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8 onsite food service directors on what they’re looking forward to in 2021

Dining directors from healthcare to senior dining to colleges discuss what they’re looking forward to this year.

Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

January 13, 2021

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2020 was a wild ride for onsite foodservice. As a segment of the food service industry that continued to work and feed customers, these onsite dining directors faces challenges in serving people safely throughout the entire year—and they learned and adjusted.

By the end of the year, the entire industry had advanced at a quicker pace in areas likes technology and safety than it had in the past, with program including robots delivering food, contactless payment and more.

Now that the exhaustion is over, Food Management spoke with several directors about their onsite operations and what they’re looking forward to in 2021 and the answers run the gamut. Some directors are expanding next year while others are ready for a quiet year (fingers crossed).

There is hope for 2021 in the small things. Everyone Food Management spoke with had positive hopes for the year ranging from customers getting to eat together in dining spaces after a long absence to a vaccine reopening the world once again.

See what these onsite foodservice professionals are looking forward to for 2021.

About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a digital editor for Nation’s Restaurant News as well as the host of NRN’s podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Group’s other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

Holly Petre hasn’t spoken at any events or on panels, but she is readily available with a killer shoe wardrobe and several witty quips.

 

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