K - 12 Schools
St. Louis Schools Choose Chartwells/Thompson
St. Louis Public Schools has terminated its foodservice contract with Aramark and turned management of the district's food and nutrition program over...
Feds Expand K-12 Meal Subsidy
The government has announced a 4.3% annual increase in the federal reimbursement provided to school nutrition programs. However, the School Nutrition...
Making Nutrition an Animal Proposition
WINNER: WHITSONS CULINARY GROUP ENTRY: NUTRITION SAFARI THE BIG IDEA: Getting kids to eat their veggies and buy into the whole adult nutrition thing has...
Boosting Breakfast
WINNER: ARAMARK EDUCATION ENTRY: AMP-UP WITH BREAKFAST THE BIG IDEA: While every public and private school in the U.S. is eligible to get federal funds...
Bench Strength: Lone Star Stunner
Christina W. Smith MS, RD, LD was able to hone her love of food and desire to help people into a fulfilling career. As Nutrition Services Manager, Food...
Healthy Meals Drive Participation
The Escondido (CA) school district has found significantly higher participation rates in its high school cafeterias since implementing a healthier menu...
Excellent
The list of challenges facing foodservice directors in large school districts is epic: ballooning food and labor costs, inadequate subsidies chasing unfunded...
book review
By Susan Levine Princeton University Press 2008, 252 pp., $29.95 (hardcover) Warning: don't take this book to the beach, unless you are a wonk. It is not...
Group Membership Offered by SNA
In an effort to make it easier for school districts to budge memberships to the School Nutrition Association, the SNA has begun to offer a new type of...
2008 Silver Plate Winner - Patricia Farris
Director of School Food ServicesArchdiocese of New Orleans WHAT'S ON FARRIS'S PLATE? ANNUAL BUDGET: $16.8 million MEALS SERVED PER DAY: 27,000 EMPLOYEES:...
Taking School Lunch Concerns to Congress
Mary Ann McCann hiked up Capitol Hill on March 4, the third day of SNA's annual Legislative Action Conference (LAC), to carry her district's meal program...
Profiles in Healthy School Eating
Inspiration and practical ideas for school wellness are found in a collection of real-life stories gathered by the School Nutrition Association. Well...
Enemy at the Gates
More than a third of middle and high schools nationwide sit within a half-mile of a fast-food outlet or convenience store, says a University of Illinois...
New Chef in School
If you were a celebrated fine dining chef known for your work in some of Southern California's trendiest restaurants, and then as the culinary driver...
DC to Outsource School Meal Program
The District of Columbia Public Schools plans to outsource management of its foodservice operations. The District says it lost $9.5 million in 2006, and...
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