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...
Meet Rachel Perry, Creator of CCS’ SAGE in the Classroom
SAGE Community
Rachel Perry has a unique benefit of being Food Service Director at Chattanooga Christian School (CCS): She’s a graduate of the school. Rachel, who joined SAGE in July 2021, created SAGE in the Classroom, her program where she collaborates with teachers to integrate culinary lessons into the curriculum, tailored to the subject or topic at hand. She’s come full circle with SAGE in the Classroom. When she was a senior at CCS, she took part in a service project to...
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 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 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...
One-On-One with Food Service Director Hope Walker
From Our Kitchen, Setting Good Examples, SAGE Community, One-on-One, Featured Venue
Meet SAGE Food Service Director Hope Walker! She’s been with SAGE for 23 years, all at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland. She was recently recognized by Food Management as one of 30 Foodservice Heroes, chosen from more than 400 nominations across the country, for going beyond the call of duty and demonstrating the best of the onsite dining community. We chatted with Hope to talk about her food service career and why she enjoys...
SAGE Manager Participates in Student Trip to Thailand
Team Member News, SAGE Community, One-on-One, Leadership
For the past two decades, Rachael Reigelman has been a leader for SAGE at Louisville Collegiate School. She’s so integral to the school community that she was chosen as a chaperone to travel to Thailand this past summer on a student trip. Rachael has been with SAGE since 2003, all of that time as the Food Service Director at Collegiate, a junior kindergarten-12th grade, coed independent day school in Louisville, Kentucky. One of the activities the school offers is...
30 Years of Innovations: People
SAGE Community
As we celebrate the 30th birthday of SAGE Dining Services®, we’re taking a look back at how our programs have evolved throughout the years. In this blog series, we’re covering the different kinds of innovations that have made SAGE a company of firsts. We already reviewed our approach to food service management and the culinary experience as well as our unparalleled wellness education and food allergy accommodation. In this entry, we’re focusing on the people of SAGE and the training...
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