Paul King

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Paul King

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Operations

An all-natural buyer’s guide

Food vendors doing business with Overlake Hospital Medical Center (OHMC), in Seattle, know without ambiguity what products the hospital’s hospitality dining services department does and does not want.

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The silent epidemic

As the number of senior citizens—and their desire to remain at home—increases, foodservice programs such as Meals On Wheels increasingly struggle to remain viable.

On Sept. 15, members of two healthcare foodservice groups will get together for a one-day seminar that at least one person hopes will be the start of a beautiful relationship.

The FDA’s new rules on gluten-free foods went into effect this month. What will be the impact on your operations?

The battle over genetically modified foodstuffs is threatening to reach a boiling point.

Former White House Chef Roland Mesnier says what others say about you is more valuable than what you believe about yourself.

As someone who has been attending foodservice industry conferences for nearly 30 years, I know how difficult it is to come up with the next “big thing.” But at the recent National Leadership Conference of the Association of Nutrition and Foodservice Professionals (ANFP), held in Minneapolis, the conference planning committee offered a session that might be exactly that.

Food journalist Michael Pollan spoke of this, and more, at this month’s culinary conference at the University of Massachusetts.

A new model for hospitals is being created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its impact will be felt by patients, staff and visitors, even in foodservice.

Rich Daehn, corporate director of culinary services for Benedictine Health System (BHS), in Duluth, Minn., is definitely a think-outside-the-box kind of guy. How else would you describe a man who believed that long-term care foodservice directors could improve their operations by going to Disney World?

One of the sessions I attended at last month’s Association for Healthcare Foodservice (AHF) conference was on the use of nutrition apps in foodservice.

After a brief hiatus, Coston returned to her old job, where her role has grown.

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