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What Influences Kids To Eat School Lunch? Fresh. Fun. Fast. Familiar.
We sat down with Founder and President of Health-e Pro, Meg Chesley, to discuss some of her time as a Food Service Director. What helps create an environment where kids wants to eat their school lunch? Our conversation covered the four elements she found are essential...
Q&A with Meg Chesley on Scratch Cooking and Quick-Scratch Cooking in Schools
We sat down with Founder and President of Health-e Pro, Meg Chesley, to discuss some of her time as a Food Service Director. Our conversation covered scratch cooking and quick-scratch cooking and ways districts could incorporate each for their program. If you’re...
Health-e Giving Launched: How We Can Make a Difference, Together
One of videos we’re asked to watch when we start at Health-e Pro is Simon Sinek’s “Start With Why.” Getting to the why is vitally important: why do we do what we do as a company? How does that set us apart? Once you identify the why, the how, what, and when, naturally...
What does “USDA approved” mean for menu planning software?
USDA approved menu planning software has become a hot topic among Food Service Directors. New standards and targets are implemented while some are relaxed or temporarily waived. It can be difficult to keep them all straight and maintain consistent compliance in...
Earth Day: Going Paperless in School Nutrition
How are you celebrating Earth Day in your school? Or in your school cafeteria? In your district’s Nutrition Department? In preparing for Earth Day, we found a couple fascinating statistics related to paper: The U.S. paper disposal rate has not gone down appreciably...
Creative Breakfast Recipes From Our Customers
We have so many great customers and wanted to share a few of our favorite breakfast recipes we received from them in our contest two weeks ago. Reviewing these made us hungry! We learned the importance of Breakfast from our previous blog post, What is National School...
Procurement and Bids: A Q&A with Nadine Doetterl, SNS
Nadine currently works with 1FS Schools, providing in-depth product information and bid collaboration software to school co-ops, districts and directors across the country. She is also a consultant for companies that want to succeed in the K-12 segment along with...
Is Your School’s Website in ADA Compliance?
Have you been hearing more about ADA compliance lately? Some states have strict rules that are being enforced regarding ADA compliance. In order to make sure you and your district are ADA compliant, we want to run through a quick primer to help. ADA (Americans with...
What is National School Breakfast Week?
National School Breakfast Week, referred to as NSBW, promotes the importance of healthy choices for breakfast by getting parents and students involved. Through social media, newsletters and various other channels, parents are encouraged to learn more about their local...
Why does school menu planning require good data?
When you think of school menu planning, you think of food: pizza, chicken fingers, vegetables, salads. How often do you think of data when you think of school menu planning? Probably not as much. Data is absolutely vital to running a strong, seamless foodservice...