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Equipment leak sickens cafeteria workers, disrupts school

A foul odor, determined to have come from old equipment, sickened two cafeteria workers and closed several classrooms.

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Cafeteria closes due to bat infestation

The cafeteria at George Munroe Elementary in Quincy closed after the foodservice manager found bats flying around the kitchen.

A food fight is brewing in Washington over school lunch standards as kids take mandatory servings of produce, just to throw them away.

A high school in Washington state won’t reopen the cafeteria where a student fatally shot four friends and wounded another last October.

A group on Northwestern University students are working with Sodexo to determine how much of the food served at dining halls is “ecologically sound, community-based, humanely produced or fair trade.”

Here's a look at what MD attendees took away from MenuDirections 2015, from the food to the speakers.

Allegations of food poisoning and mistreatment of workers has some students petitioning for Loyola Marymount University to terminate its contract with Sodexo.

The high school students make the sauce as part of a new culinary program, then sell it to their school’s contracted foodservice manager, Aramark.

Consumers are so keyed into social issues that the slightest comment about organics or GMOs could set off a food war, LYFE Kitchen’s Mike Donahue warned operators attending MenuDirections. He offered specifics on how to avoid a controversy on that and other fronts.

From slow-roasted meats to dressed-up sauces, here are suggestions to help any noncommercial kitchen.

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