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Scratch Cooking: Using Proper Culinary Techniques to Maximize Labor and Prepare Quality Meals
Discover innovative ways to develop and execute scratch and speed-scratch recipes and learn the importance of a knowledgeable team working together in order to prepare dishes from scratch.
Utilizing USDA Foods to Develop Culturally Relevant Recipes
Discover how to incorporate USDA Foods into recipes that support the cultural needs of your students and identify methods to solicit culturally relevant recipes for your programs.
But Will It Fit Through the Door?
Learn from experienced professionals how to properly plan for and purchase the right equipment for your program. From single equipment purchases to large projects, learn the tools to make sure your equipment fits!
Blood, SWOT and Tears – Leveraging your Community Partnerships to Achieve Your Biggest Dreams for Your Program
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.
Procuring Lower-Sodium Foods for School Meals
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.
Say It Like It Matters, When It Matters
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.
Recruiting, Retention and Building your Bench with Professional Development
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.
USDA Update, ANC 2023
Learn about the latest regulatory developments in child nutrition programs, as well as USDA Foods and other initiatives.
Unpaid Meals: Proactive Strategies to Prevent School Lunch Debt
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.
Food Allergies: Ask and Share Session
Get the facts about food allergies and discover new ways to improve how you handle food allergies and keep kids safe in your cafeteria.