the CAMBRO blog

MAY 2, 2024

In honor of National School Lunch Hero Day, we wanted to take the time to recognize some of the heroes our local reps interact with regularly and admire for their dedication and support. School foodservice employees do the very important job of feeding our kids each day, some of which wouldn’t get a meal otherwise.

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LTI, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Without the right equipment to prepare and cook food, staff members must either come up with creative solutions to improvise or serve the same few items over and over. From bringing students behind the line to serve meals to eliminating hot food service, administrators are scrambling to work around the lack of available kitchen staff.

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Food Management

AUGUST 23, 2023

The final rule impacts the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Special Milk Program, Summer Food Service Program, and Child and Adult Care Food Program.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Oregon S 545, Food Establishment Customer-Owned Containers Directs the state health authority to adopt rules allowing consumers to use their containers for refilling with food at a food establishment. Puerto Rico’s S 343 includes the measurement of food safety in the surveys carried out by the Bureau of Statistics.

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FoodHandler

JUNE 26, 2023

Many major recalls and several of the high-profile foodborne outbreaks that have occurred in the last few years occurred because the food was contaminated when it came into the foodservice operation. Outside of cooking it, nothing that the food service operation could have done made that spinach safe to eat.

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School Meals That Rock

MAY 6, 2021

Dan Gorman has been the Food Service Director for two Michigan districts, Montague Area Public Schools and Whitehall District Schools , for 21 years. Before COVID-19 school closures, their ADP was about 60 percent for breakfast and high 60s percentages for lunch.

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School Meals That Rock

APRIL 29, 2021

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allowed USDA, for the first time in over 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children. Cara: Can you describe what children may be given as a typical school lunch?

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