Top 100 Noncom Operators

Top 100 Noncom Operators

Fairfax County Public Schools

Fairfax County nutrition services has developed and fostered a successful partnership with schools and local food banks, one that helps provide leftovers from student lunches (both purchased on-premise and brought from home) to local food banks.

Top 100 Noncom Operators

Shelby County Schools

Shelby County Schools has been leaning into a seasonal approach that includes more soups, fresh greens and baked sweet potatoes in colder weather and extra salad variations and cut fruit options in August and September.

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.

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.

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