Category Archives: Schools

Cambro School Solutions: A Treasure Box That’s Easy To Find

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From salad bars to fresh fruit snack stations, school are pursuing various avenues to get more kids hands on with fruits and vegetables. But why should this just be a mealtime event?

The Challenge

Develop unique and interesting ways to reward and entice kids to try fruits and vegetables going beyond lunchtime.

The Solution

The treasure box. Brenda Robinson, Foodservice Director for the Bakersfield (CA) School District was inspired by the treasure chests where teachers keep small rewards for their students. The customized solution is a Food Box with a hygienic sliding lid and a compact Camchiller® to keep fruit and vegetables at safe temperatures for extended periods of time. Increased consumption and knowledge of a variety of fruits and vegetables The idea is to get students to look at fresh, healthy produce snacks as special treats.

Bakersfield - CA - Healthy Snack BoxThe Results

“Many children grow up not wanting to try vegetables… We find that knowledge and tasting in the classroom makes students more likely to eat it in the cafeteria.” says Brenda Robinson. The results show an increased consumption and knowledge of a variety of fruits and vegetables.

For more school solutions, visit www.cambro.com/schools.

Cambro School Solutions: Increase Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

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That headline is sometimes easier to write than to practice, especially when it comes to kids. Such was the challenge faced by Timothy Cipriano, Executive Director of Food Services for the New Haven, Connecticut School District.

The Challenge

Meet new government requirements for increased fruit and vegetables offered and consumed per child while at school.

The Solution

The Cambro Versa Food Bar® and Buffet Camchiller® are being introduced at many schools as a salad bar that can keep food at proper serving temperature for up to four hours without the hazards of ice. The salad bar offers food service directors the opportunity to offer and attractively display a variety of fruits and vegetables.

Balance: salad bars are filled with a combination of fresh fruits and vegetables from the school gardens and locally grown produce.

Salad Bars - Cambro School Solutions

The Results

  • 25% increase in student consumption of fruits and vegetables
  • Provides a solution to meet the new regulation requirements
  • Encourages healthy habits and the consumption of raw vegetables instead of just sweet fruits

For more school solutions, visit www.cambro.com/schools.

Cambro School Solutions: Flex Snack Cart

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Healthy Snacks for Multi-Classroom Feeding

The Challenge

Wanda Pedraza, Director of Staff Development for Miami Dade County, Florida School District needs to transport and dispense fruit snacks to students in multiple classrooms in 50 schools.

The Solution

Wanda worked with her local Cambro Representative to create a custom solution that would transport bulk fruit as snacks to multiple classrooms at 50 different schools 3 days a week. “Parents tell us that students are pointing out various products in the supermarket that they have tried in school,” says Pedraza.

Cambro School Solutions Healthy Snack Cart

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The Results

  • 90,000 pieces of fruit delivered 3 days a week to 52 schools
  • Increased consumption and knowledge of a variety of fruits and vegetables
  • Customized solution built with shelving, storage and temperature retention tools to meet each school district’s needs and budget

More success stories at www.cambro.com/schools.

Flip through our interactive school brochure – click here!

Contact a Cambro Rep for a custom school solution – find your rep!

About the Miami Dade County, FL School District

Miami-Dade County Public Schools is the fourth largest school district in the United States, comprised of 392 schools, 345,000 students and over 40,000 employees.

Salad Bar News

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Cambro’s Versa Food Bar™ has been a preferred selection of the United Fresh and Let’s Move for the Salad Bars 2 Schools Campaign since the beginning.Cambro Versa Food Bar

Farm to School

Ohio State University will be hosting a Farm to School conference on March 13th and Whole Foods Market has donated funds for a local school to receive a salad bar.

Read the story in the Lima News – click here.

Grocery Store Donates Salad Bar to local Virginia High School

Thanks to United Fresh and the Let’s Move Salad Bars 2 Schools program, students at Abingdon High School will soon have greater lunch options with a new salad bar.

Read the full story – click here.

Association for Dressings & Sauces Donate a Salad Bar

Students at Craig Elementary in Lawrenceville, Georgia is the twelfth school in Gwinnett County to receive a salad bar. “Craig Elementary students are taught about healthy lifestyle choices, including exercise and nutrition, in addition to their regular curriculum,” said Angie Wright, Craig Elementary principal.

 

ADS-Gwinnett Salad Bars Cambro

Photo credit: Jacqueline Petty

Read the full story here.

Do your local schools offer salad bars?

Cambro School Solutions: Breakfast on the Go

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The Challenge

School districts around the US are looking for new way to increase revenues as well as increasing participation in breakfast programs.

Becky Holter, Food Service Manager in Apple Valley, Minnesota was looking for a solution to both of these issues and found Cambro had products that helped the school serve more breakfast meals and raise more revenue for the school.

The Solution

Becky met the challenge by setting up a Cambro CamKiosk® and Work Station inside the main entrance of her school. The CamKiosk stores hot and cold breakfast options, and the Work Station is used by the school for their POS system.

The CamKiosk brings in additional revenue and reimbursements that would otherwise be lost. “We usually have over 100 transactions per day, all of them within just 20 minutes,” Holter says. The CamKiosk provides an option to fast food restaurants and increases access to breakfast for students who don’t typically eat breakfast and those that have limited time to eat before class.

Cambro School Solution: Breakfast on the Go

Results

  • Increased participation in the breakfast program
  • Increased revenues for the school district due to incremental sales
  • Improved student behavior and performance

More success stories at www.cambro.com/schools.

Flip through our interactive school brochure – click here!

Contact a Cambro Rep for a custom school solution – find your rep!

About the Eden Prairie, MN School District

8 sites

Prepares and serves each school day, approximately 7,000 breakfasts and lunches

Total staff: 109

Total number of students approx. 9,400

Cambro Launches Versa Food Bar and Work Table Ultra Series

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If you thought you knew everything about Cambro Salad Bars and Food Bars , get ready to be surprised.

The new Versa Food Bar® and Work Table Ultra Series that are stylish, non-electric, portable systems which keep food or beverages cold for hours with either ColdFest® Pans and Crocks or Buffet Camchillers®. Both the Food Bar and Work Table are NSF listed including the sneeze guards which can knock down to fit through a standard 36″ (91,5 cm) doorway. Ultra Series models feature two secure storage cabinets that can hold up to 50 Lbs. (22,6 kg) of non-perishable items.

Great for schools, restaurants, caterers and for many other foodservice operations.

Cambro Versa Bar and Table Ultra

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Click here for the Versa Food Bar Ultra Series Product Page!

Click here for the Versa Work Table Ultra Series Product Page!

View the product spec sheet [pdf] here:  Versa Food Bar and Work Table Ultra Spec Sheet

Salad Bars to Schools: Salad Bars Donated to California Schools

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Cambro Versa Food Bar - salad bar for schoolsCambro Versa Food Bars can be found in schools all over the world. For the past two years, these food bars have been one of the preferred salad bars of the Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools program.

Through the generous donation of many food companies, schools all over the US are able to serve fresh fruits and veggies with new salad bars.

Apio, Inc.

salad bar shoot at school in santa maria for apioLast week, Apio, Inc, a leader in fresh-cut green beans, donated more salad bars to 10 schools to the Santa Maria-Bonita School District. This brings the total salad bars donated by Apio to 25.

Read the full story here. [link to www.noozhawk.com]

Table Grape Commission

California Table Grape Commission has donated 58 salad bars to California grape growing regions. Tulare County will receive 28 of the salad bars and the rest will make their way to schools in 2013.

Read the full story here. [link to www.thepacker.com]

About Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools

Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools is a comprehensive grassroots public health effort to mobilize and engage stakeholders at the local, state and national level to support salad bars in schools. Our vision is to significantly increase salad bars in schools across the country until every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at school.

If you’re a school rep, you can apply for a salad bar by clicking here.

View Versa Food Bar product details here.

A visit to the French Pastry School

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French Pastry School

We recently had the opportunity to spend a couple of days at the French Pastry School in Chicago. The school is amazing – the only school dedicated only to pastry in the US and was co-founded by two French chefs, Chef Jacquy Pfeiffer and Chef Sebastien Canonne.

Chefs and interns instruct hundreds of students every year in various programs ranging from full-time to weekend-only classes but with a keen focus on pastry, baking and confectionery arts.

Cambro is proud to be a sponsor of such a great school that has produced thousands of skilled chefs. The following are some of the behind the scene photos from a recent photo/video shoot at the school.

Some of the Cambro products the French Pastry School uses include:

Camshelving©

Camshelving Elements Series

Cambro Storage Containers and Lids

Cambro Food Pans and Lids

Cambro Insulated Food Transporters

Cambro Camracks® for Warewashing

Dish Caddies

Cambro Booth at School Show ANC 2012 in Denver!

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So you say you didn’t make it to the School Nutrition Association ANC 2012 in Denver?

But you still want to see what the Cambro booth looked like?

You’re in luck – here are some pictures of the booth and more of those funky green screen photos with the Total Recall stars.

School Nutrition Association Show – ANC 2012

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The Cambro booth is ready for business at the School Nutrition Association Annual National Conference 2012 in Denver.

Along with Versa Food Bars, school trays, insulated food transporters and many other products on display, we have a fun green screen photo op with the star of Total Recall. Here are some photos from Day 1.

More photos on our Facebook page – click here to view.