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The Big Idea 2012

 Jul. 16, 2012

At FoodService Director we encourage sharing ideas. We often refer to it as "stealing," but in a good way. Following the success of our Steal This Idea section we started an annual feature—The Big Idea—where you'll find 10 ideas

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The Big Idea: Performance Dining

 Jul. 16, 2012

Last fall, we opened Arrillaga Family Dining Commons, a state-of-the-art dining facility with a central production kitchen. The dining hall features Performance Dining, which was developed by Stanford Dining in partnership with Stanford Athletics, the Sch

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The Big Idea: Allergy Safety

Jul. 16, 2012

Allerschool is an online program that helps parents and students know what allergens are in every one of our food items. It went live in August 2011. It’s made our special diets management so much easier. We have a whole lot of students—it see

A cure for allergies?

By Lindsey Ramsey on Jul. 16, 2012

I’m still downloading all the greatness that was NACUFS 2012, of which I’ll post a more comprehensive blog later this week. However, there was one thing I was amazed to learn and am interested to hear operators’ different takes on, especially those who weren’t in attendance at the conference.

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Teaching Moments

By Becky Schilling on Jul. 11, 2012

Nutrition education is becoming an increasingly important aspect for child nutrition directors. With the new meal regulations in effect as of July 1, school meals must now include a wider variety of fruits and vegetables in larger quantities than ever bef

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Marketing Healthy

By Emily Rogan on Jul. 10, 2012

As colleges and universities across the country join the movement to offer healthier and more nutritious foods, foodservice directors are faced with the challenge of marketing those healthy foods to students and faculty members alike. FSD checked in with

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Breakfast may help cut diabetes risk

Jul. 10, 2012

A new study shows that people who eat breakfast every day are less likely to become obese, develop Type 2 diabetes, or gain stomach fat.

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Healthy Performance

By Paul King on Jun. 26, 2012

Sometimes the concept of stealth health can be actualized in something as simple as a name change. That’s how Holy Cross Dining, at the College of the Holy Cross, solved the problem of how to convince students to eat more healthfully, when it introd

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Breakfast Business

By Becky Schilling on Jun. 22, 2012

Everyone knows the saying, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Byron Sackett, child nutrition director for 12,000-student Lincoln County Schools, questioned why that notion wasn’t being taken to heart in his district. So Sacke

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Tired minds crave junk food

By Becky Schilling on Jun. 12, 2012

A new study came out this week that said if you’re tired you are more likely to crave junk food than when you’re well rested. The researchers, from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University in New York, found that tired brains associate junk food with reward and pleasure, making sleep-deprived people more likely to grab a burger or slice of pizza.

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