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“Basically, think of [AI] as your friend who knows everything and likes to tell you about it, right or wrong,” he said. “There are inherent risks with AI because it pulls everything from the in- ternet and weird stuff is out there.” Terronezalso uses AI to translate training videos recorded in English into other languages. After recording the video in English, he uses an AI transla- tor platform to translate it into the lan- guage(s) needed. “Everybody usually has someone where English probably isn’t their first language, and this is just something that could help with that,” he noted. 2 COMING UP WITH MENU IDEAS When the district began roll- ing out breakfast in the classroom, some teacherswere hesitant about im- plementing the program because they were worried about the meals making a mess. In response, Terronez decided to fill the breakfast in the classroom menu with mess-free recipes and turned to Chat GPT to help him brainstorm. “I asked it for school breakfast ideas where mess is minimal and it [gave me] ideas,” he said. Similar to using the program for training, operators still need to re- view and edit Chat GPT’s responses as needed, Terronez advised, but it can, “help get the ball rolling” when trying to come up with ideas for new menu items. 3 CREATING CONTENT FOR WEBSITES, NEWSLETTERS AND MORE Outside of the kitchen, Assistant Director Adrea Katzenmeier uses Chat GPT to create content for things like the nutrition team’s website, job fair flyers and the quarterly employee newsletter by simply entering in a prompt about what she wants the content to be about. During the session, she showed how she recently used it to create a page on their website about the district’s upcoming summer meals program by simply typing in the information she wanted Chat GPT to include. “I'm pretty much feeding it all that information, the details of our sites, the dates, the times, all the informa- tion that parents might want to know, and then out pops some good content in great formatting that I can use by copying and pasting into my website and reviewing and editing as needed,” she said.
THE TEAM NOW USES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR EVERYTHING FROM TRAINING TO NEWSLETTERS. 3 WAYS THE NUTRITION TEAM AT WICHITA PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS UTILIZING AI
1 SIMPLIFYING TRAINING At Wichita, employees have varying levels of skill in the kitchen. Chef Andrew Terronez has turned to Chat GPT to help him simplify recipes and other instructions for staff who may not have as much kitchen experience as some of their peers. Terronezwill sim- ply tell the AI-enabled chat platform to rewrite recipes into an easier-to-follow format, and the program will provide a simplified version. While the tech is helpful, Terronez cautions that operators need to double check its work and make sure it con- tains no errors or misinformation. For example, there have been instances where Chat GPT has put things in Cel- sius, Terronez said.
W hile AI is still in its infan- cy, some school nutrition operators are embracing the tech and have already begun to incorporate it into their day-to-day operations. During the School Nutrition Associ- ation’s (SNA) Annual National Confer- ence (ANC) held this week in Boston, members of the nutrition team at Wich- ita Public Schools in Wichita, Kansas, shared how they’re utilizing Chat GPT and other AI platforms to help them with everything from employee train- ing to creating content for newsletters. Here's some ways the team is em- bracing artificial intelligence. BY BENITA GINGERELLA
Chef Andrew Terronez shared how he has used AI for training and more during the SNA's 2024 ANC.
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