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Child nutrition directors use USDA Foods to create budget-friendly, from-scratch items

 Dec. 19, 2011

Cooking from scratch is one of the big trends in school foodservice. With budgets slashed and prices rising, producing items in house can be a fiscal challenge. Some child nutrition directors say taki...

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Working with manufacturers

 By Paul King on Dec. 16, 2011

For more than 20 years, branding has been a strong element of the foodservice landscape. For a period in the 1990s, restaurant brands looked to be the future of non-commercial foodservice, so much so ...

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Partnerships

By Paul King on Dec. 16, 2011

In my tenure here at FoodService Director, I have had the opportunity to attend two educational programs that were either staged by or sponsored by food manufacturers. The first was the well-known Tyson University, and the second was the Chef Enrichment and Innovation Program, held at The Culinary Institute of America and sponsored by Hormel Foods.

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District hopes new program will teach healthy eating habits

Dec. 15, 2011

Dec. 15—Smith Elementary School in the New Britain School District in Connecticut has launched Build Your Plate, a program to familiarize students with healthy foods, with the hope that those eating h...

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Virginia Tech Dining Services names Ted Faulkner director

Dec. 14, 2011

Dec. 14—Ted Faulkner has been named director of Dining Services at 30,000-student Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va. Faulkner had been senior associate director for Dining Services since Feb...

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20 years of FSD’s Compensation Study

Dec. 13, 2011

Twenty years ago, FoodService Director launched its first Compensation Study, a snapshot of salaries for operators in various non-commercial segments. This year, in addition to the current survey, FSD makes a comparison between compensation today and what it was in 1991.

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Question of the month

By Paul King on Dec. 12, 2011

Congress’s recent move to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture from implementing some rules designed to make school meals healthier has generated a lot of comment in and around the foodservice industry.

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Best friends

By Paul King on Dec. 07, 2011

Next month’s issue of FoodService Director will feature “The Best,” a reprise of our popular cover story from February 2011. In it we will share readers’ comments on “the best” on a variety of topics.

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UMass, Seton Hill honored by Real Food Challenge

Dec. 02, 2011

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Seton Hill University, Greensburg, Pa., are among the winners of the 2011 Real Food Awards, sponsored by the Real Food Challenge. The UMass Amherst Perma...

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Study shows Calif. children's hospitals largely fail to provide healthy items

Dec. 01, 2011

Dec. 1—Only 7% of entrées served in California children’s hospitals can be classified as healthy, according to a study published in Academic Pediatrics. The research was conducted by UCLA and the Ran...

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