Top 100 Noncom Operators

Top 100 Noncom Operators

School District of Philadelphia

The School District of Philadelphia’s food and nutrition program touts its Eating Locally in Philly Schools initiative, through which it partners with 11 local farms to procure produce; the district served more than 331,000 pounds of local produce during the 2018-19 school year.

Top 100 Noncom Operators

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

Serving 40,000 breakfasts, 94,000 lunches and 5,000 after-school snacks daily, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools added several items for the 2019-2020 school year, including banana bread and fresh melon served at breakfast and spinach side salads and pork street tacos for lunch.

With its green-centered strategy, Googleplex features organic gardens where it grows fresh vegetables used in campus restaurants.

As of late 2019, developer Chris Foley was charting a course for an ambitious food hall at 1355 Market St., a location more commonly known as the Twitter building, with vendors known for specialties such as upscale ramen and Nashville-style hot chicken.

Cisco is known for various signature items across its eclectic eateries.

This group of operations is making a mark in five different segments—hospitals, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, senior living communities and business and industry sites—when it comes to food and beverage sales.

Sustainability is a major theme among these school operations, as many are implementing farm-to-school initiatives, menuing a greater variety of plant-based options and seeking to reduce food waste. 

The restaurant Willmott’s Ghost opened in March 2019 inside The Spheres, Amazon’s corporate headquarters.

More than 400 CPS schools have activated a school garden and have become eligible to complete the Eat What You Grow program, a food safety initiative that puts produce grown in school gardens in the classroom and school dining centers.

After moving into its new headquarters in Chicago’s West Loop in 2018, McDonald’s unveiled a 6,000-square-foot restaurant on the ground floor where employees and guests can try a variety of McDonald’s international menu items from India, Australia, Canada, Germany and Hong Kong.

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