Food Waste Focus

When an operator starts monitoring food waste on the different stations, they often find that the salad bar has more waste than expected. Two good questions to ask are: What is the least popular item on your salad bar?  What’s the most popular? Least Popular: What doesn’t sell?  Why?  The change of seasons is often [...]

I spent Friday in Pennsylvania, speaking at the Philadelphia South Jersey ASHFSA Symposium.  Mary Cooley of Pennswood Village CCRC in Newtown, PA shared an interesting story with the audience at my concurrent session – she recently piloted changes to her salad bar in a senior living environment.  To reduce the risk of cross-contamination in a self-serve salad [...]