Culinary Digital and Whitsons partner to launch “Café Connections” across 110 School Districts

Café Connections is the newest innovation from Culinary Digital to manage the content on screens at each school with ease, helping to develop skills and keep team members engaged. The internal digital network of up to 700 screens connects Whitsons’ K-12 cafeterias across 110 school districts. Café Connections was inspired by FD Connect, an existing employee communication platform for food contractors and self-operating cafeteria operations, which puts CD Signage’s screen management capability to work.

Additionally, Café Connections will:

• Inform staff with real-time information on new products, plans, training, features, or recalls
• Enable responsive communication between corporate/district office and onsite teams
• Give each district the flexibility to personalize messages across its own schools

Kelly Friend

COO for Contract Management, Whitsons

“We’re growing at a very rapid rate, and the larger we get, the more challenges it presents in terms of trying to reach out to all our team members. The goal was to be in front of it and start coming up with solutions before we would have to go backwards looking for a solution. Our motto is People, Food and Communication. Not only does this align with our goals and our company culture, but it also addresses the food part of it. Each location can share what they’re doing with the food being served. It’s inspiring the employees”

Abilash Krishnaswamy

VP of Products, Culinary Digital

“We have been partners with Whitsons Culinary Group over the last 8 years and worked on various projects involving automation and digitization of back of the office and front of the office cafeteria management functions. Café Connection further strengthens our already existing long-term strategic partnership. The high-impact communication platform can be used to send day-to-day happenings including OSHA training needs, supply chain challenges, newsletters, benefits, and much more.”

About Culinary Digital:

Culinary Digital is the company building The Operating System for Institutional Foodservice. CulinarySuite, available in three tiers: CulinarySuite Operate, CulinarySuite Insight, and CulinarySuite Foresight, connects every procurement decision to production, every production record to compliance, and every compliance signal to what gets ordered next.

Together with CD MealPlanner and CD Signage, the OS powers more than 2.5 million meals daily across K-12 education, healthcare, senior living, corrections, higher education, business and industry, and foodservice management companies. Smarter foodservice. Stronger teams. Inspired performance. culinarydigital.com

About Whitsons Culinary Group

Whitsons Culinary Group provides a wide range of highly customized dining services to public schools, healthcare dining and emergency services throughout the Northeast, with a strong focus on nutritious, high quality meals made from wholesome, fresh ingredients. Whitsons has a long and proud history of excellence and growth since 1979 and is setting new standards for the foodservice industry with wholesome foods and family values. For more information, visit www.whitsons.com or find us on Facebook or Twitter.