by Laura Thompson | Aug 22, 2018
As directors, you not only have to plan menus and supervise, you have to implement and maintain food safety. Food safety is highly monitored by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and an important part of your administrative review. On top of that,...
by Laura Thompson | Aug 6, 2018
We recently developed a new product that integrates with our Health-e Meal Planner product: My School Menu Boards-with the ability to publish within several minutes from your published, online menus. This new digital menu board software has a modern, user-friendly...
by Laura Thompson | Jul 24, 2018
When Health-e Pro’s Health-e Giving philanthropic initiative launched earlier this year, The Leader in Me was one of the charities selected to devote a portion of our money and time. The Leader in Me is an organization that inspired us. The organization works with...
by Laura Thompson | Jun 5, 2018
In today’s blog post, we talk school nutrition software with Kristen Lindorf, MS, RDN, who has spent her career as a consulting dietitian. Kristen has worked with everyone from state agencies to healthcare providers to hospitals to medical centers, and now works more...
by Laura Thompson | Apr 12, 2018
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...
by Laura Thompson | Apr 9, 2018
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...
by Laura Thompson | Apr 2, 2018
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...
by Laura Thompson | Mar 6, 2018
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...
by Laura Thompson | Feb 1, 2018
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...
by Laura Thompson | Jan 3, 2018
Allergies and special diets have increased both the awareness of and need for allergen-specific and gluten-free school menus. Some of these allergies and intolerances can be very severe, with a wide range of symptoms: vomiting, stomach cramps, brain fog, mood swings,...
