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Custodian turns lunchtime into trivia gameshow, karaoke singalong

May 2016Granite Schools

Photo of Brad Robinson

Lunchtime at Neil Armstrong Academy is a pretty lively event thanks to head custodian Brad Robinson. Some folks from Food Services stopped by the school recently to applaud Brad for his engaging lunch activities, including: Wikipedia Wednesday, sing-alongs, jokes, trivia, and Top Eagle Tuesday. ...

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Filed Under: Employee LinkTagged With: custodian, food services, fun, lunch, neil armstrong academy

Fourth-graders take over GEC café kitchen for regional culinary competition

March 2016Granite Schools

Photo of Future Chefs participant preparing dish

A few dozen elementary students wearing white smocks and toques filled the GEC cafe kitchen to prepare their own breakfast recipes for judging in a regional cook-off.  The annual Future Chefs National Challenge invites fourth-grade students to develop their own kid-friendly recipes and become ...

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Filed Under: Employee Link, Parent LinkTagged With: breakfast, cafe, competition, cook, food, food services, future chefs, granite education center, healthy, kitchen, sodexo

Recognizing Extraordinary People in Granite’s Food Services Dept.

March 2015Granite Schools

Photo of Future Chefs contestant pouring ingredients

Tens of thousands of students in Granite School District are fed multiple meals most weekdays in schools throughout the Salt Lake Valley. That’s a HUGE task for one department to undertake. Fortunately, we have hundreds of individuals who provide this service with expertise, diligence, and ...

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Filed Under: Employee LinkTagged With: employee, extraordinary people, food services, granite, recognition, sodexo

Fourth-grade chefs go head-to-head in regional culinary competition

February 2015Granite Schools

Photo of Future Chefs contestant pouring ingredients

Dozens of elementary students from schools throughout the District took over the GEC Café last week in the 2015 Future Chefs competition. The annual nationwide challenge invites fourth grade students to develop their own kid-friendly recipes and become actively involved in making good nutritional ...

Read Fourth-grade chefs go head-to-head in regional culinary competition

Filed Under: Employee LinkTagged With: competition, eating, food services, foods, future chefs, healthy, kitchen, snack, sodexo

West Lake Jr. High keyboarding students send letters to lunch workers

October 2014Granite Schools

Photo of West Lake Jr High keyboarding students posing

Food Services staff members at West Lake Junior High received an unexpected gift last week from some students who wanted to share their appreciation. Keyboarding students took time to key letters of gratitude for the hard work and devotion of the cafeteria staff in preparing and serving meals to ...

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Filed Under: Employee LinkTagged With: cafeteria, food services, keyboarding, letters, lunch, thank you, west lake junior high

2014 USDA Summer Feeding Program to provide meals for kids

June 2014Granite Schools

Summer Food Service Program logo.

The Granite School District announces its sponsorship of the Summer Feeding Program. Free meals will be made available to attending children, 18 years and under. The U.S Department of Agriculture prohibits discrimination against its customers, employees, and applicants for employment on the bases ...

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Filed Under: Parent LinkTagged With: department of agriculture, food services, meals, summer, summer feeding program, usda

Twelve schools to receive USDA Fresh Fruits & Vegetables grant

May 2014Granite Schools

The Utah State Office of Education has announced twelve elementary schools in Granite School District that will participate in the USDA Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Program for the 2014-2015 school year. Students at the schools will receive individual servings of varied fresh fruits and vegetables ...

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Filed Under: Employee LinkTagged With: food services, fresh fruit, grant, usda, vegetables

Career Day with Food Services’ Chef Gratton

March 2014Granite Schools

GSD Chef Jeff Gratton is always on the lookout to try new foods and develop original recipes. “My favorite food is anything where its creator has invested time, creativity and care,” he said. At a recent Career Day event at Hunter Junior High, Jeff displayed his culinary prowess in front of ...

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Filed Under: Employee LinkTagged With: career day, chef, cook, culinary, food services, jeff gratton, technical

Fourth-graders face off in the kitchen in first stage of national culinary competition

March 2014Granite Schools

Twenty-four young chefs from across Granite School District came together at the GEC Cafe to create their homemade healthy sandwich recipes for judging and sampling as part of a national contest of edible entries. The 2014 Future Chefs National Challenge sponsored by GSD Food Services provider ...

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Filed Under: Employee LinkTagged With: cafe, competition, Featured, food services, future chefs, gec, healthy, recipe, regional, sandwich, sodexo

Getting a look at how school lunch is prepared

November 2013Granite Schools

By Amy O'Grady “We wanted our own firsthand look at how students’ lunches are planned and prepared,” notes Mary Beth Schmidt, who organized last week’s breakfast meeting and tour of Granite School District’s 84,000 square foot Bates Central Kitchen. She and fellow assistant principals and ...

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