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From typewriters to Twitter

 By Paul King on Jul. 02, 2010

I know that this shouldn’t be the case, but I can’t help but be amazed at how much technology has affected society in the last 30 years.

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Social change

 By Paul King on May 10, 2010

I have been a reluctant participant in much of the technology that has been developed and refined over the last 10 to 15 years. I’ve been convinced that we rely too much on technology, and incidents such as the stock market glitch of last week that helped to send the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeting for a time tend to reinforce that opinion in my mind.

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Coddling inmates?

By Paul King on May 03, 2010

I read an article last week in the Wall Street Journal that brought back memories of features I’ve written over the years on prison foodservice.

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30 minutes of fame?

By Paul King on Apr. 26, 2010

On Tuesday, FoodService Director takes to the airwaves—specifically, community access television in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. I’ve agreed to be interviewed by Foodservice Supervisor Jodi Risse on a local program called Food 4 Thought.

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Tempest in a Tweet-pot

By Paul King on Feb. 12, 2010

How powerful has the world of Facebook and Twitter become? Strong enough, apparently, to create controversy where none exists.

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Face up: do you Tweet?

By Paul King on Jul. 17, 2009

One of the hottest topics in foodservice has become the issue of social networking and its potential value to the industry.

Workforce

Training with Technology

By Becky Schilling on Jun. 02, 2009

E-training is a convenient way to teach employees new programs and to review safety procedures. If technology is the way of the future, then it would follow that online or other computer-based traini...

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Notes from a distributor

By Patricia Cobe on May 01, 2007

Q&A with MaryKay Skrypec, SVP of innovation and quality, U.S. Foodservice.

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Taking the LEED

By Karen Weisberg on Feb. 09, 2007

A growing number of noncommercial foodservice operators are participating in LEED certification. Operators speak about how others can join the movement.

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Hospital FS going wireless

Aug. 14, 2003

The tablets function similarly to palm-size handheld computers, also known as personal digital assistants, or PDAs, in that data is entered on the computer's screen via stylus, or touch, input.

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