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Identify Your Next Marketing Move

Attracting and retaining loyal cafeteria customers is a year-round project. The captive audience concept is a myth. Yes, school lunch periods are short, the cafeteria is close and the competition…

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Fear Not the Trolls!

See social media through a new lens, and put it to work for your school meals program.  You’re not using social media to market your school nutrition program?! Why not?…

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Let’s TOK About School Nutrition

Learn why and how to tap into TikTok for next-level social media marketing. Unless you’ve been completely unplugged for the past few years (and in that case, more power to…

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SNA Members at SNA's 2022 Annual National Conference

Meet You at the TOP

School nutrition professionals prepare to gather in Denver to “Reach Higher” at #ANC23, connecting, learning and growing toward new heights—together. Sometimes the school nutrition business seems like a never-ending hike…

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Scrumptious Scraps?

Sustainability—the practice of using natural resources responsibly today, so they are available for future generations—is a topic on everybody’s mind. It’s more than “conserving” our resources by using less of…

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Are LTOs a GO in Your Cafeteria?

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Plan, Don’t Ban

It’s a scenario that nobody wants to even contemplate, never mind experience: A school, working with the best of intentions, implements a ban prohibiting foods that contain peanuts, one of…

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Let Your Imagination Take Flight!

Everyone is creative—a little practice will help build your skills and confidence. You might be a whiz at programming the combi oven to cook hamburgers to perfection, or perhaps you…

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Shannon Ebron posing with her book "Check-in & Color - A coloring book & gratitude journal for school nutrition professionals"

From “What if?” to “WOW!”

The inspiring story of how one woman’s fearless foray into self-publishing led to a pay-it-forward chain of restorative creativity. “I really wanted to write a children’s book,” recounts Shannon Ebron,…

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"FAME Awards"

Imagi-FAME-tion in Action

Following the path from imagination to innovation—reflections from the 2023 FAME winners. There’s no such thing as a cookie-cutter approach to running a school meals operation. Every district has distinctive…

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