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Questionable food safety confessions

 By Dana Moran on Jun. 15, 2016

Deputy Editor Dana Moran grew up in a household of questionable food safety. Here are some transgressions/worst practices that she still commits today.

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How FSD Kellie Piper empowers SAP Palo Alto

 By Lisa Arnett on Jun. 15, 2016

Australian native Kellie Piper inherited her love for food from her chef father, and started her career in hotels and restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Customize healthy eating with salad shakers

Jun. 15, 2016

Huron Valley Schools has kitchens without backflow preventers or potable water to wash greens, so it set up a salad shaker bar with prewashed produce.

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What is 'clean' eating, anyway?

By Kelly Killian on Jun. 15, 2016

The “clean” halo doesn’t just apply to the captive audiences served by noncommercial foodservice. Technomic says major chains are using real ingredients too.

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Skipping the salad bar: A case for premade

By Patricia Cobe on Jun. 15, 2016

Offering ready-made composed salads can cut down on waste, save labor, speed the line and increase fresh grab-and-go items. It can also control costs.

Operations

Is it ever OK to serve expired food?

By John Morell on Jun. 15, 2016

With more retailers and operators moving toward serving “ugly” produce, it’s clear that visual appeal isn’t everything when it comes to food nowadays.

Operations

How LTOs create a marketing boon

By Amy McKeever on Jun. 15, 2016

By limiting the supply of certain dishes, like Yale University did when it slashed chicken tenders, operators have created a demand—and also hype.

Operations

How to come up with a workable pricing plan

By John Morell on Jun. 15, 2016

Because noncommercial foodservice has a more captive audience than grocery stores and restaurants, and its budget usually is just one piece of a large pie.

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Foodservice's role in healing

By FSD Staff on Jun. 15, 2016

Marydale DeBor, an associate administrator at the Yale School of Medicine, spoke with FoodService Director about hospital foodservice’s role in healing.

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Cut food waste by incorporating excess ingredients

Jun. 15, 2016

Penn State University dining reduced food costs by designing menus to utilize cast-offs, resulting in the total utilization of a product instead of waste.

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