What is the Purpose of a Banana?:
By Carlton Green, Ph.D. Lessismore Publishing, 2005, $15.00 Carlton Green has managed foodservice from the trenches for over 30 years, both literally...
The Art of Just-in-Time (or is it science?)
by Ann Friedland A cook-your-own stir fry station at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst saves on labor while adding excitement to the line up....
An Evolving Change of Plans
Students line up at the Souper Deli, in Purdue University's Earhart Dining Court, one of a series of new board dining venues recently opened by the school....
Going Green
By John Lawn Top, Cal Dining's management team: Assistant Director Mike Laux; Executive Chef/Assistant Director Chuck Davies; Marketing Coordinator Kim...
Raise your E.I. to succeed, SFM Women's Council told
DEALING WITH CORPORATE CULTURE. Above: members of SFM's Women's Council listen to Loret Carbone, a former executive of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises,...
Make Your Own Luck:
By Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson Portfolio 2005, $23.95 (hardcover), 262 pp. How lucky do you feel? It's a question posed most famously by Clint...
Let the True Cost of Energy Drive Strategy
When you step back and look at the big picture of our national energy consumption, it's a gluttonous one. Last month, I offered the opinion that the price...
Subsidized...but not Compromised
REAL VALUE MEALS. Executive Chef Byron Newman with some of the lunch entrees prepared for employees at company headquarters. Customers have a choice of...
The Facts of Energy Life
John Lawn Editor-in-Chief National polls published earlier this month show that 54 percent of the country disapproves of the way President Bush is handling...
Making the Invisible Visible
The book was recommended to me so long ago that I forget the operator who first suggested it. Now, after having read it, I really regret not having done...
Fruitful Endings
Peach Dessert Ravioli Blast from the past At Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, TN, Chef Armand Celentano menus both purchased and homemade...
UNH Dining Rules... All Day Long!
Vital Stats Name: University of New Hampshire Hospitality Services Location: Durham, NH Enrollment: 13,000 Resident Students: 4,500 Students on Meal Plans:...
Integrating Your Marketing Plan
In the past several issues, we have discussed the modern concept of marketing, some of the ways it can fit into the strategy of a noncommercial foodservice...
Price: The Market's Way of Measuring Value
What's a good lunch in your caf worth? For too many noncommercial operators, the answer to that question has been a disappointing $3.50 or so for a seemingly...
The GPOs Where do they go from here?
Want to know one question about the GPOs Group Purchasing Organizations that no one can really answer? Try asking how many of them are actually out there!...
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