Operations
Texas congressman introduces bill to limit federal mandates in school food
As the federal government continues to exert influence over public schools, Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert has introduced a bill that would limit the feds from mandating which foods schools must serve.
Operations
Student gets detention for sharing school-bought lunch
An eighth grade student from Weaverville Elementary School got a detention slip for sharing his school prepared lunch Tuesday.
Seventy-three percent of operators strongly agree that the scope of a director’s job has expanded in the past five years to include responsibilities outside the traditional foodservice realm. That, however, doesn’t translate into managing additional departments, as 81% of operators are not responsible for departments outside foodservice.