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Each Friday Food Management compiles a list that highlights five things you probably missed in the onsite foodservice news that week and why you should care about them.
Here’s your list for the week of March 30:
- U.S. Open tennis complex converts to meal kit prep and distribution
Even as a 350-bed hospital facility is being constructed at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the home of the US Open in Flushing, N.Y., the complex’s Louis Armstrong Stadium is being utilized to prepare and distribute up to 25,000 packages of meals every day. Each package will consist of two days’ worth of breakfast, lunch and dinner for patients, workers and children.
Levy Restaurants, the food and beverage supplier for the US Open, along with fellow Compass North America operating company Restaurant Associates, are using the stadium’s commissary to fulfill meal packages.
“The city needs to create and distribute in excess of 100,000 meals a day for COVID-19 patients, workers and underprivileged school children who rely on breakfast and lunch in the school system for their nourishment for the day,” says USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center COO Danny Zausner. Tractor-trailers are coming from all over the country with the food that the culinary team will box up for distribution.
“There will be up to eight teams building the packages itself: two teams of people building the box program in umpire dining, two teams...