Sentences with phrase «food directors facing»

School food services are tax exempt, so the only effect a sugar tax would have on them would be to impose downward pressure on sugar prices, which would make sugar more attractive to school food directors facing pressure to cut costs.

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Increases in food prices, erosion of Qatari fiscal balances and a rise in borrowing costs are real risks Qatar will continue to face if the situation is not settled amicably, according to M.R. Raghu, head of research at Kuwait Financial Center (Markaz) and managing director of Marmore Mena Intelligence.

«Hamdi knows what challenges these founders trying to get food companies off the ground face,» Chobani incubator director Jackie Miller told DairyReporter.

Iain Hawthorn, Global Relationship Director, Corporate Banking, HSBC Bank Plc, discusses the three key business areas food & drink companies should be investing in, as well as the biggest risks facing the industry.

This is not to say that we should throw up our hands in defeat and accept highly processed foods for our kids, but it's important to remember that even the most well - meaning food services director may be facing insurmountable hurdles in the effort to improve school meals.

That is to say, Lunch Money is a really great way for parents to get up to speed on how school lunch programs operate and areas where there may be clear room for improvement, but no parent should assume that just by reading Lunch Money he or she fully understands the challenges faced by their own food services director.

And if you're a layperson like me, I also recommend taking a look at the slides for this 2012 School Nutrition Association presentation by two food service directors, just to get a taste of the struggles districts face in handling this delicate issue and the costs they incur both in lost meal charges in trying to collect on delinquent accounts.

Suddenly faced with looming deficits, food service directors looked to a la carte foods as a lucrative revenue source to help keep their lunch programs afloat.

The subcommittee's chairman, GOP Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama, told Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that he is receiving complaints from schools and from the School Nutrition Association, which represents school food - service directors, that some schools are facing both a financial and logistical burden in implementing the new school - meals programs and are requesting a delay.

Try to put yourself in the shoes of a food service director or a school food caterer facing a population that's been weaned on these foods.

Liz Accles, executive director of Community Food Advocates, and leader of the Lunch 4 Learning campaign, said in a press release, «Hungry children face great disadvantages academically.

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete / U.S.A. (Director: George Tillman Jr., Screenwriter: Michael Starrbury)-- Separated from their mothers and facing a summer in the Brooklyn projects alone, two boys hide from police and forage for food, with only each other to trust.

With food and fuel prices increasing sharply, food and nutrition directors in school districts around the country are finding themselves facing some uncomfortable choices.

«First, to address the hiring challenge faced by small LEAs, those with 2,499 or fewer students, this rule would require relevant food service experience rather than school nutrition program experience for new directors.

The Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), recently proposed rule FNS 2017 - 0039 which addresses some of the challenges small districts face in hiring school nutrition director candidates.

«Students are the future of the profession, and it's our hope that this scholarship will help support them on their journey whether it's going into food animal medicine, research and academia, private practice or another area of veterinary medicine,» said Vanessa Mariani, Director of Academic and Professional Affairs, Zoetis U.S. «We're constantly looking to evolve the program to ensure it reflects the current status of the profession and supports the key issues facing students and young professionals.»

«Mongolia is facing enormous challenges including growing pressure on food security, traditional nomadic herding and water supplies as a result of the impacts of climate change,» said UN Under - Secretary - General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.