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Cafe' Services now offers a variety of environmentally friendly products to all locations company wide. Our standard disposable products consist of 100% biodegradable plates, cups, salad containers and napkins.

Wellness Program

Our bi-monthly online newsletters keep your school community informed on health and wellness activities in your school district.

Farm to School in the Classroom

Giving students hands-on experience with a school garden encourages support for local agriculture, reinforces pride in ownership and promotes healthy, sustainable lifestyles.

Nutritious and Fresh, Every Day

At the heart of our successful, school food service programs is our commitment to serving creative meals that not only taste good, but also are nutritious and fresh every day.

FRESH PICKS CAFE NEWS

April 07, 2017

Fresh Picks Café Shows High Schoolers Link Between Public Policy and Healthy Eating Habits

At Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire, school lunches from the Fresh Picks Café are more than just a source of sustenance, they're part of the curriculum....

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November 22, 2016

Hydroponic Grow Carts Enhance Hands-On Learning in Dover and Hampstead New Hampshire Schools

Kids that care about sustainable eating want to know where the ingredients in their food were grown. At New Hampshire schools in Dover and Hampstead, kids that want to know where the basil on their pi...

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September 23, 2016

Power Bowls Make Healthy Choices Easy Choices

Plates are being passed up for bowls as containers for healthy meals at cafes and restaurants across the country. This month, Fresh Picks Café introduced Power Bowls at school cafeterias in New Hamps...

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April 29, 2016

Fresh Picks Cafe Helps Manchester 3rd-Graders Bring Tastier, Healthy Food To School Cafeteria

School lunches that meet federally mandated nutrition standards may be good for kids' health, but not for kids' taste buds - or a successful school food service program, for that matter....

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February 05, 2016

Fresh Picks Café Gives New Hampshire School Kids A 'Taste of India' To Enhance Their Understanding of Indian Culture

Last month, when 6th graders at the Henniker Community School studied India through an Artist-in-Residency program, the school called on Fresh Picks Cafe to serve a school-wide lunch featuring a sampl...

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December 10, 2015

At Springfield High, Hydroponic Garden Gets Kids Talking About Local Food

If you want to know what kids at Springfield High are talking about this month, just take a walk through the cafeteria. Right in the middle, you???„?ll see a rectangular cart on wheels with racks of...

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October 27, 2015

Fresh Picks Café Supports Sustainable Vergennes To Teach Vermont Students Benefits of Local Agriculture and Healthy, Sustainable Lifestyles

Giving students hands-on experience with a school garden is a great way to teach the benefits of supporting local agriculture and leading a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. ...

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September 28, 2015

Fresh Picks Café Employees Celebrate Milestone Anniversaries in 2015

As lead cook at Elm Hill Elementary in Springfield, Vermont, Anna Tewksbury knows the school kids by name, and cares deeply about satisfying the students and educators she serves. ...

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May 31, 2015

Health and Wellness Internships Are Mutually Rewarding to Fresh Picks Café and University of New Hampshire College Students

Jordan Tierney is a junior at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). A nutrition major studying to be a dietitian, she agrees with Frank Gillespie, a registered dietitian and Manager of Training and N...

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April 30, 2015

Fresh Picks Café Congratulates Jalapeno Hotties of Brattleboro Union High School, “Lively Local” Winners at Vermont Junior Iron Chef Competition

Ashley Maguire is a senior at Brattleboro Union High School and student in Sandy Cormier’s Food Fundamentals class. A competitor in last month’s 8th Annual Vermont Junior Iron Chef competi...

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March 30, 2015

Fresh Picks Café Congratulates Profile Regional High School, Top Achiever In New Hampshire School Breakfast Challenge

Fresh Picks Café is proud to announce that on March 13, Profile Regional High School in Bethlehem, New Hampshire was recognized as the top achieving small high school in the New Hampshire School Brea...

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February 15, 2015

FreshPicks Café Sponsoring Middle and High School Students at 8th Annual Vermont Junior Iron Chef Competition.

Get cooking! On Saturday, March 21, FreshPicks Café is sending four teams of middle and high school students from the Brattleboro, Vergennes and Windsor, Vermont school districts to compete in the st...

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February 02, 2015

Fresh Picks Café Associate Wins Outstanding Citizen Award in Pittsfield, New Hampshire.

Fresh Picks Café food service associate, Marion “Gram” Pouliot, does more than just help lunchtime go smoothly at Pittsfield Middle School. She greets kids by name with a smile, spots the...

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October 10, 2014

To Get Kids to Eat Healthy, Get Them Into the Cafeteria

Fresh Picks Café Bringing Action Stations To Over 50 New Hampshire and Vermont School Districts, Starting October 2014...

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June 02, 2014

“Smart Snacks In School” Rule: Beverages Count, Starting July 1

The word’s out: Starting July 1, 2014, all US schools that get assistance from the National School Lunch Program are required to comply with USDA “Smart Snacks in School” rules for food and beve...

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May 27, 2014

How Ready Are You For Smart Snacks In School? Starting July 1, USDA Rules Become Mandatory for Schools Across America

On July 1 THIS summer, USDA “Smart Snacks in School” rules become mandatory for the over 100,000 elementary, middle and high schools in the US that accept assistance from the National Scho...

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May 12, 2014

Fresh Picks Cafe Food Service Director Named “Champions for Children” in 2014.

Shelly LaClair, Food Service Director for the Barrington, New Hampshire school district, believes firmly in giving back to the community in which she works. Her generosity has not gone unnoticed. In M...

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April 14, 2014

Fresh Picks Café Joins Somersworth and Pittsfield, New Hampshire Schools To Teach Kids Fun, Healthy Habits

Living a healthy lifestyle is fun. It can taste good, too! That’s the lesson Fresh Picks Café is showing kids this spring at wellness fairs sponsored by the Somersworth/Rollinsford and Pittsfie...

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March 31, 2014

Fresh Picks Café Joins Brattleboro Community To Help Students Start The School Day Right

Eating a healthy breakfast every morning is good for everyone, especially for school kids. According to the American Dietetic Association, kids that eat breakfast perform better in class and on the pl...

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January 30, 2014

Third Graders Lobby FreshPicks Cafe To Eliminate Plastic Utensils From School Cafeteria

FreshPicks Café is committed to doing its part for the environment and works hard to set a positive example for kids. So when a class of third graders at Garrison Elementary School in Dover, New Hamp...

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December 20, 2013

“Thank You” Fresh Picks Café For Making The Holidays Happier for Kids in Need

The management team at Café Services thanks the many Fresh Picks Café associates at schools across New Hampshire and Vermont who supported the corporate-wide Toys for Tots drive this month....

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November 25, 2013

Monday Is Meat-Free at FreshPicks Cafe

The Humane Society of the United States is partnering with Café Services to implement Meatless Monday at FreshPicks Café, by providing meat-free recipes that meet national school lunch guidelines an...

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October 25, 2013

New Hampshire School Kids Feast On An Apple A Day At Fresh Picks Café

To students served by Fresh Picks Café in Plymouth, New Hampshire, “an apple a day” is much more than an old saying from their parents’ childhood years. It’s a daily treat at ...

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September 01, 2013

Fresh Picks Cafe Makes News on WMUR New Hampshire

Fresh Picks Cafe chef and district manager, John Veeser, demonstrates healthy black bean salad recipe for Saturday morning channel 9 viewers....

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June 18, 2013

Cafe Services Proud Sponsor

Cafe Services is a Proud Sponsor of the Seacoast Harvest Local Food Guide!...

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May 27, 2013

School Kitchen Garden Inspires Healthy Eating

Kids are more likely to try new foods when they’ve helped grow the ingredients. Just ask Café Services Food Service Director Shelly LaClair. She serves meals made with fresh produce from the Ba...

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April 04, 2013

Fresh Picks Café Director Leads Mission to Make Healthy Food From Local Farms Easily Accessible to All

Windham Farm and Food (WFF), nurtured for three years as a non-profit enabling easy access to healthy locally produced food, is forging a new path as an independent, mission-driven LLC. Who better to ...

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March 08, 2013

Smart Snacks In School Puts USDA In Class With Fresh Picks Cafe

New USDA guidelines for offering healthy snacks in schools aim to bring kids across the country what Fresh Picks Café has been serving for over a decade: A variety of snack choices throughout the sch...

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June 13, 2012

Excellence Award Received for Food Safety!

Congratulations to Melissa and her team at our Trinity High School Cafeteria....

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June 01, 2012

Fresh Picks Cafe-Garden Grow Carts

Café Services loves to use fresh veggies and fresh herbs in the meals that we serve! This year Fresh Picks Café began to pilot a Garden Grow Cart program in schools....

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June 01, 2012

Get the Edge!

The Café Services team in partnership with the Lebanon SAU and HEAL are working hard to educate and energize students to Eat Smart, Get Out and Be Active....

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September 12, 2011

Second Annual Windham Farm Chef Workshop+

The Second Annual Windham Farm Chef Workshop hosted by Cafe Services in conjunction with The Windham County Farm and Food Network brought local Chefs together to exchange ideas and prepare dishes usin...

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May 31, 2011

Apple Festival

Inter-lakes School District Food Service Program, managed by Café Services has partnered with Picnic Rock Farms through NH Farm to Schools to bring more fresh fruits and vegetables into the school lu...

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May 31, 2011

In the Community

The First Annual Barrington Food Pantry Soup, Chili & Chowder Festival was a great success! Thirty One people participated and donations reached $775.00, canned food items were received at the door....

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May 31, 2011

Menu Awards Week

Students were challenged to write menus that conformed to standards for the school lunch program and incorporated as many local ingredients as possible....

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May 31, 2011

International Week

The first week of April was International Week at Middlebury Union High School. The cafeteria served featured foods from around the world, with items such as Ratatouille, Chicken Pad Thai & More!...

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May 31, 2011

Stone Soup at Middlebury Union High School

This year's Stone Soup Summit and Associated School events held at Middlebury Union High School (MUHS) in early April were a great success!...

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WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE TO SAY

Partnering With Schools to Improve Nutrition

"Cafe Services Fresh Picks Cafe' "serves" not only food, it also "serves" as one of our school partners to promote wellness, improve nutrition, increase the standard of quality, and importantly, to also serve as a positive connection to students."...

Brenda Needham

Superintendent, Windsor School District

Service, Nutrition and Value

"We depend on our food service vendor to provide nutritionally sound and filling meals at a low cost. That is a tough balance of priorities and requires the collaboration of the vendor and the school district, with input from parents and studen...

Steven Hier

Business Manager, Springfield School District Springfield, VT

Dedicated and Professional

"I have utilized Cafe' Services as a food service management firm for over a decade. They are extremely dedicated and professional. The quality of the food and the preparation is excellent. They have never failed to listen to any co...

Keith M. Pfeifer

Superintendent of Schools, SAU #17

Successfully Balancing Nutrition, Health and Financial Requirements

"I have contracted with Cafe' Services for managing school district food service operations in three New Hampshire school districts since 1993. They have successfully balanced the nutritional, health, budgetary and financial requirements, not a...

Jim Vezina

NH Department of Education

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