Trending this week: Million dollar donation lets children hospital expand food pharmacy program

This week on Food Management the top story was Maryville University raises the bar on salads. Shopping at her local supermarket, Linda Thacker had an inspiration: Why couldn’t Maryville University, where she was director of dining services, offer the same sleek, well-maintained, easier-to-manage salad bar experience she found at the store? This fall, her wish will be granted. Fresh Ideas, which handles foodservice for the St. Louis school, agreed to the idea and forged a deal with Swedish company Picadeli to install its tech-enhanced salad bar in the main dining hall. Maryville is the first U.S. college to have such an arrangement.

In other news, The University of Massachusetts Amherst has been named the top school for the seventh time in the 2024 Princeton Review Best Campus Food list. The rest of the top 10 in order are Cornell University, Bowdoin College, Pitzer College, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, University of Dayton, Virginia Tech, Kansas State University and St. Olaf College.

See what else was trending on FoodManagement.com this week.