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FoodManagement NEWSBriefs for April 27, 2009
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  FNS Undersecretary Named
  Compass, Agilysys in Loyalty Program Deal
  School Pilots Compostable Trays
  Big Apple Concessions Soar
  Duke Dining Faces Shortfall
  Grant Fosters University, School District Healthy Eating Partnership
  Sodexo Up in Fiscal Half
  Survey: Teens Have Eclectic Food Preferences
  Texas A&M Names Dining Head
  UCLA Intros Meatless Thursdays
  UMass to Go Trayless
  Wonka Tactic Spices University Event Prom
  NACUFS to Hold Pre-Conference Workshops

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FNS Undersecretary Named

Former Iowa State Human Services Director Kevin Concannon has been nominated to be USDA Undersecretary for Food and Nutrition Services ...more


Compass, Agilysys in Loyalty Program Deal

Compass Group has announced a partnership with the Agilysys, Inc., information technology and hospitality software solutions vendor for deploying Zipthru Rewards ...more


School Pilots Compostable Trays

Hand Middle School in Columbia, SC, is initiating a pilot project to compost its lunch trays rather than tossing them in a landfill or going to reusable trays ...more


Big Apple Concessions Soar

The two new ballparks in the New York City market generated record per caps (amount spent per person on food, beverage and merchandise) on their respective opening days ...more


Duke Dining Faces Shortfall

Duke University Dining Services faces a $2 million budget deficit run up since it signed its contract with Compass Group and its Bon Appetit Mgt. Co. subsidiary in 2006 ...more


Grant Fosters University, School District Healthy Eating Partnership

The Missouri Foundation for Health has awarded Saint Louis University a $248,000 "farm to school" grant to improve school lunches and teach business skills in the Maplewood Richmond Heights district ...more


Sodexo Up in Fiscal Half

Sodexo reported North American revenues of 3.1 billion euro in the first half of its 2009 fiscal year, an organic growth rate of 3.9% ...more


Survey: Teens Have Eclectic Food Preferences

A poll of school-aged students by the Y-Pulse, LLC, youth marketing research group supports the notion that youngsters are knowledgeable about and want more ethnic choices in school cafeterias ...more


Texas A&M Names Dining Head

Texas A&M University has named David Riddle executive director of its Department of Dining Services ...more


UCLA Intros Meatless Thursdays

UCLA Dining Services is introducing “meatless Thursdays” as part of a campaign to promote sustainability and healthier dining ...more


UMass to Go Trayless

University of Massachusetts students generate five to six ounces of food waste per dining commons visit ...more


Wonka Tactic Spices University Event Prom

Dining Services at Washington University in St. Louis are using an idea from the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to help celebrate the closing of the campus’s venerable Wohl Center student center ...more


NACUFS to Hold Pre-Conference Workshops

NACUFS will be holding a pair of pre-conference workshops on The Green Kitchen and Campus C-Stores in Milwaukee July 7-8 ...more


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