We stay away from grays and tans. We go for oranges, mauves, raspberries, greens, royal blues and sunny yellows. Our bottom line is to have fun and to eat. For existing cafeterias, they hire a designer and negotiate jobs that the in-house staff could handle. And the school graphic arts departments create the plastic food station signs as class projects.
Prepared foods reduce labor.
And when they do serve a more complicated meal, the sheer numbers game simplifies the task. Further cut labor with disposables. Hoover and Murphy also switched to disposable utensils, which are recycled at the individual school levels. Eliminating dishes meant cutting the need to staff dishrooms and buy chemicals to keep the machines running. It also translated into more room to set up the rearranged food serving lines.