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How to handle custom menu challenges

 By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

Question:How are you handling your biggest challenges with customizable menu items?Answers from FSD's Culinary CouncilCustomizable menus provide our guests with flexibility and a sense of pampering, b...

People

Can you train employees to be nice?

 By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

When you’re interviewing someone to work in your operation, you need to look at behavioral traits. Those can be part of your criteria when you’re hiring.

Steal This Idea

Offer incentives for thinking green

Jan. 15, 2016

Eighty percent of Northwest Community Hospital's customers are our employees, so asking them to participate in the reusable-container program was easy.

Menu

Customization goes beyond the salad bar

By Patricia Cobe on Jan. 15, 2016

Stations focusing on salads, sandwiches and omelets—last decade’s customization models—have evolved into a much wider variety of DIY consumer options.

Design

Freshii taps techie diners for creative ideas

By Kelsey Squire on Jan. 15, 2016

Through its  Project campaign, Freshii is seeking ideas using call-to-action messages throughout the store from members of 1871 and entrepreneurs.

Operations

Sodexo caters to vegan community with new food station

By FSD Staff on Jan. 14, 2016

The Harmony station at Loyola Marymount University will rotate menu items weekly.

Operations

Student group petitions university to end Aramark contract

By FSD Staff on Jan. 13, 2016

The Fight for Just Food cites the vendor’s contracts with U.S. prisons as the reason why the University of Chicago should sever ties and self-operate instead.

Operations

Indiana University opens new library eatery

By FSD Staff on Jan. 11, 2016

The Bookmark[et] Eatery features five restaurants that emphasize local and international food as well as dairy-free and vegan options.

Steal This Idea

Use social media to introduce new concepts

Jan. 11, 2016

Each fall, the University of Oklahoma hosts a food-sampling event called Tasty Tweets to introduce freshmen to dining concepts.

Operations

Oregon State market now accepts food stamps

By Bianca N. Herron on Jan. 11, 2016

The new program is just one way to combat food insecurity on campus, officials say.

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