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Child Nutrition Reauthorization markup set for Jan. 20

 By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

The bill will provide flexibility to nutrition professionals who operate school and summer feeding programs, according to a source familiar with the draft legislation.

FSD Culinary Council

How to handle custom menu challenges

 By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

Question:How are you handling your biggest challenges with customizable menu items?Answers from FSD's Culinary CouncilCustomizable menus provide our guests with flexibility and a sense of pampering, b...

People

Can you train employees to be nice?

By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

When you’re interviewing someone to work in your operation, you need to look at behavioral traits. Those can be part of your criteria when you’re hiring.

Steal This Idea

Offer incentives for thinking green

Jan. 15, 2016

Eighty percent of Northwest Community Hospital's customers are our employees, so asking them to participate in the reusable-container program was easy.

Operations

Author Deb Lucke discusses 'The Lunch Witch'

By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

Deb Lucke provides a bit of levity for FSDs in her latest graphic novel, “The Lunch Witch,” which compares making potions to lunch ladies cooking.

Design

Exhibition cooking brings menu trends to life

By Lisa Arnett on Jan. 15, 2016

In order to continue delivering on display cooking's wow factor, operators are bringing different pieces of equipment into the consumer's view.

Operations

Minn. district sees boost in foodservice participation since revamp

By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

Changes included implementing “garden bars” at all schools, as well as build-your-own meal options such as a weekly taco bar.

Operations

School Nutrition Association of Illinois announces two new board members

By FSD Staff on Jan. 14, 2016

Kim Minestra, director of nutrition services at Evanston Township High School, will serve as president.

Operations

Ga. district revamps lunch menus using student feedback

By FSD Staff on Jan. 14, 2016

Changes include reducing the amount of pasta served, rotating menus more often and featuring those menus on a mobile application.

Operations

Elementary students help implement sugarcane lunch trays

By FSD Staff on Jan. 13, 2016

In an attempt to rid garbage bins of Styrofoam trays, students at Heritage Elementary found a natural alternative.

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