K-12 Schools

Operations

Want ketchup? That’s 25 cents.

Operators looking to make a little extra dough by charging customers for condiments might not be happy with the result.

Steal This Idea

Building bonds

To help build the bond between the two departments we started baking up a fresh batch of cookies after lunch and taking it to a clinical unit that we know has been having a hard day because of lots of patients or critical care issues.

Students at Discovery Middle School won't just determine the future by what they're learning in classrooms, they're determining what children across the state will eat by what they're learning in lunchrooms.

Mark Guttridge, of Longmont's Ollin Farms, handed out yellow, purple and orange carrot sticks on Sunday at the Boulder Valley School District's inaugural Harvest Festival while talking up the freshness and quality of local produce.

Waukegan School District 60, last week, began the process required to resume food service to students during the ongoing teachers’ strike.

Food trucks are popular and soon they will be rolling into Duval County high schools serving hot meals with the menu the work of student chefs.

To help persuade residents to try a new menu item, we will sometimes add it as a third entrée option, like our Pork Pagoda (pictured).

Click through Snapshots of all the Creating Healthier Menus recipes from the September 2014 issue. This month features grain-based salads.

Rather than bore students with dry stats on calories and fat, Wesley Delbridge, R.D., food & nutrition director for Phoenix’s Chandler Unified School District, is turning healthy eating into a game.

San Francisco opened its first redesigned school cafeteria this week, with digital menu boards, casual seating and several options for grabbing lunch without a long line.

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