FoodService Director

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The district is hosting student contests, lunch with local dignitaries and more.

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Chef Ann Foundation

MAY 5, 2023

Join us in celebrating the hard work and dedication of school food professionals far and wide on National School Lunch Hero Day!

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

-grown fruits and vegetables to community organizations like schools, local food pantries, and youth organizations while prioritizing socially disadvantaged farmers and entities, regional food inequities, and local and regional food systems. With taxpayer funds, USDA annually spends $6 billion on U.S.-produced regional farms.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Economic Incentives to Supply Safe Chicken to the National School Lunch Program, ERR-202, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides subsidized and free meals to over 31 million qualified students across the United States each school day (USDA, FNS, 2013).

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 25, 2023

RPI is exclusive to restaurants (excluding non-essential information about school lunches, for example). Drawing on our extensive 25+ years of experience and the expertise of our in-house AI and ML team, we created a customized alternative to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Food Away From Home (FAFH) index.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 1, 2023

” Despite their efforts, the term has seen broader and broader use with no connection to Taco John’s, including on school lunch menus, at restaurants and bars around the country, and in The Lego Movie.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

coli O157:H7 from cookie dough, Peter Eisler, Elizabeth Weise, and others of USA Today for their reporting on school lunches, and Nick Grube of the Daily Triplicate for his three-part series on Mari Tardiff’s struggle to recover from the Campylobacter infection and ensuing Guillain-Barre Syndrome she got from drinking raw milk.

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School Meals That Rock

APRIL 30, 2021

As you know School Lunch Hero Day is next Friday, May 7, 2021. We have set a small goal of getting our TIPS for School Meals That Rock membership up to 17,000 by next Friday! We certainly know that it will be a long time before things feel 100% normal, but we have HOPE that we are on the road back. YOU are our HEROES!

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Healthy Schools Campaign

APRIL 24, 2023

At its May 2023 meeting, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Board of Education will consider a proposal for a new Local School Wellness Policy for Students.

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School Meals That Rock

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I n my opinion, the only things that we should be saying to school nutrition professionals this September are thank you and what can I do to help? School lunch ladies and food dudes are true heroes. Like your mom told you, if you cannot say kind things, please don’t say anything at all. Here’s why: 1.

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LTI, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2023

Short lunch periods and hundreds of hungry students descending on the cafeteria at once can create chaos. The resulting backup can leave students with only a few minutes to eat their lunch before the bell rings, leading many to skip lunch altogether. So, how can you make school lunch lines faster?

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Louisiana’s HR 17 requests that the state Department of Education conduct a study and submit a report to the legislature regarding school lunches. Louisiana HR 17, School & Foods Programs Requests the state Department of Education conduct a study and submit a report to the legislature relative to school lunches.

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FoodHandler

JUNE 26, 2023

As I noted before, these grades often provide a superficial snapshot of compliance at a specific point in time and in many jurisdictions, it will be a year before the business will have another inspection (unless you’re in a school foodservice, who should have two inspections per year if they are funded through the National School Lunch Program).

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A large outbreak with almost 200 cases in China was caused by poor hygiene at the producer and inadequate food storage at schools, according to a recent study. An outbreak of acute gastrointestinal illness occurred at two middle schools in a rural region of Chongqing in 2021. In May 2021, an outbreak was reported in the two schools.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

High levels of an additive in tortillas have been identified as the likely cause of a significant outbreak in Finland. The Finnish Food Authority (Ruokavirasto), National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL), and local agencies investigated the outbreak, which affected more than 800 people.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Officials in Finland remain stumped by a large outbreak linked to school meals. The Finnish Food Authority (Ruokavirasto), National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL), and local agencies are investigating the outbreak, which affected more than 800 people. The incident occurred in mid-August in Mikkeli, with mainly children falling sick.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 20, 2023

As the school year kicks off with a whirlwind of emotions and activities, the race to balance new routines and responsibilities often leads to moments of absentmindedness. Amidst the chaos, it’s easy to overlook a critical aspect: ensuring the safety of the meals your children carry to school.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 21, 2023

More than 600 people have fallen ill in a suspected food poisoning outbreak at several schools in a Finnish city. This past week, officials from the city of Mikkeli sent a questionnaire to parents of students and staff about symptoms that occurred during or after school meals on Aug.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 2, 2021

The restaurant categories hardest hit by closures are those that relied heavily on customers' regular day-to-day routines, such as shopping, working, or schooling. Lunch is an example of how the disruption in daily routines impacted this daypart.

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School Meals That Rock

MAY 8, 2023

Having spent the past 25+ years as an advocate, cheerleader and trainer for the best possible meals in schools, my commitment to healthy school food is long-standing and far-reaching. You may copy and paste any of my thoughts below into your comments. Go to [link] for details and to submit a comment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2020

." Along with keeping restaurants open and ready to serve, Subway Franchise Owners across the globe have stepped up in big ways in their local communities donating meals to those on the frontlines including healthcare workers and first responders, as well as donating meals to children who normally rely on school lunches.

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School Meals That Rock

MARCH 29, 2022

By Dayle Hayes MS, RD, and Jeanne Reilly, NDTR, SNS Sponsored National Peanut Board, Peanuts in Schools There are many reasons peanuts and peanut butter can benefit school nutrition programs. Here are four of the reasons we’re convinced that peanuts do belong in schools.

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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 21, 2021

Shannon C Solomon MS, SNS, been with the Aurora (Colorado) Public Schools Nutrition Services for 13 years. Pre-pandemic the district had 40,000 enrolled students – approximately 72 percent eligible for free/reduced meals – serving 26,000 lunches and 15,000 breakfasts on daily basis.

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School Meals That Rock

APRIL 26, 2021

Director Janis Campbell-Aikens, MBA, RDN, SNS, CD , and Coordinator Ben Atkinson, MS, RDN, CD, have worked together in Auburn, Washington, School District Child Nutrition Services for 2 years. The district has about 16,500 students with a pre-pandemic free/reduced rate of 52 percent and daily average of 5,000 breakfasts and 9,000 lunches.

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School Meals That Rock

APRIL 23, 2021

million lunches, 420,000 suppers and 680,000 snacks per year. Maria Eunice, MS, SNS, has been the Director of Alachua County Food & Nutrition Services , Gainesville, Florida, for 16 years. The district has 30,000 students with a free/reduced rate of about 50 percent. million breakfasts, 3.5

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

Since morning meal visits are habitual, recovery for this daypart will depend on consumers returning to workplaces and schools. Lunch traffic, which was down -4 percent this May compared to a year ago and -10 percent compared to two years ago, will depend on the return to offices and workplaces and more midday activities, like shopping.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The high school lunch experience is about to look a whole lot different. Aramark , which serves nearly 370 million meals annually to more than 2 million K-12 students across North America, today announced a new high school dining brand, called Rally Cafe , which will transform the traditional high school cafeteria.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Subway® Franchise Owner Todd Hicks is celebrating the ninth year that he and his team have been supporting school lunch programs in the Boise area, top photo. Local Subway® Day Program Celebrates Nearly a Decade.

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