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People

What is the best way to fire an employee?

 Oct. 15, 2015

How do you go about firing someone without making it harder than it needs to be? Advice Squad says there are two ways: a handbook or disciplinary process.

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How to speed ripening with plastic wrap

 Oct. 15, 2015

At Pennsylvania-based health-insurance provider Highmark Pittsburgh, staff use plastic wrap to cover and keep tables sanitized during food prep.

Menu

Facing off against fast-casual catering

By Marygrace Taylor on Oct. 15, 2015

Have-it-your-way menus and relaxed, help-yourself experiences at fast-casual restaurants are changing customers’ expectations for catering in a big way.

Menu

How to incorporate lentils into fall dishes

By Alaina Lancaster on Oct. 15, 2015

Although lentils are available year-round, there’s something about these dried legumes that pairs perfectly with earthier fall dishes. See recipes here.

Menu

How to make a healthier minestrone soup

By Patricia Cobe on Oct. 15, 2015

To give customers and patients a healthier, lower-sodium minestrone soup, Kathleen Nielsen of McKay-Dee Hospital “cleaned up” a speed-scratch version.

Design

Danny Meyer opens restaurant on hospital roof

By Kelsey Squire on Oct. 15, 2015

With real estate tough to come by, restaurants and bars are popping up in some nontraditional places. One of the newest is Danny Meyer's GreenRiver.

Operations

How to use food pictures as a social media marketing tool

By Alaina Lancaster on Oct. 13, 2015

Hubspot, a software marketing company, reports Facebook posts featuring images garner 53 percent more “likes” and twice as many comments as text-only items.

Operations

Kansas’ hospitals aim to serve better food

By FSD Staff on Oct. 08, 2015

Seventy-seven of Kansas’s hospitals have pledged to review their food and beverage policies as part of the Healthy Kansas Initiative, which aims to serve better, healthier foods to patients, staff and visitors.

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Late-night food truck

Oct. 05, 2015

JPS Health Network recently initiated a schedule of on-site food trucks for the night shift to enhance dining options. They run between midnight and 2 a.m.

Operations

Living in a semi-sustainable world

By Dana Moran on Oct. 02, 2015

Sense and Sustainability is, perhaps, an odd title for this blog. I’ve never been much of a Jane Austen reader. But it encapsulates what I’ll be writing.

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