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Delivering Customer Service
Decorate
The cafeteria atmosphere is as important as the food and the service. Young
children tend to enjoy bright colors, whimsical characters, and cartoon heroes.
Older students may appreciate a more sophisticated approach with seasonal or
sports-oriented displays and popular music playing in the background.
Use Team Nutrition’s
Feed Me poster,
which has been a
very popular item
for older children.
Find it at
www.fns.usda.gov/tn.
Be sure to surround students with colorful visual images of fruits and
vegetables to remind them of these healthful eating options.
• Use the posters in this guide, and contact fruit and vegetable associations
to see the materials they provide free of charge. Copies of Enjoy Fruits
and Vegetables can be ordered from the American Cancer Society at
1-800-ACS-2345.
• Use Team Nutrition’s Feed Me poster, which has been a very popular
item for older children. Find it at www.fns.usda.gov/tn.
• Purchase the 5 A Day The Color Way materials from the
Produce for Better Health Foundation. One of these
posters is included in this package. Visit the Web site
at www.5aday.org to see what else is available.
• Add posters of specific fruits and/or vegetables when
you are featuring them on your line. Visit the Produce Marketing
Association’s Web site at www.aboutproduce.com to identify the fruit or
vegetable you target and any consumer group supporting it that has
materials available for schools.
• Use the static clings provided in this guide (Appendix pages 57 to 59) on the
sneeze guards or small posters/magazine cutouts or any other items to draw
students’ attention to the fruits and vegetables you are offering. This is
especially important if these items are in the center of your line with no
foodservice person staffing that section.
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Work with the teachers, particularly the art teachers, to have students create
decorations. If art students are studying composition, they could use fruits and
vegetables as their subjects to create pictures for the cafeteria walls or the
school hallways. Have middle and high school students decorate the walls of
the cafeteria to provide a background for the salad bar.