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Senior Dining & Meals

Meatless for seniors: How the dining team at Pennswood Village wowed with new vegetarian options Meatless for seniors: How the dining team at Pennswood Village wowed with new vegetarian options

byBenita Gingerella

Jan 16, 2025

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K-12 Schools

Kids can cook: New preschool culinary class gives students a taste of preparing their own meals Kids can cook: New preschool culinary class gives students a taste of preparing their own meals

byBenita Gingerella

Jan 15, 2025

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byBenita Gingerella

Jan 16, 2025

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K-12 Schools

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The fast lane: Dartmouth Dining introduces a futuristic new biometric palm scanning entry system The fast lane: Dartmouth Dining introduces a futuristic new biometric palm scanning entry system

byReyna Estrada

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Colleges & Universities

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Hospital & Healthcare

5 things: Compass North America saw 17.4% revenue increase in fiscal 2023 5 things: Compass North America saw 17.4% revenue increase in fiscal 2023

byMike Buzalka

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K-12 Schools

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FSD’s 10 best articles of 2024FSD’s 10 best articles of 2024

Revisiting 10 of our most impactful articles from the past 12 months.

Tara Fitzpatrick, Editor-in-Chief

December 19, 2024

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This roundup touches down on the stories that took accurate snapshots of onsite foodservice this past year, from surviving hurricanes on college campus to funding Indigenous food in schools to fighting lost labor in healthcare dining to return-to-office tug of wars, new beginnings in the corrections system and FSD’s take on the National Restaurant Show.

About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Editor-in-Chief, FoodService Director

Tara Fitzpatrick is editor-in-chief of FoodService Director. She previously served as senior editor for Food Management magazine.

At the start of her career, Tara was a reporter for the daily newspaper in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she still resides. She holds a journalism degree from Kent State University. She's also a mom, a pretty good home cook and a fan of ghost stories, folklore, architecture, retro recipes, cheese of all kinds and cats of all kinds.

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