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Operations

Marketing strategies for sustainable takeout containers

While some New York City restaurants railed against a ban on polystyrene packaging, which was recently overturned, Columbia University was years ahead of the game.

Operations

How to plan for food allergies

The number of children with a food allergy rose 18 percent from 1997 to 2007, however, just 38 percent of K-12 operators had allergy training in the past year.

The foodservice provider’s new executive chef at Franklin College hopes to improve the cafeteria’s food quality by bringing experience with celebrity chefs and a European education to the job.

The overuse of fisheries has operators going beyond produce in their sustainability endeavors and turning their efforts toward lakes and oceans.

A pasta machine can make the dough rolling process more efficient and the end product more consistent than if rolling hors d'oeuvres or desserts by hand.

To make it easier to deliver meals to off-site charter schools and summer feeding locations, Pinellas County Schools uses colored tape to close the boxes.

The University of South Florida’s food pantry opened September 1 for students struggling to secure a meal.

Bowdoin College and Northwestern University top the Thrillist list of the best college and university dining halls in the country.

Monroe, chef at Maryland-based Washington College, won the foodservice provider’s 2015 Mid-Atlantic Region Chef of the Year award, part of its Be-A-Star program.

A new GrubHub study of college students’ takeout eating habits has ranked UB students first among the student bodies of 100 universities in making healthy food choices.

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