At Creative Dining, the Holidays can not come soon enough. From the Wish Lists to the Winter Jingles, for many, the Holiday elicits memories of full plates and full hearts. Our team looked at the top three most popular holiday foods from last Christmas according to Statista, and came up with our favorite recipes for each!
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Parent Dining Questions: Answered! [Part 3]
Welcome to the third blog in our series Parent Dining Questions: Answered! In this blog, we’ll talk about how we answer questions like this: “My son needs a job. Why should he apply to work in your dining program?” Answering this question at face value (“We pay a fair...
Parent Dining Questions: Answered! [Part 2] Nutrition for Student Athletes
Welcome to the second blog in our series Parent Dining Questions: Answered! Today we’re going to talk about the concerns of parents with student athletes. Our experts see this question often: “My daughter is an athlete, and she needs nutritious food. Will she get...
Two (Tasty!) Reasons to Eat a Plant-Based Meal
What if we told you that your next meal can taste amazing while also supporting your health and the planet by being plant-based? Interested? It’s simpler than you think: Order or prepare a meatless meal. Not a vegan or vegetarian? No problem! Even meat lovers...
Parent Dining Questions: Answered! [Part 1]
“My daughter has gluten and dairy allergies. What can she eat?” Welcome to the first blog in our series Parent Dining Questions: Answered! We’re going to address a question asked by parents of children with specific dietary needs or preferences. “My daughter has...
Packaging Blues? How to Be Greener During COVID
We were all working hard to avoid filling up landfills. Reusable coffee cups and water bottles trumped plastic and Styrofoam. Little to no packaging was the name of the sustainable game. Plastic cutlery, straws, and individually-wrapped foods were taboo. Less...
4 Ways to Unite Your COVID Task Force & Your Dining Team
“We’ll get through this together.” The saying may have already reached cliché status, but we can recognize the wisdom in it. By sharing knowledge and resources, by coordinating efforts, we can face the pandemic more aptly and emerge from it stronger than we could...
Creative Dining Launches On-the-go Unbeliev-a-bowls
No one wants to feel guilty, especially when it comes to the food we eat. Most of us have experienced a time when we rushed around trying to keep up with an overcommitted, bloated schedule of events, and we suddenly get accosted by hunger pains. You can only ignore...
Shaking Up Sugar for National Nutrition Month
The Creative Dining nutrition team has educated & equipped leaders across all of our dining locations ways to help combat these statistics with our March initiative “Sugar Shake-Up,” which includes right-sizing dessert portions, mixing in healthier ingredients when baking (such as nuts and dried fruits), and encouraging more water consumption (and less sugary beverages) by offering fruit-infused waters and various brands of flavored waters.