Objective: to design a food service facility for an enrollment increase of 500 students at Old Orchard Junior High School. It was achieved by coordination of a conveyor system. (RG)

Temple University in Philadelphia has contracted three food service operations for greater efficiency. (PG)

At the University of Maryland, a system based on convenience foods and disposable ware results in an operation that shows a profit. (Editor)

At the University of Delaware, the food service director sees little to be gained from convenience foods or disposables; all food is cooked on campus within the budget. (Editor/PG)

Savings can be made by planned maintenance of school cafeteria equipment. (Author)

The University of Minnesota at Duluth has dining halls in one building and the dishwashing room in the basement of the building next door. A conveyor system transports dishes back and forth from the dining areas to the dishwashing facility. (Author/MLF)

The facilities and operations of the school lunch program in the public schools of Hawaii are reviewed. Several types of school lunch programs are described including--(1) traditional school lunch programs, (2) kitchen and classroom dining, (3) central and decentralized dining, (4) home school-feeder school system, (5) central kitchen, and (6) the…

There is a need for smaller, more comfortable, lunch rooms in which children are treated with dignity. (NI)

When Yorktown switched to a flexible scheduling program it wanted to stretch the lunch hour to encourage students to spend their two free periods per day at school. The answer was a private food contractor who is responsible for equipment, personnel, and food preparation and is open from 7:30 a.m. to well into the evening. (Author/JN)