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September 2014: Desserts

Click through Snapshots of all the dessert recipes from the September 2014 issue. This month features custards and puddings.

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Earth Day garden

We launched an Herban Veggie Garden on our patio connected to our cafeteria in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. We have about 15 planters of herbs and vegetables that we are able to harvest and use during our peak times. This initiative went along with our other sustainable efforts and will give our chefs great organic ingredients year-round.

As part of our ongoing Signature Series, we asked operators to share their unique recipes featuring granola.

A report by Dining and Culinary Services revealed student employment for fall 2014 is short 3,500 hours in comparison to last year.

Responding to student feedback, Harvard University Dining Services will now serve a heartier breakfast on Saturday mornings before brunch, according to an email announcement sent out on Thursday.

Dining Services and the University Health Center are collaborating with other campus departments and student volunteers to open a food pantry in late October in Cole Field House that will distribute free pre-packed bags of groceries to students, faculty and staff in need.

We have a single-stream recycling program because we don’t have the ability to compost.

Auburn University students and faculty probably didn't notice the changes in their dining rooms this summer, but school officials said today the campus is now "Styrofoam free."

Seventy-three percent of operators strongly agree that the scope of a director’s job has expanded in the past five years to include responsibilities outside the traditional foodservice realm. That, however, doesn’t translate into managing additional departments, as 81% of operators are not responsible for departments outside foodservice.

Click through Snapshots of all the menu strategy recipes from the September 2014 issue. This month features snacks.

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