Edible Education: Slicing up Inspiration for Your Menu and More!
Looking for a little inspiration to help boost your menu cycle? Welcome to our column featuring bites of nutrition knowledge and insight for your team’s menu creation needs. Here you can digest four menu recipe categories to customize, create and expand your cycle menu for improved customer satisfaction. How about an easy to use cookbook with “Harvest of the Month,” “Simply Fresh,” “Global Trends,” and “Comfort Classic” recipes to fill your team’s idea baskets? These recipes are sure to help inspire dishes that students will love and can easily be created in your kitchens to increase participation.
BACK TO SCHOOL with our TOP TEN TIPS for SUCCESS!
# 10
Steal an IDEA
over 200 school professionals, 28 vendors and 3 chef teams! Back to school doesn’t have to feel overwhelming and lonely. Attend a food show and collaborate with other schools to share resources. Remember that school cafeterias are not competitive restaurants and we can benefit from sharing both the strengths and pain points of our programs. You may have just the answer to help someone with their program’s stressors, and likewise, reach out to others to seek insight into problem solving yours.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Learn what other programs have done to elevate their programs and recreate their ideas. Check out this brand new elementary school and how they are showcasing their new “Eat the Rainbow” produce bar to their community with a fun video on how to navigate and select from a variety of fresh options. We’ve all heard of the good work that other schools have done. Can you adapt the idea in your cafeteria?
# 8 Commit to a
marketing strategy
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Find a marketing strategy that works for you and your program and commit. Set a goal for what you are going to do to market your program and how often you will do it. Is it weekly social media posts, monthly newsletters, routine email blasts, a monthly special meal feature? We often say with documentation, “If it’s not documented, you didn’t do it,”. The same thing can be said about marketing your program. If you don’t share what you’re doing, it often goes unnoticed. Need some ideas? Watch this video on some suggested marketing strategies.
# 9
Collaborate with others
It takes a village and ours was in full force at our Back-to-School training bootcamp that had
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