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Easy access may boost students' water consumption

 Jan. 12, 2015

Kids in New York City public schools drank water nearly three times more often after dispensers of cool, fresh tap water were conveniently placed near their lunch lines, researchers found.

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Va. schools may transfer foodservice employees to Sodexo payroll

 Jan. 09, 2015

The deadline for the Halifax County Public School Board to submit a renewal of their contract with Sodexo, a food service management company, to the Virginia Department of Education is March 31, and with that may be an amendment that would transfer cafeteria workers to become Sodexo employees.

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Leeza Lindsay, R.D.

Jan. 08, 2015

Leeza Lindsay, R.D., has made a difference at Torrance Unified School District by guiding the creation of a new wellness policy and putting together a breakfast program.

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Texas high school offers personalized cafeteria menu

Jan. 07, 2015

Lewis also plans to capitalize on the success of the salad bar by adding a sandwich area where students can design their own lunches Subway style.

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S.C. farm-to-school initiative goes statewide

Jan. 07, 2015

The program will expand from Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to also include counties across the state, where the Medical University of South Carolina's Boeing Center for Children's Wellness has worked to help schools implement their wellness policies.

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Mo. school opens cafeteria in FEMA shelter

Jan. 07, 2015

The FEMA shelter, built between the old cafeteria and the E.E. Camp gymnasium, serves a double function as a new cafeteria and auditorium.

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Just the facts, sir

By Paul King on Jan. 06, 2015

I bristle at the clichés reporters use, such as “mystery meat,” or when they make generalizations about food quality based on hearsay or on the writer’s own—often one-time—bad experience.

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Confessions of Linda Eichenberger

Jan. 05, 2015

Linda Eichenberger, director of child nutrition services for the Oak Hills Local School District in Cincinnati, admires her father, would love to travel through Alaska by car, and wishes she could dance.

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The Big Picture: Are food trucks the wheel deal?

Jan. 02, 2015

Food trucks have been slow to catch on in non-commercial foodservice, according to The Big Picture research.

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Fast food hasn’t improved in new millennium, study says

Jan. 02, 2015

Two new reports from researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University shows little change in fast food portion sizes and product formulation between 1996 and 2013.

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