1. Marketing Magic Manatee County School District
Jessica Anderson, Marketing & Communications Specialist
Food & Nutrition Services

2. Serving Area/Cafeteria Makeovers
Reasons for a Makeover
Increase student participation
Update an ugly and dated space
Increase school spirit with students/school administration
Increase staff moral
Single presenter

3. Lakewood Ranch High (before)

4. Lakewood Ranch High (after)

5. Lakewood Ranch High (after)

6. Lakewood Ranch High (after)
Vinyl decals for school pride
Drop down signs
Personalized merchandiser
Added TVs

7. Gullett Elementary School (before)

8. Gullett Elementary School (after)

9. Gullett Elementary School (after)
Work with your district painters
Simple vinyl decals for art
Theme around school colors and mascot

10. Haile Middle School (before)

11. Haile Middle School (after)
Color
Signs
Added TVs
New Serving Lines

12. Theme Days Once a month Increase participation by creating excitement
Increases staff moral
Advertise beforehand
Inexpensive decorations
Costumes
Change of menu
Add a treat
Giveaway prize - we use cool school reward points for prizes
Single presenter

13. Pirate Day

14. Pirate Day Create funny line tags Advertise with Posters
School Newsletters
Published Menus
Social Media
Create funny line tags

15. Snow Day – Disney’s Frozen Theme

16. Fair Day Chance to win a FREE ticket to the fair
Partner with local businesses

18. Popular Theme Days Elementary Level Secondary Level Pirate Day
Western Day
Anything Disney’s Frozen related
Dr. Seuss
Monster Mash
Secondary Level
Super Bowl
Fair Day
National Nacho Day
Chinese New Year
Pi Day

19. TVs in the Cafeteria
Digital Signage is a great way to communicate with students on a platform that they like to use – anything digital!
Use it for:
Daily menus
LTO advertising
Nutrition Education
Important information regarding school lunch or school events
Advertise theme days
Food Polls – student feedback
Single presenter

20. Examples

21. Thank you!