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Use social media to introduce new concepts

Each fall, the University of Oklahoma hosts a food-sampling event called Tasty Tweets to introduce freshmen to dining concepts.

Operations

Aramark partners with 7 NFL playoff teams

The vendor will provide food, retail and facility services to competing teams.

The new recommendations for how America should eat call for consuming less salt and more fiber and whole grains.

The members assumed their new posts Jan. 1.

The format, launched by dining company Eurest, offers small-portion options as well as fresh produce for at-home meal preparation.

St. Joseph Memorial Hospital only needs three or four servings of meatloaf, so instead of making a large loaf, they place the meatloaf mix into muffin tins.

When making the switch from a cafeteria to retail, operators also must consider how the transition will affect staff, especially if job changes are eminent.

Across operations enormous and small, our FSDs of the Month had big effects on their operations throughout 2015. Reacquaint yourself with our 12 picks.

Remember when they used to call it institutional foodservice? There’s nothing that blasé about the designs of these four noncommercial facilities. Form isn’t sacrificed to function, and each of our picks of the years best delivers something more than just an inviting setting.

We asked noncommercial operators to share their requests for Santa that would benefit the industry in 2016.

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