Fostering Community with Student-Submitted Recipes
SAGE Community
At SAGE, we embrace students of diverse cultural backgrounds and enjoy celebrating those cultures through food. Our Managers work with student groups to honor customs and traditions in the dining hall through authentic cuisine, and we encourage students and community members to submit their favorite recipes to be included in the menus. Kirby Jones, Senior Food Service Director at Principia School in St. Louis, knows the importance of including student-submitted recipes in his menus. He said there’s a large...
Cooking Up Confidence: Seattle Academy Culinary Club Serves Skills for Life
SAGE Community
If you've ever been to a volleyball game, a string ensemble performance, or a fundraising cocktail hour at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences (SAAS), chances are you’ve encountered a number of students selling concessions and offering passed hors d’oeuvres. Those are the members of the Culinary Club, mentored by SAGE Food Service Director Mark Franco since he arrived at the school eight years ago. The club starts with the basics: learning about the fundamentals of food safety, navigating the...
Food Recovery Efforts at St. Andrew's Episcopal School
SAGE Community, Campus Kitchen
For more than 12 years, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School (SAES) in Potomac, Maryland, has partnered with SAGE Dining Services® to help fight food insecurity in the area. The heart of this initiative is Campus Kitchen, a student-led program that repurposes unused food from the school’s dining hall into nutritious meals for those in need. The meals are distributed by Bethesda Cares, a local organization serving individuals experiencing homelessness in Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Northwest D.C. This partnership not only...
SAGE Manager Talks Being a Chef While Fighting Breast Cancer
SAGE Community
SAGE Food Service Director Jordan Liker has been a leader at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School (SSSAS) in Alexandria, Virginia, since 2017. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. After undergoing surgery and returning to work, she said the transition back into service was challenging, but that she also found support in her SAGE team and the SSSAS community. “Adapting is such a part of our jobs here and...
Fostering Community with Student-Submitted Recipes
SAGE CommunityAt SAGE, we embrace students of diverse cultural backgrounds and enjoy celebrating those cultures through food. Our Managers work with student groups to honor customs and traditions in the dining hall through authentic cuisine, and we encourage students and community members to submit their favorite recipes to be included in the menus. Kirby Jones, Senior Food Service Director at Principia School in St. Louis, knows the importance of including student-submitted recipes in his menus. He said there’s a large African...
Meet William Martz, Using Language to Connect
SAGE Community
At SAGE, we believe in teamwork and inclusion. William Martz, Assistant Food Service Director at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, is a perfect example of our commitment to leadership and extreme ownership because he broadened his knowledge of Spanish and French in order to communicate better with his team. “With the growing diversity of the workforce in the nation, I do believe that multilingualism will become a necessity in order to operate most kitchens in the hospitality industry,” William...
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