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St. Marys Medical Center in Blue Springs, MO, has opened an expanded food service operation called the St. Marys Medical Center Bistro

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Coosa Valley (AL) Medical Center has opened a new West Wing complex in Sylacauga, AL, that includes a modern 130-seat retail dining area called the Hickory Street Cafe

The Middleby Corp. has named Ray Williams division president of its Jade Range unit

Michigan State University has named Vennie Gore assistant vice president for housing and food services

The Ann Arbor (MI) school board has voted to outsource its foodservice program to Chartwells

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A Brazilian firm, J&F Participacoes S.A., is acquiring Swift & Co., the third-largest U.S. processor of beef and pork

The city of Richmond in British Columbia, Canada, has voted to become the first in North America to ban eggs taken from caged hens from all city-run facilities

Loren Kimura has been named president/CEO of Basic American Foods

The State of New Jerseys health department is starting an Office of Nutrition & Fitness, reportedly making it the first state to create such a government body

Sodexho Alliance has decided to delist itself from the New York Stock Exchange

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games has named Aramark Corp. the official catering service provider for the 2008 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games

Coca-Cola has agreed to purchase New Age drinks maker Glacea.

Sodexho Alliance has promoted George Chavel to CEO of its North American operations, succeeding Richard Macedonia, who is retiring

Fishery Products International, Inc., has promoted Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing Keith Decker to COO

Aramark Refreshment Services has acquired the Seattle office coffee service business of Caffe Pazzesco

The Middleby Corp. has named David Brewer division president of its Pitco Frialator unit

Ohio University Dining Services is scaling back its recently introduced Dining Dollars program after determining that it was hurting cash sales in its new Baker University Center food court

Lansing (MI) schools will close its high school campuses next school year, keeping more than 4,000 students onsite during lunch periods

Vanderbilt has named Lida Lorne director of its dining services

The Culinary Institute of America is partnering with former Pace Foods owner/CEO Kit Goldsbury to open the CIAs Center for Foods of the Americas (CFA) in San Antonio

Patina Restaurant Group has won the contract to provide dining services at the Tanglewood music complex in Lenox, MA

H.J. Heinz has named Jeffrey Berger executive vice president and chairman-Global Foodservice

On Wednesday, May 23, Global Renewable Energy and Environmental Network (GREEN) will hold an interactive online discussion about the state of biodegradable waste in America

Blodgett Oven Co. has promoted Vice President/General Manager Gary Mick to president

Precision Foods, Inc, has completed its acquisition of Total Ultimate Foods, Inc.

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Foster Farms has promoted Bob Wangerien to senior vice president of marketing

Aramark Refreshment Services has acquired R&B Coffee, an office coffee services business based in Grand Rapids, MI

Compass Group has sold its European vending machine business, Selecta, to a company managed by private equity firm Allianz Capital Partners

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The Massachusetts Port Authority plans to add a Todd English-operated Bonfire restaurant unit and a new food court as part of a 20,000-sq.ft. expansion of Logan International Airports busiest concourse

The USDA plans to purchase up to 53.9 million pounds of apple products for child nutrition and other domestic food assistance programs

Foodservice equipment maker Hatco Corp. has been purchased by employees from owner David Hatch

The Palo Alto (CA) school board has approved a lunch program deficit reduction plan that maintains a full lunch program at all its schools except Palo Alto High School

Concord (NH) Hospitals cafeteria is earning about 10 percent less revenues than last year because of a policy change that eliminated unhealthier menu items in favor of healthier ones

Liberty University will commence an extensive renovation and expansion of its campus dining services

University of Notre Dame foodservice workers in the schools retail Huddle Food Court are petitioning to be paid time-and-a-half with mandatory breaks on the Saturdays of Notre Dame home football games

A woman who claims her back was broken by a falling, drunken fan at the home opener of the New York Mets at Shea Stadium has filed suit against the Mets and stadium concessionnaire Aramark

The newly renovated Cross Campus Library at Yale University will include the campuss first Yale Sustainable Food Project Cafe

U.S. Foodservice, the second largest broadline foodservice distributor in the U.S., is being acquired from Dutch grocery chain operator Royal Ahold NV by a pair of private equity firms

Sargento Foods, Inc., has acquired Portionables, Inc., a manufacturer of frozen sauce and other food products

NACUFS has announced the winners of its Best in the Business Campus C-Stores competition

Arizona State University has awarded a seven-year contract to Aramark Higher Education

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