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This year, school lunch foodservice workers and directors have had some major obstacles to overcome. We recently read a statistic that a local school district in Virginia had distributed over 15 million lunches to the community over the past year. That number is humbling to us and truly immeasurable, because we know all the hard work and dedication that goes into this industry.

If you're running a commercial kitchen or restaurant in the Virginia and Washington, D.C. area, you're already familiar with, and buying from High Sabatino. We take pride in offering the best brands for our business partners to find success and grow their companies. For that reason, we're always looking for new manufacturers to represent that share our values for quality and flexibility.

The hardest times to be grateful and express gratitude are during the hardest times. Those are also the most important and most rewarding times to be thankful.

This year has seen drastic pivots toward delivery and takeout. This means operators and restaurant owners are modifying menus, changes processes, and doing whatever they can to help control quality from the end of the cooking process up to the point where foods are being consumed -- wherever and whenever that occurs.

This year, all of us at High Sabatino and Associates are focusing on gratitude. We're eternally grateful for our customers and friends; we know we wouldn't have gotten through 2020 without your support and trust. Yes, our holidays are going to look different this year. Yes, we know so many families are suffering during this pandemic. And, yes, we're doing all we can to bring the things for which we're thankful to the forefront.

Pizza is arguably America's most loved food and a 2020 Technomic reports that 43% Americans eat pizza at least once a week. The COVID-19 crisis further popularized pizza as the go-to restaurant meal because of its freshness, minimum contact handling, and easy delivery. There are several trends that pizzerias have adapted in 2020 to survive in a highly competitive environment and cater to their demanding customers. We look at five pizza trends that are shaping the food industry in 2020.

This year so many things are being canceled, and while it technically would have been over by this point, we can't help but think about Oktoberfest when this time of year rolls around.

Thumbs up if you're meeting all your school foodservice challenges, but based on everything we've heard, there are still significant issues that every school district faces.

One of the hardest things to do in life is to see things from someone else's perspective. When we do, though, the number of insights we can receive is invaluable, and this is certainly true in Virginia and Maryland school cafeterias.

It's that time of year. We are quickly moving through the end of summer and getting ready for schools to reopen. We are bombarded with advertisements in all forms of media regarding sales of back to school supplies.