Our team members have just wrapped up our 40th annual Caring for Kids campaign, with results that we are cheering about!
Category: Community
Caring For Kids & The Parkhurst Online Auction
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, as our annual Caring for Kids campaign is in full swing! During November and December, across all of our Parkhurst accounts, team members have the option to take part in this fundraiser for local children’s hospitals. The campaign started in 1979 through the grassroots efforts of a…
Food Recovery Network helps feed the hungry in Williamsport
For several years, Parkhurst at Lycoming College has maintained a partnership with the American Rescue Workers (ARW) where unused and perishable food from the dining services operation is donated to the organization at the end of each semester. In the fall of 2013, Michael Kane, a recent Lycoming College graduate and the men’s program director for ARW,…
Project Lunch Tray
This year, I celebrate my 15th year with the Eat’n Park Hospitality Group. I’ve had the opportunity to work on some really exciting projects and events and this year so far has been no different! I was recently contacted by the Community Kitchen Pittsburgh to volunteer for a cooking event called “Project Lunch Tray.” The event lets…
Simplifying Food Waste Collection
Parkhurst Dining is responsible for providing the food service at Alcoa’s corporate campus in New Kensington, PA. The café that we operate was recently renovated and now has a new recycling and waste collection program. Parkhurst has assisted over 20 locations with implementing composting programs so naturally we were eager to assist with the conversion and education of the process…
Chef in the Schoolyard
Written by Tim Fetter, CEC, Executive Chef, Duquesne University and posted by Jamie Moore On Tuesday September 16, I had the privilege to spend the afternoon with some students at the Greater Pittsburgh Urban League Charter School in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Grow Pittsburgh has a terrific Edible Schoolyard program that creates on-site gardens…
