Measuring Environmental Practices
Data is a powerful tool, something that managers with Compass Group knew. So they asked the corporate office for an expansion to the company’s FOODprint toolkit, which helps operators track their location’s environmental impact. The toolkit of
Hospital Taps Tech Power to Enhance Wellness
The Food and Nutrition Services department at UCSF Medical Center is turning to a couple of high-tech gadgets to help customers live a healthier lifestyle.
I read a story over the weekend which reported on an interesting objection to the use of technology in school cafeterias. According to the report, which comes from kplctv.com, parents of students attending Moss Bluff Elementary School in Lake Charles, La., are up in arms over the proposed use of a palm vein scanner to check kids through the cafeteria line.
The 10th annual Critical Issues Conference, staged by the Society for Foodservice Management and held last this week at JP Morgan Chase in midtown Manhattan, scored a winner with this year’s theme: “Technologies of Today, Trends of Tomorrow.” The four-hour seminar focused on how technology is, and could be, changing the foodservice industry, a subject that every segment of this business should be examining.