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We are creating recipe cards to display on our salad and sandwich bars to give customers ideas about salads and sandwiches they can assemble themselves.

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University’s new dining director looks to improve services

In a newly created position at Northwestern, Ken Field will be the university’s liaison with Sodexo.

Foodservice operators shared some tips during the National Restaurant Association show.

Each summer we run a four-week program that focuses on adding a wider variety of fruits and vegetables to employees’ diets.

According to Jill Horst, attendees should prepare a pre-show game plan and pace themselves.

A 200-foot vertical greenhouse proposed by a University of Kentucky student created buzz at a town hall meeting, as a Kentucky community seeks to draw visitors in the wake of a natural disaster.

For National Nutrition Month, we ran a healthy salad recipe contest, asking students to submit their favorite salad recipe according to set healthy criteria.

The Food Recovery Network at the University of Washington currently has three members and two restaurants—Panera Bread and Canlis—participating in food donations. Despite its small numbers, each week the FRN team rescues anywhere from 30 to 150 pounds of food.

Foodservice facilities will now have more information about the products they are buying, as well as cooking instructions to safely prepare them.

U.C. Berkeley’s six-year holistic nutrition plan includes a food pantry, emergency funds and loans, help creating a spending plan, tips on eating for $5 a day and a donation program for any student’s unused dining hall meal points.

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