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Sodexo tells GWU foodservice employees layoffs inevitable

Union representatives received email from Sodexo stating that two J Street workers would be laid off because of university-mandated cutbacks. But the university, facing a $20 million budget shortfall, says it has not directed the contractor to make any changes to the foodservice program.

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Food service workers demonstrate for higher wages

On Wednesday afternoon, USC Hospitality and Auxiliary Services workers held a protest on Childs Way near the Ronald Tutor Campus Center demanding higher wages. - See more at: http://dailytrojan.com/2015/01/15/food-service-workers-demonstrate-for-wage-raise/#sthash.YbH2tfjh.dpuf

Jessica Marchand, R.D., has revolutionized foodservice at WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh, N.C., by developing a full-service catering program and empowering her culinarians to take more control.

The deadline for the Halifax County Public School Board to submit a renewal of their contract with Sodexo, a food service management company, to the Virginia Department of Education is March 31, and with that may be an amendment that would transfer cafeteria workers to become Sodexo employees.

I bristle at the clichés reporters use, such as “mystery meat,” or when they make generalizations about food quality based on hearsay or on the writer’s own—often one-time—bad experience.

According to The Big Picture research, women continue to make up the majority of employees in all market segments.

No one wants to spend Christmas in the hospital, but for those who must, the hospitals want it to feel a bit like home with the familiar taste of a holiday meal.

Motivating employees is perhaps the major challenge facing operators today, according to The Big Picture.

Life Care Centers of America is welcoming a new executive food service director to the campus, David Decker.

We have gone to electronic inservice training, because it was hard to get everyone to attend training in person.

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