by Tashana Thompson | Feb 28, 2017 | blog, Sherri's Tips of the Trade
To help prevent students from having to go back into the serving area to choose additional meal items, ensure your employees serving on the lines, understand the new meal pattern requirements. This holds up the line and causes additional confusion when students need...
by Tashana Thompson | Feb 23, 2017 | blog, Industry News
The concrete courtyard at Boca Raton Community High stretches the length of a football field. When the bell rings for lunch, a flurry of students pack it from every direction. Almost 3,400 students go to school here. Students say the place is so populated they can go...
by Tashana Thompson | Jan 31, 2017 | blog, Industry News
PEARISBURG (WSLS 10) -A new breakfast program aimed at making sure no child goes hungry launched this month in Giles County. Thanks to a grant funding from No Kid Hungry Virginia, Giles County Public Schools will offer a second breakfast period called fast break. In...
by Tashana Thompson | Jan 31, 2017 | blog, Sherri's Tips of the Trade
Like most of you, I receive SNA SmartBrief every day and in these articles are all sorts of suggestions and success stories. However, one thing I have learned in all my years in school foodservice is that one fix does not fit all districts. While one district...
by Tashana Thompson | Jan 1, 2017 | blog, Industry News
By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM – New Hampshire Sunday News DURHAM — When Alana Davidson’s research revealed that 25 percent of her fellow students at the University of New Hampshire had experienced hunger, she was shocked. She decided to do something about it. Thanks to...
by Tashana Thompson | Dec 30, 2016 | blog, Industry News
By Dennis Wyatt A typical Manteca Unified School District student generates roughly 1.75 ounces of food waste a day when they are done with lunch. Multiply that by 24,000 students, and it comes to 1.06 tons on any given school day. While that sounds like a staggering...