Foods Students Love

Providing food that students want to eat is key to any successful school food program. Our chefs and dietitians craft student-friendly recipes and develop menus with regional and global flavors to offer a wide variety of entrée, fruit and vegetable choices that exceeds competitor menus. Our meals also incorporate many locally grown products, ensuring freshness and supporting your community.

 We emphasize consistency in recipe execution by:

• Properly and carefully training staff and continually reinforcing necessary kitchen skills
• Focusing on product quality and nutritional integrity

Healthy Menus

We provide nutritious menus for your students by:

• Creating recipes that focus on right-size portions and socially responsible food selections
• Reducing added sugars
• Reducing sodium by using only fresh or frozen vegetables, eliminating salt in recipes, and relying on seasonings to enhance flavors
• Reducing or eliminating unhealthy fats
• Incorporating the USDA vegetable sub-groups and a wide variety of fruits and vegetables at breakfast and lunch every day

Customized Service for Your District

We carefully customize our programs to satisfy the preferences of your district community and support your financial goals. Together we will design a program that fits your district by:

• Adapting menu and operational models to align with labor, equipment and facilities capabilities
• Leveraging our extensive culinary and nutritional expertise

Equity & Inclusion

We want to ensure every student has the opportunity to enjoy a tasty and nutritious meal. We understand and accommodate the varying needs of your students by providing:

• Gluten-free products and menus
• Tree-nut and peanut-free products and menus that can be implemented in a single school or district-wide
• Pork-free products and menus available
• Daily vegetarian/meatless (lacto-ovo) options
• Modifications and substitutions in menu offerings to satisfy other varying needs of your students

Healthy for Life™ Educational Resources

Providing nutritious meals is just one component of our approach to promoting student health and wellbeing. With our Healthy for Life™, platform we encourage students to make healthy decisions with student–targeted materials such as:

• Brochures to give middle and high school students important information on health-related issues
• Wellness Lesson of the Month Poster Series with eye-catching, age-relevant graphics to convey My Plate nutritional messaging 
• Health Finder Nutrition Signage and Menu Icons to empower middle and high school students to make positive food choices
• Healthy Bites Sampling Program which encourages students to try new foods in a fun way by conveniently enabling them to sample healthy menu items 
• The ACE Nutrition Mascot program which shares the importance of eating healthy and staying fit with young students

Bringing Healthy Home

Healthy eating should also extend to the home. To encourage this we offer parents:

• Parent Education Brochures with comprehensive information about our Healthy for Life™ program and Healthy for Life living
• Fresh and Healthy Adult Quarterly Newsletter with relevant nutrition news, “fad-free” facts and helpful tips for parents
• Nutrition News Fact Sheet featuring the latest insights and information about health and school nutrition
• Ask the Dietitian FAQs providing useful consumer-friendly suggestions from our Health and Wellness experts 
• Wellness Information Centers to conveniently display health and wellness in schools’ entry areas, principals’ offices, or at other high-traffic locations

Student Tools

Building healthy eating habits requires giving people the resources they need to succeed which is why we offer a number of learning tools for your district. Interactive opportunities to instill valuable lessons about good nutrition are available through:

• Growing Up Healthy Educational Series, an elementary education program that complements teachers’ classroom curricula, encourages healthy habits and establishes a foundation of age-appropriate nutrition knowledge
• Nutrition Webinars hosted by your food service director or Aramark dietitians for students, parents and community members
• Cooking and Nutrition Demos conducted by our chefs for school or community events and serving as a fun way to engage students in healthy meal preparation
• Social Media and technology to deliver relevant nutrition news, facts and insights through the web and social media sites
• School Dish Website which features a nutrition calculator to help students and parents make informed dining decisions that support special dietary needs or lifestyle choices. This tool allows you to calculate nutrients for a single menu item, to “build a tray” with multiple items or to compare the nutrient content of menu items side-by-side