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 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...
by Tashana Thompson | Dec 7, 2016 | blog, Industry News
When Cyndi Talbott began work 17 years ago as cafeteria manager at a public school for the disabled, there were three puree combinations on the menu for students who couldn’t chew or swallow. Now there are 50. Talbott could feed Royal Palm School’s 357...
by Tashana Thompson | Oct 27, 2016 | blog, Industry News
And bad habits continue after high school for most, study shows By: Amy Norton, HealthDay Reporter Over 90 percent of U.S. high school students don’t get enough exercise to stay fit and healthy, and the pattern persists after they graduate, a new study finds....
by joline | Aug 9, 2016 | blog, Industry News
In preparing for this edition, I was considering addressing two additional new regulation processes, Free & Reduced Application Verification and the Administrative Review. However, after participating in a webinar for both subjects and started researching through...