago School after a rodent and roach infestation was found in the kitchen and lunchroom. Students had been heating cold lunches at their desk for the past two months.

Henry County students aren’t eating the school lunch, so the board has voted to try an outside operator.

The Sodexo-managed foodservice operation at Marist College has earned a Marine Stewardship Council certification for serving wild-caught, sustainable seafood.

The baseball stadium’s concessionaire won’t say how much the disruptions in the Orioles’ schedule have hurt business, but another source indicates it's considerable.

One parent received a note with healthy lunch regulations after a teacher prevented her 5-year-old daughter from eating the Oreos in her packed lunch.

A bill is being considered in Hartford, Connecticut would fine businesses $1 per hour per employee, who doesn’t earn the $15 minimum wage.

A sportswriter has started a campaign to raise funds for concessions employees at Camden Yards, as five Orioles games have either been canceled, moved elsewhere, or denied fans access due to the unrest in Baltimore.

Students at one New York elementary school have taken sustainability to heart, enjoying healthful, local food and only taking as much as they’ll eat.

With the population rising and the demand for protein increasing, producers and operators will need to find enough protein to feed billions more mouths.

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