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San Diego Unified School District Sand Diego, California
Thanks to a surge in federal and state funding, Sandi Coast Cafe has made a large investment in technology, cooking equipment, and training to support the move to healthier and fresher school meals. With Kitchen Infrastructure and Training Funds, Sandi Coast Cafe has been able to upgrade its kitchens, hire and train staff and make other improvements so we could serve high-quality meals made from scratch for all students. A need for technology. Sandi Coast Cafe is bringing technology to its cafes by providing 200 ipads to nutrition staff that are used as digital recipe books, replacing printed menus with digital menu boards, and kiosks for staff to check their emails, do trainings, and catch up with department news. The goal is to embrace technology to make everyone’s jobs easier. Similarly, these upgrades will make the department have better control over food safety, meal counts, inventory, and food cost with a dramatic reduction in paper waste while facilitating timely interdepartmental communication. State-of the-art kitchen equipment. Sandi Coast Cafe has installed 53 RATIONAL Combi Ovens in the last decade. Most of the combi ovens can be monitored remotely through a cloud based platform called “Connected Cooking” which allows the culinary specialist to monitor the units remotely for cooking habits, cleaning schedules and light maintenance. He’s also able to provide assistance remotely
when troubleshooting, roll out new recipes, and download HACCP reports. This technology has been the cornerstone of scratch cooking programs with an array of overnight roasted base products such as beef, pork roast, pork ribs, turkey roast, and ground beef. Similarly, Sandi Coast Cafe has purchased 25 R2 Dice Robot Coupes with slicing, dicing and pureeing capacities. For example, our staff uses this equipment to slice all the cucumbers for 300+ salad bars, pico de gallo for hispanic inspired dishes and hummus for bento boxes. Another investment elevating Sandi Coast Cafe food operations include the purchase of 130 immersion blenders to produce speed scratch salsas and homemade dressings. Internally, Sandi Coast Cafe has created step-by-step culinary training videos to assist cooks on the proficient execution of new recipes and the introduction of new products. Furthermore, the Food Team has created a robust selection of job aids and micro trainings to be uploaded to ipads and staff kiosks. However, the biggest tech overhaul will happen this summer when Sandi Coast Cafe (Food & Nutrition Services) transitions to eTrition, a comprehensive web-based School Nutrition software that will allow the department to speed up lunch lines, manage financial data in one secure location, reduce meal application process and improve point of sales management.
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