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Junior Chef Competition Crowns Champion in Annual Culinary Exhibition

K-12 by Elior sponsors Junior Chef Competitions…The Farmington High School dining hall was filled with the smell of comfort food on April 12 as 29 students from elementary grades to high school competed in the third annual FHS Junior Chef Competition. The event encourages culinary skills and innovation with students plating a variety of dishes […]

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How a Mobile Cart Transformed Breakfast at Oak Lawn High School

IN NATIONAL NEWS! K-12 by Elior in FoodService Equipment and Supplies Magazine for improving breakfast participation with a new breakfast cart at the 1,800-student Oak Lawn Community High School in Chicago’s south suburbs. Utilized during breakfast hours that can move around the school, students enjoy hot and cold breakfast foods – even in their classrooms!

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Oak Lawn Community High School Dining Hall Goes Green with Latest Branding Relaunch

Oak Lawn Community High School in Oak Lawn, Illinois is seeing green thanks to a branding redesign by K-12 by Elior, the school’s foodservice provider. K-12 by Elior first launched its environmental high school brand just before the pandemic. Now at a couple years old, the team felt it needed a refresh. 

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Student Teams Cook up Great Stuff at K-12 by Elior’s Junior Chef Competition

More meaningful than your usual “Iron Chef, but with kids” cook-off and opens up the door to the community in the form of local farms and producers, inspiring us on this Earth Day! K-12 by Elior sponsored the Junior Chef Competition where students from 3rd to 8th grade at Benson (AZ) Unified School District were

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Farmington High School Nutrition Team Leans Into Customization Craze with Latest Concept

 Farmington High Schools in New Mexico unveil their NEW “Make-Your-Own” where students have the opportunity to customize their meals!  The idea for Make-Your-Own came from K-12 by Elior Resident District Manager Paula Szczepanek, who was looking for a way to not only keep costs low, but also increase participation.

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How Farmington Municipal Schools and K-12 by Elior Diverted 100,000 Pounds of Food Waste from the Landfill

Farmington Municipal Schools was recently awarded Elior North America’s Doing Good Award.  Since 2019, the K-12 by Elior Student Nutrition Team together with FMS, diverted over 50 tons of the schools’ food waste from landfills through Elior’s Zero Waste program. “They were awarded the award at the end late of 2023 due to being an

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Students Encouraged to Beat the Heat with Cucumber-Themed Menu

Read more about FRESH PICKS, a longstanding value-added engagement program from K-12 by Elior that spotlights a different healthy ingredient each month – featured at Benson Unified School District! “Fresh Picks is a value-added engagement program for all schools, and so it’s going to highlight seasonal produce each month and it encourages having more fruits

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Four K-12 Menu Items Making Their Debut This Fall

Back to School never tasted this good! A full and healthy breakfast for this adorable student at the Renaissance Charter School at Crown Point in Ocoee, Florida! She chose a house-made blueberry yogurt parfait with banana, orange juice, and milk topped with granola.  Parfaits are great fuel for the body and brain. Nutrients such as protein, natural sugars, and healthy

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