Culinary Center Manager - K12 Foodservice:
Biography
Susie has more than 20 years of food industry experience across start-ups, product innovation and optimization, sensory evaluation, and recipe development and editing. As K–12 Culinary Center Manager, Susie creates customer-focused solutions by tracking K–12 trends and leading recipe testing and development, product analysis, innovation, training, nutrition evaluation, and quality reviews. By staying connected with operators and keeping nutrition and regulations central, she develops trend-forward school menu solutions featuring Land O’Lakes products.
What are you most passionate about?
I love coming up with creative uses for Land O Lakes® products to ensure schools have tools in their toolbox to offer nutritious and delicious food on their menus.
What is a piece of advice or insight you want to share with operators?
School foodservice operators have always been agile and quick to adapt. They get the job done. I want operators to know they can continue to lean on us as a reliable resource to identify or create new solutions for them when they feel like they are at a roadblock.
What is your favorite Land O Lakes® product and why?
My favorite product to use as a starting point for creativity and flavor is our Ultimate Creamy White™ Cheese Sauce. This is a great product because it is shelf-stable and can be served in hot or cold applications and carries different flavor profiles easily.
