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Sydney Jackson, R.D.

Sydney Jackson, R.D., nutrition and food services manager at Saint Francis Children’s Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., has made an impact on foodservice by being responsible, creative and extremely motivated.

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Cooking with herbs

Fresh herbs do more than add a final flourish of color to bland-looking dishes. With the ability to add depth of flavor both during and after cooking, they help chefs use a lighter hand with less-favored ingredients like oil and salt.

As part of our ongoing Signature Series, we asked operators to share their signature bread recipes, including two versions of cinnamon rolls, multigrain rolls and focaccia.

UNC Healthcare’s two-year-old Restaurant Delivery program has made an encore performance at the recently acquired High Point Regional Hospital, in High Point, N.C.

Dr. Andrew Weil has yet to open one of his True Food Kitchen restaurants in Tucson, but his dishes will now be available at a venue previously unknown for culinary prowess — the hospital.

Getting our employees to be engaged in their work is a big focus at Carilion. Our department has decided to have mini cook-offs to add new recipes to our catering menu.

Be it crabs, mussels, clams, scallops or—the big daddy of all shellfish—lobster, operators have come up with endless ways to incorporate these invertebrates into their menus.

Four out of 10 operators indicated that finding the money to purchase new equipment and an overall declining budget were their top budget challenges.

Burgers, fries, chocolate bars and sugary desserts could disappear from hospital menus in Eastern Ontario over the next few years, muscled aside by more nutritious items.

Burgers, fries, chocolate bars and sugary desserts could disappear from hospital menus in Eastern Ontario over the next few years, muscled aside by more nutritious items.

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