One-On-One with Food Service Director Hope Walker
From Our Kitchen, Setting Good Examples, SAGE Community, One-on-One, Featured Venue
Meet SAGE Food Service Director Hope Walker! She’s been with SAGE for 23 years, all at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland. She was recently recognized by Food Management as one of 30 Foodservice Heroes, chosen from more than 400 nominations across the country, for going beyond the call of duty and demonstrating the best of the onsite dining community. We chatted with Hope to talk about her food service career and why she enjoys...
SAGE Manager Participates in Student Trip to Thailand
Team Member News, SAGE Community, One-on-One, Leadership
For the past two decades, Rachael Reigelman has been a leader for SAGE at Louisville Collegiate School. She’s so integral to the school community that she was chosen as a chaperone to travel to Thailand this past summer on a student trip. Rachael has been with SAGE since 2003, all of that time as the Food Service Director at Collegiate, a junior kindergarten-12th grade, coed independent day school in Louisville, Kentucky. One of the activities the school offers is...
On the Road with RDs: FNCE
Nutrition, Allergies, Menu Builder, One-on-One, Leadership
Hi there! We’re here again with another edition of our blog series, “On the Road with RDs,” where we invite you to follow along with our Dietitians as they visit venues, teach communities, and continue their education in the wide world of nutrition. This time, we’re joining two of our Registered Dietitians, Jessica Holler and Taylor Chan, on their recent trip to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' annual Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo™ (FNCE®, pronounced “fence-see”) in...
One-on-One with Sous Chef/Lead Cook Donta Rogers
One-on-One
One-on-One with Donta Rogers, Sous Chef/Lead Cook at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic School, Atlanta, Georgia How did you get into the food business? I’ve always loved the kitchen. When I was younger, I did a lot of cooking with my mom. But my first job in the kitchen was dishwashing part-time when I was in college. I played basketball and I got a scholarship to Clark University, Georgia State, and UVA. I chose Clark. My first year there, I...
One-on-One with a SAGE Senior Software Engineer, John Noyes
Technology, SAGE Community, One-on-One
When it comes to doing things from scratch, SAGE walks the walk. To our guests in the dining halls, the term “from scratch” means fantastic food that’s made fresh daily by SAGE Chefs. But what they might not realize is that the tools that make these awesome meals happen every day are also made from scratch ꟷ by SAGE Software Engineers, like John Noyes. John and his team in the Technology Department develop and create virtually every behind-the-scenes process that...
Growing SAGE: Campus Garden at River Oaks Baptist School
Gardens, SAGE Community, One-on-One, Featured Venue
Spring has sprung! At many SAGE venues, we’re getting our campus gardens ready for planting. 70% of the communities we serve have a type of garden – from small herb boxes to small farms – and we enthusiastically harvest from them for our recipes. We know how important it is for young people to be exposed to gardening. Research shows that gardening experiences from childhood through young adulthood affect the amount of fruits and vegetables that young people eat. So...
One-on-One with a SAGE Team Member: Margaret Scott
SAGE Community, One-on-One
Meet SAGE Team Member Margaret Scott. She's been with SAGE for 10 years, all at Calvert Hall College High School in Maryland! How did you get into food service? It’s always been something I like to do. I started with home economics in middle school—I liked sewing, homemaking, and cooking. During high school, I started in fast food at Roy Rogers. What’s your role in the kitchen? My main role is working in prep—baking, roasting chicken and turkey for the...
One-on-One with a SAGE Team Member: Patricia Wolcott
One-on-One
Long-time Team Member Pat Wolcott has been with SAGE since 2002, and with Calvert Hall College High School since 2016. In this interview, Pat talks with us about her love of math, how she keeps her cool when things get stressful, and what she does in her spare time. How did you find your way to food service, and to SAGE? I earned B.S. in Secondary Math and taught school for five years before starting to waitress at a...
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