Creating collaborative relationships with community partners is a key to success for any foodservice operation. Hear about real-world experiences of successful collaborations—with vendors, community organizations and students.
Learn how to identify lower-sodium foods, communicate and collaborate with distributors to procure lower-sodium food products and recognize how to utilize fresh local foods, as well as the USDA Foods and DoD Fresh Programs, to lower the sodium content of your menus.
This powerful education session, taught by one of America’s most successful public speaking coaches, will help you prepare, develop and deliver effective presentations in a variety of situations.
Find out how to creatively recruit, train and develop your staff so that they want to stay for years to come and learn how to recognize leadership potential in all of your staff members so that you can develop them into your future leaders.
Learn about the latest regulatory developments in child nutrition programs, as well as USDA Foods and other initiatives.
Presenters share proactive strategies to prevent and manage unpaid meal charges. including a reminder of the local charge policy requirement, available resources from USDA and best practices managing unpaid meal charges at the local level.
Get the facts about food allergies and discover new ways to improve how you handle food allergies and keep kids safe in your cafeteria.
Discover why school gardens are becoming increasingly important in districts across the country and how educating students through school gardens can impact their minds, bodies and the world around them.
Gain a better understanding of USDA Foods entitlement with an overview of topics such as entitlement calculation, planned assistance level and state and school food authority roles and responsibilities including management of inventories and practices such as “sweeps.”
Learn how an effective emergency preparedness plan is necessary and will ready the program to ensure the safe storage, production and service of food during uncertain situations, and explore how to develop your own plan and learn from other experts.