Communications is one of the key elements in order to work together as a team. Finding more efficient ways to communicate with each other opens doors to lead us to success. This year we developed a new School Food Service Manger's SharePoint site in order to better organize information to allow for easier access. Ideas for the site were originally discussed with School Food Service Managers at the end of last year in order to determine how our end users were currently utilizing the site and what they needed to make it more efficient. The site was launched in August 2013 and has been a great success. An employee site and a central office site are now under development. The central office site will most likely be launched in the summer of 2014.

Additionally our central office Timetask Calendar has been redesigned to allow for email reminders to be sent to staff when a task is approaching and a Division of Support Operations Email Communications process was developed.

Throughout the year we continued to reach out to School Food Service Managers and school administration through our Keeping You Informed newsletters. We sent three newsletters this year (Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3) to communicate information about various topics including customer appreciation days, pencil donation for students, School Food Service Manager meetings, our SFS Annual Report, and other pertinent information.