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Compass Group launches Balance, a destination wellness Web site

 Jan. 27, 2011

Jan 27—Compass Group recently launched its new Web site, Balance, a customer-focused site that will provide wellness and nutrition information for customers in more than 1,000 Compass Group accounts a...

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Industry agreement promises to increase healthy options for school meals

Jan. 24, 2011

JAN. 24—A new multi-industry voluntary agreement was announced Friday by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. The agreement brings together food manufacturers, group purchasing organizations and t...

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WHO's kidding whom?

By Paul King on Jan. 24, 2011

The World Health Organization, product of the dysfunction United Nations, announced last week that its members will discuss ways to reduce the amount of junk food marketing aimed at children around the world. The discussion is scheduled to take place during the U.N. General Assembly meeting this coming September.

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World of Education

Jan. 20, 2011

Rafi Taherian, executive director of Yale Dining at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., was born in Iran, was educated in Italy and cut his teeth in professional foodservice in California. He spoke...

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2010 Compensation Study

Jan. 20, 2011

Average salaries grew in 2009, but women had a higher percentage of salary change during the past year, according to FSD's 2010 Compensation Study.

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Aramark brings Cooking Light magazine to Business Dining

Jan. 17, 2011

Jan. 17—Aramark Business Dining is implementing recipes from Cooking Light magazine in its workplace dining locations across the nation. The exclusive Aramark promotion began with the New Year and th...

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Focus on: Frozen Fruit

Jan. 07, 2011

When it's the middle of winter in North America, fresh, local, seasonal fruits are scarce. Imports from the Southern Hemisphere can fill in some gaps, as can the ever-expanding selection of frozen f...

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Sides Move Center

Jan. 07, 2011

Several culinary trends have converged to push pasta and rice out of the sidelines and into the limelight. For one, there’s the explosion of Asian, Latin and Mediterranean cuisines; rice and/or nood...

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The Cutting Edge

Jan. 07, 2011

They're one simple rule when buying knives for your kitchen: The right knife for the right job. It may sound logical enough, but grabbing any old knife that’s nearby to do a job can lead to lost p...

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Happy New Year

By Paul King on Jan. 03, 2011

After spending a much-needed week off from work—during which time I still managed to log in a couple of hours of work each day—I returned to our lower Manhattan offices to begin the full-court press to wrap up all the details on our ninth MenuDirections conference, which will take place Feb. 27-March 1 in New Orleans.

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