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Operations

3 newly discovered ideas to swipe

Our roundup of ideas includes a speedy way to serve barista-style lattes, an easy design fix to boost interactivity and a chicken-cooking technique to spice up vegetables.

Operations

USDA awards $1.3 million to aid children’s nutrition

The funding will help 17 rural communities implement creative strategies and programs to reduce child food insecurity, officials say.

Damian Monticello took the prize in our MenuDirections contest with his team’s idea for helping disabled customers reach displayed products.

Healthy-snack mandates, yucky food photos and Chipotle-like health scares are among the things keeping noncommercial operators up at night.

FSD’s editors have identified the concepts that abound in ideas with noncommercial applicability. Here’s a sampling.

Foodservice workers at Lincoln Junior-Senior High School are permitted to throw away school lunches from students who have accrued more than $6.75 in lunch debt.

FoodService Director’s Chefs’ Council shared valuable insights at MenuDirections 2016. Here are six ideas to steal from the five panelists.

Mayor de Blasio has reportedly withdrawn support based on mixed results from a pilot in the city’s middle schools.

Emojis could help schools across the nation cut down on food waste, officials say.

On the contract-management side, Rick Abramson of Delaware North was selected in specialty foodservice and Mike Barclay of Southern Management was the winner in the business-and-industry category.

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