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Back to School Workshops

Prepare food service professionals for the upcoming academic year. Carrie Frank Consulting can cover critical USDA professional standards, food safety protocols, culinary training and student dietary regulations.

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Culinary Training and Scratch Cooking

Carrie is a trained Chef with expertise in 5 Star Restaurants, Healthcare and K-12 Schools. Let Carrie train your staff in the “Short Cuts” in Culinary Skills.

Whether it’s knife skills, proper cooking, cooling and efficiency skills are critical tools to a high quality program. In addition, well trained employees are more efficient, work better together, and save time in labor and food waste.

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School Nutrition Support-

Procurement review
SOP review and development
Meal pattern compliance analysis
Production record evaluation
Documentation organization
Mock administrative reviews
Corrective action planning
Buy American compliance guidance

Commercial Equipment Advisor

When considering purchasing, you're faced with an array of choices in commercial kitchen equipment. In addition, purchasing the right equipment is a major investment. It can improve operations, increase efficiency, and maximize profitability. There is nothing worse than making this type of purchase only to purchase the wrong piece of equipment.

Before you purchase any commercial equipment, let Carrie help you make the right purchase for the right job!

Menu Freedom Consultant

Menu Freedom helps foodservice directors run profitable and efficient USDA-compliant nutrition programs with a complete, turnkey system for menu selection/planning, nutritional analysis, compliance reporting, food orders, meal prep and marketing.

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Farm to School

Farm to School program can be challenging. There is a different process in preparing local foods verses foods that come from vendors. Carrie has grown a successful Farm to School program in her former PK-12 school district. Let her learning experience and success stories help build your F2S program.

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Farm To School: Growing Our Future Documentary

Farm to School Comes to Life at Dover-Eyota Schools

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Minnesota Farm to School Grants

Grant Writing and Grant Management can be challenging and time consuming. With all your job entails let Carrie Frank Consulting write or manage a grant for you for a small fee.

Deeply Rooted Michigan Broker

Expanding palates and program participation.

With premium Deeply Rooted K-12 Plant-Based Protein Crumbles, you can create dishes that not only satisfy students with specialty diets, but delight traditional eaters as well.

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The Business Layer of School Nutrition - Finance - Operations - Workforce

FIG K12 is a professional development and operations platform built exclusively for public school nutrition professionals. Founded by industry veterans with decades of hands-on district experience, FIG K12 connects training, data, and daily operations in one place — helping teams.

Tell us a bit about your district. We'll reach out within one business day to schedule a walkthrough at a time that works for you.

GROW@FIGK12.COM

888-286-9205