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Foodservice Powerplant Network: Conversation with Marlon Gordon, NxtGen Network

Plastic Free Lunch Day in San Diego Unified School District 20 min

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Marlon was working tech for a school district’s foodservice department when he fell in love with the people and mission of the K12 community. His love of people and passion for creating marketing solutions that the industry hadn’t seen before led him to create NxtGen Network, a refreshing marketing, advertising, and production company that utilizes fun digital magazines, a talk show and live feeds at various foodservice events to bring vendors and districts together in something positive and fun!

In this episode of Next Up, your host, Marlon Gordon, meets with USFA member San Diego Unified School District. He chats with Melanie Moyer, Diego Robles, and Janelle Manzano about the success they saw in their districts 200 schools for Plastic Free Lunch Day. Listen in to learn what tips and tricks they used in their district to make this day as successful as it was.

About this podcast -

Story is the great motivator. And we have an industry full of individuals with amazing stories. Each week the Foodservice Powerplant Network sits down for a conversation with industry leaders who have dared to dream big and turn their dreams into reality. We hear of the challenges overcome, the detours on their road to success, all the reasons why they do what they do. It’s in listening to another person, who’s willing to be genuine with their story, that we come to realize we’re all really quite similar, and all equally capable of.

The Next Up Podcast series is the landing place for those interested in thought leadership. Here you’ll find the podcast versions of our Live talk show, Premier talk show, and stand alone podcasts. We focus on having real, and open conversations with the most inspiration, intellectual, innovative, individuals from across the globe that share a common desire to help others be the best version of themselves.

In this episode Sam Oches talks with Sahil Rahman and Rahul Vinod, the co-founders of the Washington D.C. based Indian fast casual RASA. These business partners have opened four locations in the past five years, and now they’re raising capital to continue scaling in the D.C. area and beyond. Key to this growth process, though, is changing consumers’ mindsets about Indian food, a process that is embedded in everything RASA does. For emerging and global cuisines, Americans need an update on perception. Perception is as much about the environment and experience as it is about the food. The fast casual industry is an important conduit for cultural change. How the founders of D.C.’s RASA are changing the perception of Indian food

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