menu development

More Budget-Friendly Beef

By Lindsey Ramsey on Jul. 27, 2012

In FSD’s July issue the Ingredients section took a closer look at budget friendly, but still delicious, cuts of beef. We spoke to Thomas Schneller, associate professor at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. to get his take on teres major and a few other cuts of beef that deliver flavor without breaking the bank.

Not all ideas worth stealing

By Lindsey Ramsey on Jul. 23, 2012

Compiling our 2nd annual Big Idea issue got us thinking about another type of idea. The idea that sounds great in theory but just didn’t fly in reality. We polled some operators to see if they would share what ended up being some of their worst ideas in the hope that you could learn from their pain.

Operations

The Big Idea: Ethnic Comfort Food

Jul. 16, 2012

We’re looking at our fall menu as we are really revolutionizing campus cuisine. One of our key objectives is celebrating the diversity of the student population through food. We’ve got students from across the globe. So a big part of redesigni

Operations

The Big Idea 2012

Jul. 16, 2012

At FoodService Director we encourage sharing ideas. We often refer to it as "stealing," but in a good way. Following the success of our Steal This Idea section we started an annual feature—The Big Idea—where you'll find 10 ideas

Workforce

Culinary Training Gets Things Cooking

By Lindsey Ramsey on Jun. 14, 2012

It’s summer and for many C&U operations that means there is a little time to breathe and reboot. A focus on the culinary for the upcoming year is often an important aspect of summer training. FSD spoke to three schools to see how they

Recipe Ideas for Next School Year’s Meal Regs

Jun. 12, 2012

Summertime is all about planning out menus for next school year. With the new meal regulations coming into play, districts across the country are hard at work reworking their offerings to comply with the new meals. We’ve got six recipes to help spark your menu development.

Small plate lessons from Brooklyn’s GoogaMooga

By Lindsey Ramsey on May 31, 2012

Two weekends ago Prospect Park in Brooklyn (a five minute walk from my apartment) hosted the first Great GoogaMooga festival. The festival was billed as “an amusement park of food and drink” and in that regard it definitely succeeded.

Operations

Healthy flavors, healthy kids: "The Biggest Loser," updating kids' menus and LA's fight for healthy menus

By Becky Schilling on May 24, 2012

Earlier this month I spent three days in San Antonio attending the CIA’s Healthy Flavors, Healthy Kids conference. Now in its second year, the conference brings together leaders from all aspects of child nutrition to discuss the growing childhood obesity epidemic and ways to combat that trend.