Operations

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

3 lessons from a millennial manager

Christina Deocampo explains how a management-team member with a younger perspective can be an asset to a foodservice facility.

Operations

Farm to dining in two hours

The manager of Kennesaw State’s Hickory Grove farm says food harvested makes it to the dining hall within two hours of being harvested.

This summer Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne is revamping its foodservice with a restaurant and a coffee shop, among other outlets from the contractor’s portfolio.

Consumers want foodservice operators to dig deeper on health, “natural” ingredients and local sourcing. Here’s how your streetside competition is responding.

Sodexo is beefing up its freshman orientation at the University of Louisville, offering 15 to 20 different menus that will be rotated throughout the different sessions.

Cafeteria-workers say that Burlington-based Nutri-Serve Food Management has cut benefits and failed to maintain good working conditions.

Through a combination of healthy lunch menus and physical education, St. Tammany Parish Public School has the largest number of schools (25) meeting the HealthierUS School Challenge guidelines.

A Bedford Elementary School student’s hot lunch was dumped in the trash after a cafeteria-worker found her account wasn’t up to date.

A group of students from Erie Intermediate School asked their school board to switch from plastic foam lunch trays to biodegradable or reusable trays, noting it would save the district $9,500 annually.

Lopez brings nearly 20 years of culinary and event management experience to Devonshire, an Erickson Living retirement community located in Florida.

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