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One On One With: How dining at the University of Rochester plans to approach the spring term

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5 things: USDA announces new Food & Nutrition Services undersecretary

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Nominations now open for Food Management’s Best Concepts awards program for 2021

Dec 23, 2020

Winners to be honored in July.

Best Concepts: Aramark’s automated QuickEats Close Convenience store offers frictionless, consumer-friendly shopping experience

Oct 19, 2020

QuickEats, debuting in an apartment complex but adaptable to multiple environments, is the kind of contactless...

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Best Concepts: Restaurant Associates’ Cook’s Corner highlights and celebrates the culinarians behind the food

Oct 13, 2020

The division of Compass Group developed Cook’s Corner as a way to put the spotlight on the men and women who are...

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Best Concepts: CentraState Health gave recovered coronavirus patients box full of meals

Oct 08, 2020

To assist them with recovery and to celebrate their being discharged, the hospital’s food service team created boxes of food and meals to send home with patients.

Best Concepts: Pizza Pick Up program made the best of an emergency situation for school nutrition program

Oct 05, 2020

The Houston County School System developed and rolled out a pizza pick-up initiative when the coronavirus pandemic hit last spring that not only made use of stock on hand but also benefitted and encouraged students, families and the community.

Best Concepts: Chartwells’ Mood Boost teaches the connection between how students feel and what they eat

Sep 29, 2020

With Mood Boost, Chartwells K12 lets kids see the way what they eat influences how they feel in a fun, engaging way.

Best Concepts: Morrison Healthcare leverages the nutritional power and menu adaptability of beets in Beet Root station concept

Sep 22, 2020

Part of Morrison Healthcare’s previous Best Concept Award winning plug-and-play rotating micro-concept program, Beet Root takes advantage of the various ways that beets can be used in recipes to offer a healthful, delicious menu for healthcare...

Best Concepts: Starship Technologies delivery robots bring meals to Bowling Green State University campus and larger community

Sep 17, 2020

Robots go off campus: Expanding on a new robot delivery project with Starship Technologies, BGSU Dining by Chartwells has found...

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Best Concepts: Crises turn into opportunities at Houston ISD

Sep 15, 2020

While transitioning back from contract to self-op status, Houston ISD Nutrition Services overcame a couple of unanticipated...

Food Management announces 2020 Best Concept Award winners

Aug 05, 2020

The Houston Independent School District Nutrition Services is named Best of Show alongside 7 category winners.

Best Management Company Concept: Bona Fide, Morrison Healthcare

Jul 30, 2019

Morrison designed Bonda Fide, its flexible cuisine concept based on bone broths, especially for healthcare environments where the nutrient-rich, easily digestible, tasty broths have particular application and appeal.

Best Convenience Retail Concept: Jasmine Market, Stony Brook University

Jul 30, 2019

Stony Brook goes out of its way to serve its large Asian student population with a specialty retail market that carries exotic Asian grocery items.

Take a photo tour of a Caribbean themed dining concept

Jul 30, 2019

Best Concepts winner Calypso offers authentic Caribbean dishes from five countries: Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Puerto Rico in the University at Albany’s Campus Center food court. For a full description of the concept, go here...

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