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Steal This Idea

Make a game of it

 Sep. 30, 2014

One example is the Potato Story game, in which we divide employees up into groups of four or five and ask them to create a short story

Operations

Princeton to look at dining employee’s request to use medical marijuana

 Sep. 11, 2014

A University employee who is one of the only New Jersey residents with a medical marijuana permit will potentially continue working for the University after a dispute in which he was reportedly told he would have to choose between medicating and his job.

Steal This Idea

Make a game of it

Aug. 11, 2014

We use games to help build teamwork and camaraderie in our department. One example is the Potato Story game, in which we divide employees up into groups of four or five and ask them to create a short story using various descriptions of potatoes, such as half-baked, boiled, shoestring, French fries, etc.

Operations

Sodexo re-establishes health benefits for college employees

Jul. 01, 2014

After booting several thousand cafeteria workers off its health care plan last year, the foodservice company Sodexo announced that it would re-establish health benefits for many employees.

Operations

Customer and employee wellness programs

Oct. 24, 2013

Nutritional and healthy eating material is the No. 1 type of information that operators provide in their employee wellness programs, according to The Big Picture.

Operations

Workforce size stagnant

Apr. 10, 2013

For most non-commercial operations, staffing remained stagnant during the past two years. College and those operations with more than $1 million in annual purchases were the most likely to have increased their staff in the past two years.

Operations

Seeing the whole story

By Paul King on Dec. 17, 2012

There was an interesting story in the New York Daily News last Saturday about a woman in a suburban St. Louis school district who was fired from her job as a cafeteria worker because she was caught giving away free lunches to a child she deemed to be needy.

Operations

Dealing with staff

Dec. 13, 2012

When it comes to human resources challenges, operators say employee morale/motivation is the most difficult aspect, according to The Big Picture research. Absenteeism also ranked high, especially in schools and B&I locations.

Operations

Operators differ about future management talent

Dec. 13, 2012

Even with unemployment running high, foodservice operators aren’t sure if career hunters will want to follow in their footsteps. The key determinant, they say, is how well the industry spotlights the opportunities available today to prospective candidates.

Operations

Staff size fluctuates by segment

Dec. 13, 2012

Overall, many staffs have remained the same size for the past two years, with 46% of respondents to The Big Picture research reporting this. More operators in every market segment—with the exception of colleges—report that their staffs had remained constant in size.

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