FoodService Director

APRIL 24, 2024

Here’s a look at the upcoming changes to the School Nutrition Standards.

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Food Management

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The year’s top K-12 stories tracked how school nutrition programs and providers tackled issues like labor shortages and product availability to keep kids fed with nutritious meals.

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LTI, Inc.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Uncategorized | February 17, 2025 LTI is committed to supporting school foodservice and is participating in the School Nutrition Foundation’s Equipment Grant again in 2025. Once awarded, the recipient will work directly with an LTI representative to determine what best suits their school districts needs.

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Food Management

JANUARY 22, 2025

K-12 operators and manufacturers met in Phoenix this week for The School Nutrition Associations first conference of the year to discuss how they could work together to tackle current challenges impacting the segment.

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Food Management

JULY 27, 2023

Five school nutrition professionals are being awarded between $20,000 and $100,000 of equipment grants for their school meal programs.

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FoodService Director

JANUARY 4, 2024

The USDA has teamed up with Action for Healthy Kids to launch the awards program which seeks to recognize school nutrition teams making strides in child nutrition.

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Food Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Also in this weeks K-12 legislative update: A federal whole milk bill clears a hurdle to becoming law, an Arkansas bill that would provide universal free school breakfast heads to the governor's desk, and school nutrition bills in Wyoming and Utah fail to pass.

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FoodService Director

MAY 3, 2024

The first Friday in May marks School Lunch Hero Day and districts across the country are celebrating school nutrition professionals.

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FoodService Director

AUGUST 1, 2024

Executive Director of Programs for the nonprofit Chef Ann Foundation Laura Smith shares her best practices for finding and applying for school nutrition grants.

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FoodService Director

JUNE 12, 2024

The report says that the changes will cost school nutrition programs an estimated additional 3 cents per meal on average.

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School Nutrition Nutrition 87

Food Safety Magazine

JULY 27, 2023

Department of Agriculture has announced new funding and education opportunities for school nutrition professionals through its Produce Safety University.

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FoodService Director

JANUARY 9, 2024

The organization also advocated for no additional restrictions to the USDA’s school nutrition standards and to raise federal meal reimbursements.

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School Nutrition Nutrition 88

FoodService Director

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A new study reveals that California school nutrition programs are experiencing vacancy rates that are three times higher than that of U.S. public school teachers.

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Food Management

MARCH 12, 2025

Foodservice directors shared some advice on how they successfully implemented breakfast in the classroom at their districts during the School Nutrition Associations Legislative Action Conference (LAC), which took place earlier this week in Washington D.C.

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FoodService Director

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The new standards, which will be announced by the USDA in April, could make it even harder for operators to find products that meet school nutrition requirements.

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Food Management

AUGUST 8, 2023

This and Waldo County General Hospital cafe offering local farm products to go are some recent stories you may have missed

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Food Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Also in this weeks K-12 legislative update: lawmakers take action on active school nutrition bills in several states.

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Food Management

JULY 20, 2023

This week on Food Management Awesome a-ha moments from SNA’s big annual school food conference ranked as the weeks to story. The School Nutrition Association hosted the nation’s leading minds in school nutrition at the Annual Nat

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Food Management

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This and California becoming the first state to enact USDA’s latest proposed school nutrition standards into law are some of the stories you may have missed recently.

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FoodService Director

MAY 1, 2024

The winners have been announced just ahead of School Lunch Hero Day.

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Food Management

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Also in this week’s K-12 legislative update: a federal bill would require school nutrition professionals to undergo allergy training and New Jersey lawmakers introduce a universal free school meals bill.

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FoodService Director

JANUARY 17, 2024

SNIC attendees met in Orlando earlier this week to discuss how they could tackle today’s challenges in K-12 foodservice and plan for the future.

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FoodService Director

JULY 11, 2023

Here’s a look at the latest legislative forecast from School Nutrition Association leaders.

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Food Management

JULY 13, 2023

Child nutrition director for Barbour County Schools in Philippi, W.V. will lead organization representing 50,000 school nutrition professional members nationwide for the next year.

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Food Management

JULY 26, 2023

The School Nutrition Association’s big summer show took place in Denver. Another one on the books! Here are some details you may not have seen.

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FoodService Director

APRIL 30, 2024

Also in this week’s K-12 legislative update: lawmakers in Maryland and Delaware take action on bills related to universal free meals.

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School Nutrition Association

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What’s keeping school nutrition as part of the school conversation and planning? School Community Partnerships! The partnership and working operations for success in our school foodservice departments depend on the people who work, operate, and plan together in the school.

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FoodService Director

MARCH 21, 2024

Make-Your-Own offers students a weekly themed lunch option that is built around customization.

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FoodService Director

JULY 30, 2024

Also in this week’s K-12 legislative update: Massachusetts and Delaware increase universal school meal access this fall.

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LTI, Inc.

JULY 24, 2023

LTI was pleased to be a part of the School Nutrition Association’s Annual National Conference (SNA ANC) in Denver, CO July 10-11, 2023. We believe in what they’re doing, and we’re able to be a trusted resource for school foodservice professionals. LTI looks forward to participating in next year’s conference in Boston.

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the CAMBRO blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

“In high schools, meal participation is really hard because these kids don’t even come alive until about 9 a.m. that’s a hard thing to do,” said Susan Nelson, Director of School Nutrition at Baldwin County Board of Education. and to force feed them at 7:30 a.m.—that’s

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FoodService Director

AUGUST 17, 2023

From dramatic jumps in participation to fewer free and reduced applications, K-12 operators in California and Maine share what they encountered during their first year of serving free meals for all.

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Chef Ann Foundation

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Agriculture updating the national school nutrition standards is a step in the right direction. Today’s announcement from the U.S.

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LTI, Inc.

JULY 17, 2024

Blog | July 17, 2024 LTI was pleased to be a part of the School Nutrition Association’s Annual National Conference (SNA ANC) in Boston July 15 and 16.

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FoodService Director

AUGUST 1, 2023

Also in this week’s K-12 legislative update: A new law in Maine will provide grant funding to foodservice programs, and lawmakers in Massachusetts pass a budget bill that would provide universal free meals.

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FoodService Director

AUGUST 27, 2024

Also in this week’s K-12 legislative update: Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo defends his decision to no longer provide universal free school meals to students in the state.

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LTI, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Projects | November 17, 2024 With the guidance of school nutrition director, Kokeeta Wilder, the district chose LTI to lead the cafeteria renovation within the oldest high school in the Fayette County public school system.

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