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Equipment & Technology
Supply Chain Challenges? Let’s Leverage Entitlement Dollars!
This interactive session will explain the importance of leveraging entitlement dollars to conquer supply chain issues and enhance your menus.
Solving School Nutrition Challenges Through Synergies with Your High School’s Business Department
What if high school students are your solution to staffing, meal participation and funding problems? Discover why leveraging business students creates a “win-win” opportunity for students and staff.
Heavy Metal: Buying Foodservice Equipment 101
Presenters will share their findings, helpful hints and tricks of the trades for purchasing foodservice equipment, as identified during the current project of researching and updating the Institute of Child Nutrition’s equipment procurement manual.
Building Momentum for Free School Meals for All
Hear how school nutrition staff and SNA state chapters have been leaders in “Healthy School Meals for All” campaigns and identify ways to get involved.
Guac and Roll! Let’s Create Instagram Reels!
Discover how Instagram Reels will bring your program to life, engage students and put your program at the top of your followers’ news feed and easily receive hundreds of views.
Using the Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Program to Boost Nutrition in Your District
Discover why the Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Program (FFVP) is a valuable program that increases students’ awareness of fresh produce and can be an exciting low-pressure way to expose students to new foods.
Culinary Development Training to Motivate Food Service Professionals
Learn how to develop a strategic plan for your district to engage in a more technical speed scratch or scratch service model—and how the elevation of your employees’ skill level will increase critical thinking, basic culinary skills and time management.
Reduce Sodium and Minimize Labor with Speed-Scratch Food Production
This education session provide information on the benefits of speed-scratch cooking and how its food production can reduce sodium in recipes and in school menus.
Turn Your Planning Spreadsheet into a Digital Menu with Existing Tools
With a couple of scripts, you can turn your menu planning spreadsheet into a live digital menu on websites and in cafeterias! Join this session to learn how.
The Art of Inclusion: Making Menus More Inclusive for Special Diet Populations
In this session, you’ll be introduced to the strategies that IDEA Public Schools (TX), uses when designing menus to be more inclusive to their Special Diet population.