Partnership with Nationwide Dairy Council, Common Mills, and Hubert Brings New Favourite Smoothies for College students to Fill Up on the Transfer
OAK BROOK, Unwell., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Between courses, sports activities, and seeing mates, college students are at all times on the go and craving meals that may sustain with their busy faculty schedule. This fall, children have a brand new technique to gasoline their day as Chartwells K12 introduces their Smoothie Station idea, that includes wholesome healthful drinkable breakfast, lunch, and snack choices full of fruits and dairy in additional than a dozen taste mixtures. The Smoothie Station will launch in additional than 140 faculties starting this month, together with Flagstaff Unified Faculty District (Ariz.), Faculty City of Munster (Ind.) and Poplar Bluff Faculty District (Mo.).
“Smoothies have been the main beverage added to restaurant menus final 12 months*, and we’re tapping into that curiosity and pleasure by bringing them straight to the varsity cafeteria,” stated Belinda Oakley, CEO, Chartwells K12. “With our new Smoothie Station idea, we took insights heard immediately from college students and created a technique to provide a scrumptious, on-the-go meal to assist children energy by means of their day.”
Conserving on-trend with smoothie eating places throughout the nation, Chartwells’ new Smoothie Station will provide quite a lot of taste mixtures for conventional smoothies in addition to new smoothie bowls college students can customise with completely different fruit and grain toppings. Every smoothie incorporates at the very least one serving of fruit and dairy, offering college students with a wholesome beverage as a part of their breakfast or lunch choices.
“Smoothies provide the distinctive good thing about offering a number of meal elements that college students can drink within the cafeteria or simply take with them,” stated Lindsey Palmer, MBA, MS, RDN, VP, Vitamin and Trade Relations. “In addition they present an incredible alternative for youths to devour extra yogurt, milk, and fruits, together with new mixtures they could not have tried earlier than.”
Developed by Chartwells cooks and dietitians in partnership with Common Mills, recipes vary from the favored Strawberry Banana Smoothie to extra distinctive, adventurous mixtures like these within the creamy Avocado Kale Mango or Mango Chili Lime smoothies, with further choices together with Blended Berry, Strawberry Oat, and extra.
“In creating the smoothie idea, it was necessary for us to supply college students acquainted, well-loved smoothie recipes together with taste profiles which may be new to them,” stated Chef Peter Gilhooly, Vice President – Culinary, Chartwells K12. “Smoothie Station is our newest cafeteria idea the place we’re ensuring children have quite a lot of selections out there and an opportunity to find one thing new.”
Chartwells K12 is partnering with Nationwide Dairy Council, Common Mills, and Hubert to launch the Smoothie Station idea. Colleges taking part within the pilot program will obtain a Smoothie Station equipment offered by Nationwide Dairy Council by means of Hubert, a meals service tools producer, that features a Waring business immersion blender, insulated cooler luggage to carry ready smoothies, a transport cart, and extra.
Earlier this fall Chartwells launched their new Global Eats program, taking college students on a meals exploration to have fun the cultural heritages of China, India, Italy, and Mexico – with out ever leaving the cafeteria. Smoothie Station and International Eats are the most recent revolutionary packages to affix Discovery Kitchen, Student Choice, and Mood Boost in making cafeterias the happiest place in faculties.
About Chartwells K12
Chartwells K12’s purpose is to verify college students depart the cafeteria happier and more healthy than they got here in, by serving meals children like to eat and creating customized eating packages. With greater than 16,000 associates in 4,500 faculties, starting from massive public establishments to small constitution and personal faculties, Chartwells K12 is constructed on a long time of meals, schooling and operational expertise pushed by prime culinary, diet, wellness, and sustainability expertise. For extra info, go to www.ChartwellsK12.com.
About Common Mills Foodservice
Common Mills Foodservice serves the foodservice and bakery industries by offering high quality merchandise from time-trusted manufacturers together with culinary, diet schooling and advertising assets to assist operators succeed. Its distinguished model portfolio contains Large G Cereals, Yoplait, Nature Valley, Gold Medal, Pillsbury, Chex Combine, Bugles, Gardetto’s and Annie’s. For extra info, please go to www.generalmillscf.com.
About Nationwide Dairy Council
National Dairy Council® (NDC) is the non-profit group devoted to bringing to life the dairy neighborhood’s shared imaginative and prescient of a wholesome, pleased, sustainable world – with science as the muse. NDC gives science-based diet info to, and in collaboration with, quite a lot of stakeholders dedicated to fostering a more healthy nation, together with well being and wellness professionals, educators, faculty diet administrators, academia, business, customers and media. NDC has taken a management position in selling baby well being and wellness by means of packages corresponding to Gas As much as Play 60. Developed by NDC and the Nationwide Soccer League (NFL), Gas As much as Play 60 encourages youth to devour nutrient-rich meals and obtain at the very least 60 minutes of bodily exercise on daily basis. For extra info go to www.USDairy.com.
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