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A collection of menu planning ideas for foodservice operators.

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The Big Idea: Smash Your Food

 Jul. 16, 2012

The educational game Smash Your Food allows kids to pick your food face, which becomes your avatar. Then you enter your age, gender and level of activity. That gives you an RDI (recommended daily intake). Then you play. The child tries to guess the cubes

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The Big Idea: Performance Dining

 Jul. 16, 2012

Last fall, we opened Arrillaga Family Dining Commons, a state-of-the-art dining facility with a central production kitchen. The dining hall features Performance Dining, which was developed by Stanford Dining in partnership with Stanford Athletics, the Sch

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The Big Idea: Allergy Safety

Jul. 16, 2012

Allerschool is an online program that helps parents and students know what allergens are in every one of our food items. It went live in August 2011. It’s made our special diets management so much easier. We have a whole lot of students—it see

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The Big Idea: Hosting Healthy Meetings

Jul. 16, 2012

We recently went through our catering menu and looked at it in terms of health and allergens. We are always getting questions from customers about allergens or what items are gluten free on the catering menu. So we made an allergen-focused catering menu.&

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The Big Idea: Wellness in the Schools

Jul. 16, 2012

Wellness in the Schools is a nonprofit that started off very small, grass roots, parent-run. Our mission is to improve fitness, nutrition and environment in New York City public schools. I started this organization because I was a teacher and I did breakf

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The Big Idea: Hospital Food Fight

Jul. 16, 2012

Two years ago, as a fundraiser, we created Hospital Food Fight. We invite the different medical systems in the area to donate money in exchange for their participation in the event, and we also personally reach out to chefs at the hospitals to encourage t

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Building breakfast

Sponsored content from our partner Jennie-O Turkey Store on Jul. 13, 2012

Jennie-O Turkey Bacon has the flavor and performance to boost your share of the dynamic breakfast daypart.

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Feeding campus cravings

Sponsored content from our partner Blue Bunny on Jul. 12, 2012

Today’s collegians flock to c-stores for snacks, treats and grab-and-go meals.

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Marketing Healthy

By Emily Rogan on Jul. 10, 2012

As colleges and universities across the country join the movement to offer healthier and more nutritious foods, foodservice directors are faced with the challenge of marketing those healthy foods to students and faculty members alike. FSD checked in with

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Healthy Performance

By Paul King on Jun. 26, 2012

Sometimes the concept of stealth health can be actualized in something as simple as a name change. That’s how Holy Cross Dining, at the College of the Holy Cross, solved the problem of how to convince students to eat more healthfully, when it introd

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