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2019 Rising Stars

2019 Rising Stars

On the up and up—and up

 By Kelsey Squire on Mar. 12, 2019

Foodservice Director presents its inaugural class of Rising Stars—a group of industry professionals whose energy, ideas and passion stand apart from the crowd, earning the notice of their peers. See who made the list.

2019 Rising Stars

Christopher Erick

 Nov. 12, 2018

Reopening Cultivate, a student-run gastropub here on campus. Last summer, we changed our service model from full service to fine-fast to combat labor issues and high ticket times.

2019 Rising Stars

Michelle Michels

Oct. 27, 2018

My first major project with the CMSD nutrition team was to write technical specifications for an RFP for a menu management system, which would become the groundwork for a cloud-based software solution for the entirety of our school nutrition operation.

2019 Rising Stars

Olivia Chadwick

Oct. 18, 2018

All of my life, public speaking has been my biggest fear. Starting this job, I was given the monumental task of allergy training every member of the dining staff.

2019 Rising Stars

Bryan Aceves

Sep. 27, 2018

I have been volunteering with the Foodbank of Santa Barbara’s Teens Love Cooking program.

2019 Rising Stars

Ryan Wheeler

Sep. 18, 2018

We hired a videographer for my marketing department, and we have really been pushing the needle on video content.

2019 Rising Stars

Anna Smith

Sep. 17, 2018

We established student focus groups, where members of our menu operations team and myself meet with small groups of students across grade levels to gain feedback on new menu items.

2019 Rising Stars

Lauren Bradley

Sep. 16, 2018

I authored a grant and received funding to purchase a blender bike for our school district, which is used as the focal point in a nutrition class that I helped develop.

2019 Rising Stars

Kelsey Rosenbaum

Sep. 12, 2018

Most rewarding moment so far:  I meet with students who have food allergies, some of whom have visited more than 20 colleges but find they won’t be able to eat in the dining hall with their fr...

2019 Rising Stars

Peter Sokolski

Sep. 04, 2018

Being selected to take part in Sodexo’s International Chefs Program. Most of the chefs in my company for the program were executive chefs, so it was an honor to be selected.

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