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Operations

Denver Broncos revamp kitchen, cafeteria

An army marches on its stomach, Napoleon Bonaparte once said. John Elway, the Denver Bronco's general manager and executive vice president of football operations, must feel the same way about a certain orange-clad team.

There’s no space for us to invite local farmers to do a farmers market. So we had our produce company bring in local produce.

With the new model, campus food service will be provided by both the culinary program and local outside vendors.

Conventional industry wisdom has long maintained that trends start in fine dining and trickle down through the various foodservice strata.

The company operating the cafeteria at St. Vincent Hospital will be replaced next year, according to the hospital, and 82 food service workers will be laid off.

Two foreign companies have pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy for overcharging the U.S. military in connection with a contract to provide food and water to troops in Afghanistan.

Joseph Neubauer is stepping down as chairman of Aramark after 35 years in various positions with the contract feeder.

At the University of Montevallo, in Alabama, students participating in Falcon Flex, the campus’s cash equivalency system, can now use their points off campus, too. At the start of the fall semester, six local commercial restaurants—with more in the works—began accepting the points instead of cash.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium said this week it removed its Fortune 500 food service operator because of “philosophical differences.”

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