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Healthier Retail Food: Better Taste, Better Business

 By Emily Rogan on Jul. 22, 2012

When it’s lunchtime in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, folks head to Mercy Medical Center—not because they’re sick, but because they’re hungry. The cafeteria food is unexpected, tasty and made from scratch, often with local produce: one day it

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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

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Food Trucks Take to the Streets

By Lindsey Ramsey and Paul King on May 16, 2012

Miami University and the University of California, Riverside, launch mobile feeding units.

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The Studio, University of Kansas, Lawrence

May 03, 2012

The fine arts residence hall, lovingly known as “Hash,” deserved something special when it came time to renovate its retail foodservice location, says Mark Maranell, general manager of the...

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Habanero's, University of California, Riverside

Apr. 26, 2012

When Dining Services' Mexican concept at the University of California, Riverside, just wasn't delivering how the department wanted it to, Cheryl Garner, executive director of Dining Services, decided to spice things up. Enter Habanero's, which

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Steal This Hotel Idea

By Paul King on Apr. 23, 2012

Angelo Mojica, director of nutrition services for UNC Healthcare, has taken a page from such hotel chains as Holiday Inn Express to craft his version of a room service program that is popular and cost-saving.Called Restaurant Delivery, the program allows

Stealing ideas from random lists: football stadium edition

By Lindsey Ramsey on Mar. 13, 2012

The Bleacher Report posted a fairly arbitrary slideshow about the coolest food items offered at the top 25 college football stadiums. Some choices are from off-campus restaurants, but there were some shout-outs for the colleges' respective foodservice operators. I know not every dining services department handles concessions for their institutions but a few of these menu items seemed interesting enough to share.

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Library Cafes Balance Large Volume with Small Spaces

By Lindsey Ramsey on Mar. 06, 2012

There was a time when food in a library was definitely considered a no-no, but as technology has changed libraries have become more welcoming of foodservice as a way to bring traffic back to the stacks. Although there are still some campuses with librarie

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J&W Delivers “Contemporary Rustic” Italian Concept

By Lindsey Ramsey on Feb. 08, 2012

When the time came to design a concept for a vastly underserved area of campus at 10,700-student Johnson & Wales University, contemporary rustic Italian became the winning idea, according to Steven Sandblom, director of Campus Dining.

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Hallmark Co.

Jan. 26, 2012

Christine Rankin, corporate foodservices manager for Hallmark, gave FSD a tour of the company's facilities in Kansas City, Mo. Hallmark is one of few remaining self-operated B&I foodservice departments in the country.

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