An enterprising food service director has introduced student taste test panels and they have had great impact on the district's lunch program. (Author)

Argues that management by objectives is a procedure that can and should be applied to food service. (Author)

The implications of any program as large as food service suggests that the administrator be conversant with the total field of food service distribution and the extras'' available as part of a burgeoning industry. An administrator has the right to expect competitive prices, excellent quality, good delivery, and superior peripheral services.…

Describes how one food service management company, by dramatizing the ingredients of a Type A lunch, has increased the demand for such lunches, raised its gross income, saved students money, and raised the level of their nutritional intake. (Author/MLF)

In this satellite system, all food is prepared fresh daily in the junior high school and shipped in refrigerated trucks to other school locations. Explains how increasing operational costs forced the Long Branch, New Jersey, School District to seek the aid of a food management company to plan and implement this new program. (Author)

Conversation serves as a checklist for effective school food service. (MF)

In Joliet, Illinois, a food management system based on increased student participation in the school lunch program, was so successful that the controls developed to manage it were adopted as standard operating procedure in overall school system management. (Author/MLF)

Clark County school district in Las Vegas, Nevada, has combination lunches available for high school students that meet Type A nutrition requirements but which resemble the commercial fast food menus teenagers prefer. (MLF)

First annual food service index. Should be helpful in guiding administrators in the management of their individual food service operation. Especially designed to be of assistance in planning and evaluating food service facilities and in pinpointing areas of opportunity for food marketing managers. (Author/EA)