Food Service & Management

Systems Analysis Project

My facility was consistently experiencing difficulties keeping cold beverages such as milk in the desired temperature range when delivering to patient rooms. Click the image above to review my approach to tackling the problem!

Retail & Wellness Promotion

To promote our order - ahead app, Bite, I conducted a health - fair style table complete with nutrition education, games, and free food samples from our cafeteria, all while compiling data from patrons about use of the Bite app and how we can improve. Click the above image to see our results!

Employee Management

Working with my facility's operations manager, I learned how to conduct regular in-service education sessions with staff, the interview & hiring process, how HR meetings work and how to review and approve PTO. Observing real - time management was invaluable and gave me an opportunity to reflect on & develop my own interpersonal skills.

Clinical Nutrition Management

During my CNM rotation, our main initiative was tackling getting IDDSI terminology, recipes, and procedures adopted into our facility. I was able to sit in on CNM virtual meetings regarding discussion of IDDSI regulations and barriers other facilities had experienced and overcome. We worked very closely with the kitchen operations manager, chef, and kitchen staff, as IDDSI required attention at each point in the command chain. My favorite day of this rotation was conducting an in-service with the cooks on preparation of minced and moist (MM5) and soft and bite sized (SB6) foods, as well as demonstrating the syringe test for all kitchen staff

Sodexo Mindful Table & Employee Engagement

Part of my CNM rotation was conferencing with other Sodexo facilities and collaborating on our Mindful initiatives. Myself and my preceptor got to receive feedback on our work promoting Mindful, and got to offer feedback to others as well. It was interesting to see this process from an upper management perspective, as I had seen how everything went with the actual execution of a Mindful recipe video with my community preceptor. Observing the first steps to setting our facility's mindful initiatives was eye opening to the world of management. In addition to the Mindful table, I also got to collaborate on menu development for our plant-based initiative in April.

Cullinary Pursuits

Working with my facility's retail operations manager and head chef, I was able to work on menu development for our Bite app breakfast launch, Superbowl celebration in the café, and for our Mindful, plant-forward meals.