To this end, the cafeteria menu, prepared by the team trainer and a certified nutritionist, is color-coded by fat content: green for lentil soup; yellow for a mesquite-turkey club; red for meatloaf with gravy or fish and chips.
On average, the cafeteria workers prepare 100 to 150 hot meals each weekday, earning earn $3 to $4 an hour.
There's no telling how many Merck employees hold the shoe-repair service dear or would suffer if the cafeteria stopped preparing its Friday night rotisserie chicken take-home dinners.
They have also had swap meets so employees could recycle things, e-waste collection days and encouraged the cafeteria to prepare more vegetarian meals, she added.
That may mean partnering with local food banks to salvage still-edible foods, changing the way cafeterias order, prepare and serve food, and connecting businesses with local farms that may be able to use some of the waste as feed for livestock.
The co-ed Calhoun School, established in 1896, introduces Spanish in preschool and recently replaced institutional cafeteria fare with lunches prepared by a chef trained at the French Culinary Institute.
Five hundred and fifty youngsters from First Ward Elementary were bused to Highland Elementary, several miles from downtown, requiring cafeteria workers to prepare extra lunches.
Between 2007 and 2009, a professional chef trained cafeteria staff to prepare healthier school lunches (ie, more whole grains, fresh/frozen fruits and vegetables, and less sugar, salt, saturated fats, and trans fats).
The five-week television series Jamie's School Dinners, which aired in 2005, documented the challenges Oliver faced while training a group of school cafeteria workers to prepare new, healthier items, as well as his ability to encourage students to try the new menu.
As an incentive for reporters and editors to stay focused, the complex offers a concierge who handles prescriptions and dry cleaning, a cafeteria that also prepares hot take-home food and, outside, a running track; softball fields; volleyball, tennis and basketball courts; and a good-size pond patrolled by a sheep dog known around the building as "the geese police".
