The editors of FoodService Director and the foodservice pros at Technomic applied their expertise to identify seven forces that will steer the noncommercial industry in the next year.
Dining services at UMass offers staff and faculty heat-and-eat dinners. The readymade meal kits providing a convenient service, and they capture takeout business from local supermarkets and restaurants.
Where possible, Georgetown Public Schools makes grab-and-go items reimbursable. If they are serving a fruit and milk smoothie, they let students take a granola bar.
Crafting intriguing new portable options could be just the thing to entice them. Here are four ways operators are thinking outside the breakfast burrito.