Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor
Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor of Food Management and has served the magazine in this capacity since 1998. Before that, he was executive editor of The Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike covers news, operations, management and supply chain issues for the magazine. 

Articles by Mike Buzalka
The Spartan Diet Gets a Major Makeover
Michigan State makes a commitment to "lead with food"
Dining at Darden
One of the world's foremost commercial foodservice firms turns to a noncommercial foodservice specialist to manage its onsite dining needs.
IDEAS 2011
From branded wellness concepts to the latest menu trends, training strategies to customer research, the 2011 FM IDEAS Conference offered meaningful ideas to onsite operators across all segments.
Tech Revolution
Texas Tech has quadrupled its dining revenues since 1998 by building a program that keeps the communter heavy student population on campus to eat.
What Makes a Great Wellness Program?
Six tips for getting the most out of your wellness program initiative.
On the Front Lines of Child Nutrition
At Jackson, Mississippi Schools, the school meal program is serious business.
Growing the Business
Visa re-opens its renovated Metro 1 Café on Northern California campus
FM's 2011 Top 50 Management Companies
The major foodservice contract management companies meet the challenge of tough economic times with operational innovation, fiscal discipline and targeted expansion.
5 Management Companies to Watch
Beyond the "Big 3," many smaller foodservice management companies are showing interesting growth patterns.
5 Management Companies to Watch: HHS/Culinary and Nutrition Solutions
You won’t find HHS / Culinary and Nutrition Solutions (CNS) on FM’s “Top 50” list, but if CNS division president Keith O’Neill has his way, it could well be there within a year or two. O’Neill, a 1992 Healthcare Silver Plate winner whose central ...
5 Management Companies to Watch: Prime Business Dining
One growing concern targeting the corporate dining segment exclusively is Prime Business Dining, a division of a commercial restaurant and catering concern called Mazzone Management. Based in Scotia, NY, Mazzone formally entered the onsite world in 2010 ...
5 Management Companies to Watch: Food for Thought
Food for Thought has operated in the Chicago area since 1983—its first client was the Chicago Botanical Gardens. For many of the early years, the catering side of the company dominated, but it had some contract accounts from the very beginning. Its ...
5 Management Companies to Watch: Metz Culinary Management
Consistent organic growth has been hard to come by given the economic environment of recent years. In terms of percentages, few companies can argue they’ve done better than Dallas, PA-based Metz Culinary Management (formerly, Metz & Associates). With FY ...
5 Management Companies to Watch: Trusthouse Services Group
One of five management companies to watch
NYU Langone Chef Cruises to Win in AHF Culinary Competition
Executive Chef Cornel Ruhland of NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City spent most of his career in European fine dining restaurants and on luxury liners before docking in New York.

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