In 1895, George Selden set in motion the means for all future traffic jams when he received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. In honor of this occurrence, offer discounts on grab-and-go items.
Today is Book Lovers Day. Hold a book sale in the cafeteria, by inviting customers to bring in their unwanted books and selling them for $1, with all proceeds donated to a charity of your choosing.
Today is National Nachos Day. Develop a menu around these tasty chips, give them away free with every purchase of $5 or more, or set your own special.
PB&J Drive
Terri Richards Food and Nutrition Manager Pasco County Schools Land O’Lakes, Fla.
We’ve done a food drive for 11 years. This year I wanted to do something different so we did a peanut butter and jelly drive. Our students can relate to peanut butter and jelly, and most of them like it. About 80% of our students qualify for free or reduced lunches. If they need food over the weekend, a jar of peanut butter and jelly and bread can feed a family for days.
The University of California at Berkeley and the government office complex for the EPA show others how easy it is to make foodservice environmentally friendly. By "greening" their business, these two operations are striving to make a big impact on the environment.
Last fall at 412-bed Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, the dishroom was renovated as part of a three-part foodservice renovation. What was supposed to be a three-month renovation took seven. FSD talked with Valeria Langbein, director of nutrition services, to find out how the staff continued to serve its customers while keeping morale up.
According to the School Nutrition Association (SNA), more school districts are offering vegetarian options. The association says that new data reveals 64% of school nutrition programs offer a vegetarian option on a consistent basis, which is an increase of 42 percentage points from 2003, when 22% of districts reported offering vegetarian options consistently.
When I prepared to travel to Chile in February, I really didn’t know what to expect, other than the fact that I was going to escape the cold Northeastern winter for South American summer for a week.