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San Diego schools to provide meals during winter break

 Dec. 20, 2012

Sixty-one percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunches.

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Students resist healthy menus in Maryland

 Dec. 20, 2012

Snack line is most popular after meal reg changes.

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Seeing the whole story

By Paul King on Dec. 17, 2012

There was an interesting story in the New York Daily News last Saturday about a woman in a suburban St. Louis school district who was fired from her job as a cafeteria worker because she was caught giving away free lunches to a child she deemed to be needy.

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Alaska schools highlight local menu items

Dec. 17, 2012

Local program funded by state grant.

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Nutrition education added to the menu for LAUSD

Dec. 17, 2012

Board of Education approved resolution to include education as part of lunchtime.

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Surveying the non-commercial industry

Dec. 13, 2012

This month FoodService Director releases the results of The Big Picture, which we believe is the most comprehensive non-commercial research project ever conducted.

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Schools and colleges say "no thanks" to health incentives

Dec. 13, 2012

Operators don’t agree when it comes to incentivizing healthful selections. Forty-four percent of B&I operators offer some kind of healthy-option incentive, which is significantly higher than all other segments and almost 20 percentage points higher than the next closest segment, hospitals with 25%. College operators (38%), however, don’t feel it’s necessary to incentivize healthful purchasing. The reason: choice.

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Everybody loves breakfast—except millennials

Dec. 13, 2012

Breakfast, it would appear, is considered to be an important meal by most people—except for college students. At many universities students continue to eschew the morning meal, at least in campus foodservice outlets, while in other segments breakfast continues to enjoy healthy, even growing, participation.

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Staff size fluctuates by segment

Dec. 13, 2012

Overall, many staffs have remained the same size for the past two years, with 46% of respondents to The Big Picture research reporting this. More operators in every market segment—with the exception of colleges—report that their staffs had remained constant in size.

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Seeking culinary talent

Dec. 13, 2012

Most operators (63%) believe that there are more culinary school graduates seeking employment in non-commercial foodservice than there were five years ago. The highest percentage of operators who feel this way (78%) is in B&I.

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