Sentences with phrase «lunch rooms»

From seating areas with comfortable living room — like lounge furniture to lunch rooms with booths and laptop ports, collaborative space is taking on a more casual look, says Chris Congdon, manager of corporate marketing at Steelcase in Grand Rapids, Mich..

This experience is not just limited to their lunchtimes within classes, but also in lunch rooms.

Many reception area terminals, library terminals, lunch rooms or complementary computers in board rooms would benefit from restricted access devices.

I think companies can look at social media as a distraction (negative - time drain) or a tool (positive - opportunity), just as they can with phones or the internet or lunch rooms and water coolers.

The building occupies a quiet side street surrounded by cosy lunch rooms and friendly restaurants, with a plethora of stores and bars also saturating the vicinity.

This ongoing character development starts in the classroom and continues on to hallways, lunch rooms, buses, and eventually to homes and neighborhoods.

Write poems on poster - size board, laminate them, and hang them in public places throughout the school: hallways, lunch rooms, playgrounds, libraries.

Most of our major properties have E E indoor education spaces or store / lunch rooms that education groups can use as learning bases for the day and nearly all have toilets, parking and plenty of space to let off steam.

Most of our major properties have indoor education spaces or store / lunch rooms that education groups can use as learning bases for the day and nearly all have toilets, parking and plenty of space to let off steam.

The idea of our children sitting in lunch rooms drinking powdered shakes is about as dystopian as continuing to feed them overly processed junk foods.

«Leaking» corpses of people killed by subway trains are often brought to employee lunch rooms and other break areas inside stations, disgusted union officials and sources told the NY Post.

Millions of dollars are at stake here — not to mention the larger issue of whether the enticement of rebates and discounts induces FSMCs to put more sugary, salty and highly processed food in our lunch rooms.

The idea that school lunch rooms need to look like 7 - Eleven is ludicrous.

TLT: From what I've read about you, it sounds like you're not a fan of removing less healthy food from lunch rooms.

Bettina Siegel said: Chartwells says the veggies grown in school gardens can't be served in school lunch rooms.

Chef Ann Cooper, aka «The Renegade Lunch Lady,» is partnering with Whole Foods to bring better food to our children's lunch rooms.

Her photographs of that food and her accompanying blog, Fed Up with Lunch, provided an eye - opening expose of the kinds of meals served to millions of American schoolchildren in lunch rooms around the country: mysterious, shrink - wrapped entrees, fried chicken patties, the ubiquitous square pizza and highly processed PBJ «sandwiches» that crumbled to the touch.

Note: Remember last week when I posted about the steamed bok choy served in Houston ISD lunch rooms — and the educational flier posted that day?

Now, the USDA buys the same stuff year after year,» according to Obester, turning the lunch rooms into «dumping grounds» for high - fat foods such as cheese, whole milk, butter, sausage and meat.

In fact, SNA's 2009 Operations Report found that of the more than 1,200 school districts surveyed, 96 percent now offer whole grain items in school lunch rooms.

As I've written about before on The Lunch Tray (see «Many a Slip Twixt Kitchen and School «-RRB-, districts face real challenges in ensuring that their school lunch rooms present meals in -LSB-...]

I also raised the possibility of a middle ground solution, already instituted by some school districts, of lowering the sugar content and removing objectionable ingredients from flavored milk before banning it altogether, to the extent many parents and nutritional experts still want to see it in school lunch rooms.

I did some investigating and was surprised to learn that during the very same month Jonathan Jewth died from choking, two other children (coincidentally also in New York state) were reported to have choked on food in school lunch rooms.

One thing I found interesting is that in Rome, NO outside food is allowed in school lunch rooms.

Clearly such foods are not offering the «highest level of nutrition» possible, but as long as they're sold in our lunch rooms, kids like the one above will make an entire meal out of them — to the detriment of their own health and their ability to learn effectively in the classroom.

Until that relationship is modified, processed junk will still find its way into many school lunch rooms.

Here, too, many lunch rooms have an electronic card system to protect privacy, but many schools can't afford it.

Whole grain options (the few that are available from vendors) cost five or ten additional cents per student, so you can understand why schools are not exactly itching to get more of these healthy foods into their lunch rooms.

Maggie and Megan: I certainly haven't seen all HISD schools in action (indeed, I've only been in a handful of lunch rooms, something I'd like to change) but I can say that HISD is currently implementing some «improved dining concepts», starting (at the behest of our superintendent) at the most impoverished schools.

To fight a growing trend in school lunch rooms to exclude flavored milk, it recently launched this media campaign.

As I've written about before on The Lunch Tray (see «Many a Slip Twixt Kitchen and School «-RRB-, districts face real challenges in ensuring that their school lunch rooms present meals in the manner in which they were intended to be served.

Many of us who've been in school lunch rooms have seen children take fruits and vegetables (even when they're not required to do so, since most schools use «offer versus serve»), yet still leave them untouched on their trays.

As a result, kids there are now eating entrees like grass - fed beef hot dogs on whole grain rolls, with the ultimate goal of bringing more scratch cooking, and fewer «carnival food» entrees, to their lunch rooms.

You even have free snacks in the lunch room and a game room to help them relax.

On the exclusion spectrum, you'll find everything from accidentally leaving someone off a calendar invite to purposefully avoiding an individual in the lunch room.

@Ken Freedom goes both ways, an employer is expected to pay an employee for work, give them lunch breaks and such as well as a clean environment, free conversation in the lunch room and access to a rest room and band aides, saftey standards and offer health care.

Now you tell me: what embarrassing thing happened to you in the lunch room?

When she finally left the lunch room I was sitting there waiting to take her home for the day.

or do I duck downstairs to the «meditation / quiet room» just outside the lunch room and make the call behind closed door?

On the K - State side of things, my lunch room supervisor at Bluemont Elementary in 1973 - 74 was Steve Grogan's girlfriend.

I just watched the wax episode during lunch and died in the lunch room.

But when an American child is hustled through the lunch room in 20 minutes, she barely has time to wolf down her (usually hand - held) entree off her styrofoam tray, let alone contemplate eating more challenging foods like fresh fruits and vegetables.

You can purchase your own copy of Lunch Money here and read more about Kate's work with Cook for America, an organization which teaches scratch - cooking skills to lunch room workers, here.

How to Make a Boat: Gather empty milk cartons from the lunch room.

My school has a very small eating area, so a «peanut zone» in the lunch room was not possible without risking cross-contamination exposure because of the severity of this particular child's reactions.

agree with Kass, schools need help from the community to make real food in the lunch room a reality for students.

Personally I don't think the choices children make in the lunch room until we start to change the environment and time they have to eat it.

But in terms of the tone used by the lunch room volunteers — I will say that my two kids are now old veterans of public elementary school lunch rooms and they've certainly endured their share of barking lunch room monitors.

Of course, the lunch room «Nazi» I mean helper was always screaming about it being too loud.

But might it not depend on the size of the total student population, the size of the lunch room, etc?