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Covenant Village adds dining director, chef
Nori Yamashita has been chosen as the director of dining services for Sodexo at Covenant Village of Colorado, a continuing care retirement community in Westminster, Colo. In addition, Ethan Biron has been hired as executive chef.
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Princeton to dining services employee: Give up medical marijuana or lose job
A former Libertarian candidate for the state Senate says his employer, Princeton University, has told him must choose between keeping his job or participating in New Jersey's medical marijuana program.
This year we started coffee and conversation with the foodservice director. It was a huge success. It gives hourly staff the chance to sit around the table with me and talk about what’s going on and have an outlet for ideas and frustrations, challenges, opportunities and triumphs. Next year we’re going to do that three times a year. I do it with four groups of kitchen managers, so about 15 people in each one. We say up front there’s no retaliation here. What happens here stays here, unless there’s something that needs to be corrected, and then I’ll correct it.