Beyond the Headaches: Solutions to Staffing Challenges (Food & Nutrition Services-Focused)

Overview:

In today’s world, there will likely never be too many cooks in the kitchen again!  It can be exhausting managing the dining program.  Join us for this session, where we will inspire a new mindset and offer innovative ways to embrace and rise above the challenges

Objectives:

• Discuss the headaches related to finding and engaging staff and offer creative ways to address
• Inspire a new look at streamlining dining systems that promote efficiencies and save time

Presenter:

Julie Halfpop, Director of Nutrition Services, Martin Brothers Distributing

Julie Halfpop is the team leader of 7 dietitians who provide menu and other value-added services to senior living and healthcare foodservice customers. Passionate about the senior living industry, Julie has devoted almost 35 years to inspiring excellence in dining. Having managed food & nutrition departments, she challenges her team daily to develop and administer tools and services that will promote successful management of the industry’s opportunities & challenges. Her favorite topics of conversation revolve around menus, developing marketable dining experiences, controlling costs, and coaching staff.

Julie is a graduate of Iowa State University with a BS in Food & Nutrition/Dietetics and has a long history of teaching the Dietary Manager courses, public speaking, and a creative approach to serving others.

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