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Cambro’s School Lunch Heroes

the CAMBRO blog

In honor of National School Lunch Hero Day, we wanted to take the time to recognize some of the heroes our local reps interact with regularly and admire for their dedication and support. School foodservice employees do the very important job of feeding our kids each day, some of which wouldn’t get a meal otherwise.

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Fueling Success: Common Problems and Solutions in School Lunches

LTI, Inc.

Without the right equipment to prepare and cook food, staff members must either come up with creative solutions to improvise or serve the same few items over and over. From bringing students behind the line to serve meals to eliminating hot food service, administrators are scrambling to work around the lack of available kitchen staff.

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USDA FNS publishes final rule on child nutrition program integrity

Food Management

The final rule impacts the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Special Milk Program, Summer Food Service Program, and Child and Adult Care Food Program.

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Are schools the healthiest places to eat in America?

School Meals That Rock

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allowed USDA, for the first time in over 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children. Cara: Can you describe what children may be given as a typical school lunch?

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2023 Update on state food safety legislation

Food Safety News

Oregon S 545, Food Establishment Customer-Owned Containers Directs the state health authority to adopt rules allowing consumers to use their containers for refilling with food at a food establishment. Puerto Rico’s S 343 includes the measurement of food safety in the surveys carried out by the Bureau of Statistics.

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Dan Gorman and his dedicated team in a year of COVID-19!

School Meals That Rock

Dan Gorman has been the Food Service Director for two Michigan districts, Montague Area Public Schools and Whitehall District Schools , for 21 years. Before COVID-19 school closures, their ADP was about 60 percent for breakfast and high 60s percentages for lunch.

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Are Grades for Foodservice Inspections a Good Idea?

FoodHandler

Many major recalls and several of the high-profile foodborne outbreaks that have occurred in the last few years occurred because the food was contaminated when it came into the foodservice operation. Outside of cooking it, nothing that the food service operation could have done made that spinach safe to eat.