Sentences with phrase «food service departments»

• Trained and managed all accounting clerks and maintained all daily financial oversight for 20 production and 3 food service departments.

Increasingly, their food service departments are collaborating with local and celebrity chefs to prepare special menus, educators are presenting vistors with food tours and healthy cooking demonstrations, and artists are teaching youth how to grow food and eat well.

As I know you are aware, all Food Service departments operate as enterprise funds which means they MUST be in the black at the end of the fiscal year.

I also agree that food service departments shouldn't always be lumped in with vending machines and competitive junk food, but sometimes that connection is warranted.

Reducing plate waste — the amount of food discarded by students — is an important goal for school food service departments within their ultimate mission: to support children's health and academic success by ensuring that they are well - nourished.

School Food Service Departments (SFSD) have been regulated by the USDA, using the Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Americans (DGHA) published every 5 years.

Personnel is the largest expense in food service departments and historically food service departments are populated with the lowest paid employees in the district.

Fiscal accountability in food service departments is imperative given the challenge of operating in a regulated environment, and often with limited revenue, outdated facilities, and high personnel costs.

I'm not sure a lot of food service departments would be that fortunate!

I'm not in any way, shape or form saying that we need or want to bend to what students want (even though for quite a few years food service departments were instructed by administration to see the student as a customer & please them, so as to be self supporting) but it is a fine line to walk.

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February 28, 2012 (Tuesday): Peer2Peer Connect Q & A Session on How to Improve the Online Presence of Your CN Department — School Nutrition Foundation partners with Nutrislice for this free, 60 - minute Peer2Peer call, where we will discuss how food service departments can optimize information they present online, including menus, nutrition information, and payment options.

The economy has had a huge impact on many school food service departments — this will be a major challenge for me and many of my colleagues.

Julie has extensive experience in food service operations and financial analyses of hospital food service departments.

Salad bars are a program enhancement that many food service departments are tackling.

«I worked my way into the food service department and have been here ever since, becoming the director, then vice president and a few years ago was promoted to senior vice president — it's been a wonderful and exciting journey!»

«We strive to serve the university community through excellence in facility and program management, promoting customer satisfaction while ensuring financial viability,» the Housing and Food Services department explains.

And, having now worked closely with Houston ISD's Food Services department for the last four years, I feel only sympathy for school districts trying to balance their budgets while meeting the HHFKA's healthier school food mandates, all in the face of insufficient funding and negative student reactions to the food.

Shirley and the rest of the Homedale Food Service department oversee three schools — an elementary, a middle, and a high school.

As you can guess from the foregoing description, Lunch Money is meant to be a highly practical resource for managers of school food services departments, and it is they, not lay readers, who are addressed directly by the author in this book.

I particularly agree that a food service department is not going to be able to create those improvements alone.

But perhaps anticipating these concerns, Adamick offers this disclaimer right at the outset of Lunch Money: «While not all of the tricks and tools presented here will apply to all school districts, every district should be able to identify at least one strategy to increase the revenue, or decrease the expenses, of its own school food services department.»

But as I noted in that same 2011 TLT post, this hadn't proven true in Houston ISD as of the last time I discussed this issue with our Food Services department.

On the field trip we toured Portland Public School District's central offices and central kitchen, Portland State University's food services department, and OSHU's (Portland Hospital) food and nutrition services all to see how they are adapting their menus, staffing, purchasing and more to include sustainable foods into their offerings.

The Chicago Public School food service department will try both the food - based and nutrient - based programs for what best fits its 600 lunch programs, says Jack Costello, food service director.

As for districts using cheese or pb & j sandwiches for alternate meals; you have to understand that the food service department still has to break even.

What it would do, if you have a self operated food service department, is probably cause some damage to the finances of your school district.

From what I've read, most districts require that their food services department be totally self - sufficient and not require any funding from the district.

Lunch Lessons offers a variety of services to assist school districts and their community partners in realizing their vision for school food service, including: educational programming through speaking engagements; workshops that address a variety of needs from fiscal to culinary training; focused analysis of various aspects of existing programs; as well as full assessments which analyze all aspects of the food service department and provide recommendations to assist in strategic planning and goal setting.

The partnership with Chef Nick Wallace, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and the Jackson Public Schools Food Service Department will connect culinary arts, nutrition education, and creativity to students, staff, families, and our community.

Parents were told to contact the district's food service department if they want an allergen - free meal for their child.

The Food Services Department also offered students a delicious chocolate brownie made from Shepherd's Grain flour.

In October, Riverview School District food services department in Duvall celebrated Taste Washington Day featuring foods grown and produced right in the Snoqualmie Valley.

While the program continues to generate a lot controversy in more affluent schools (lost class time, sanitation issues and concerns about the nutritional quality of the food), our Food Services department has said that in poorer schools the program has been enthusiastically welcomed by principals who are seeing increased attendance, reduced tardiness and fewer discipline problems.

Meals for Needy money is available to San Francisco, but the school district can elect to keep that money for other programs and not provide it to food service... BUSD elects to give that money to their food service department in support of healthy food.

Back then, my attitude toward the food services department could fairly be called «openly hostile.»

In my district, someone in my food services department described how kids who couldn't partake in a la carte were getting their photos taken by cell phone in the «uncool» subsidized meal line to shame them, and some of these kids would rather go hungry than be seen standing in that line.

In my district, Houston ISD, it's the Food Services department that is selling the bright blue slushies and the fried chip nachos and the Frito Pie on the a la carte line, and they work with the district to monitor vending machines to ensure that no competitive food is sold there that could undercut their profits in the cafeteria snack lines.

I know that mentioning funding and budget makes it sound like that is all I'm concerned about... it's not, but it does have to be one of the things we (the food service department) are concerned about.

I'm amazed and saddened by those who wish to make changes who would suggest that the food service department be left out of the discussion.

If this district is very affluent, then the Food Service department is not getting very much money in federal reimbursement.

If they are not, they the school district must give money from their General Fund to bring the Food Service department into the black.

If stickers end up where they shouldn't... yeah, well... let's just say that the food service department will not be in good graces.

I probably would check with my immediate supervisor first... which actually brings up another interesting aspect of working in the food service department... as the head cook in an individual building, I answer mostly to the food service director, but also answer to the building principal as well.

In 2010, John exposed the serving of expired food to Boston school children, which led to reform of the Boston Public Schools» food services department.

The Learning Academy of Santa Rosa contracts with the The Santa Rosa County School District food services department to provide students with quality school lunches.

Based on the number of slips, trips and falls within the food service department, the grant will be utilized to purchase comfortable, professional and slip resistant shoes to the entire staff.

The Food Services Department provides more than 7,300 breakfasts and 14,200 lunches in our buildings daily.

To ensure that the Food Service Department is aware of your child's particular dietary restrictions, such as allergies or diabetes, a parent must submit a doctor's note to the school nurse yearly.

Interact with clinical nutrition, food service department, patients, nursing, medical and volunteer staff, and visitors.