Operations

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Operations

Resourceful recovery

Foodservice operators are demonstrating that food waste recovery is a viable alternative to landfill dumping.

Operations

Demand for USDA Farm-to-School grant overpasses budget

More than 1,000 applications were received for the USDA’s Farm to School Grant Program, which would have totaled more than $78M in grant funding. The problem was, the USDA only had $5M to give.

Memphis, Tenn., was the site of the 13th annual MenuDirections conference. As you might expect, pork and barbecue played an important role in the event.

A few months back, we learned that a growing number of foodservice professionals are worried about the work ethic of their current employees.

Is saturated fat as bad as we thought? Will nutrition benchmarks change? Does the quality or quantity of protein we eat matter? These answers and more.

The schoolhouse is becoming the new cookhouse. In the U.S., 1 in 5 households with children are considered food insecure.

At Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa., an academic initiative called E.A.T. is encouraging students to be more mindful of what they eat.

Here’s an education guide to teach students, at all grade levels, how not to waste the food they take during school lunch.

The new No Hungry Kids act, currently before Congress, would address schools' complaints that some students need more calories than others.

A Sodexo supervisor says utensil theft is driving costs and hampering the dining atmosphere at his university.

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