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Posted on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

First Steps for Successful Procurement in your School Nutrition Program

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The School Nutrition Program (SNP) is a complex business operation. Schools across the nation strive to provide nutritious, tasty, quality meals to students while being cost effective. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is dedicated to ensuring successful procurement …

Posted on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

Sharing the Credit: Acknowledging Food Service Staff for Implementing Positive Changes

Lunchroom workers are the face of the school meals program. Accordingly, when interventions are successful in the lunchroom, it is important to give credit where credit is due. By recognizing your team’s efforts to improve student participation, increase selection and …

Posted on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

Decisions, Decisions: Behavioral Economics in the Lunchroom

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Cornell University’s Smarter Lunchrooms Movement works to apply principles from behavioral economics to school lunchroom environments. Because individuals, including students, are influenced by their surroundings, behavioral theory can be applied to encourage healthier behaviors even in school lunchrooms.

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Posted on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

Benefits of Working with Cooperative Extension

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Consider calling your local county or university based Cooperative Extension office for reliable, research based resources and strategies to assist you in your plans to create a healthy school environment. It could be your one-stop for working on improving healthy …

Posted on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

Benefits of a Multiple School Workgroup and How to Start One

laughing chefsFood Service Directors (FSD) can be lone rangers in their individual school districts. The autonomy can be satisfying but the work can sometimes be isolating. Many district food service directors have organized themselves at the city, county, regional or national …

Posted on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

Generating Buy-In From School Administration Officials

While most members of the school community are generally in favor of changes that can improve the school environment for students, one of the challenges that sometimes crops up when a Smarter Lunchroom Makeover is proposed is resistance from the …

Posted on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

The Frazer Eagle Café- Smarter Lunchroom Makeover Soars in Syracuse

It’s a bird, it’s a plane- no, it’s the Frazer Eagle Café!  –  the first of its kind  in the 28-building urban district- and its kids are soaring over the awesome new “café”. Colorful, healthy food and activity choice  “artwork” …

Posted on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

Testimonials from School Food Service Professionals: Creation of the Frazer Eagle Café

Annette Marchbanks: Assistant School Food Service Director- Syracuse City School District

“Students need to be exposed to a variety of healthful foods to encourage them to try them and help them to realize that they like them. Hopefully, this will …

Posted on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

Increase the Number of Students that Select Reimbursable Meals

During a busy lunch period, time is students’ most valuable commodity and they will often grab a snack or skip lunch altogether rather than wait in a long line for a full meal, even when they are hungry!  Worse, over …

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This work is supported in part by New Technologies for Agriculture Extension grant no. 2020-41595-30123 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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