
2021 Team Member Appreciation Month
The month of April is a very exciting and unifying time for Parkhurst Dining. It’s Team Member Appreciation Month! Across the 13 states where we
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The month of April is a very exciting and unifying time for Parkhurst Dining. It’s Team Member Appreciation Month! Across the 13 states where we

I genuinely love walking in and seeing my team invested in what they’re doing and supporting each other like a family. For the students – we try to bring them the food experiences of different cultures and provide the opportunity to expand their palates by trying something new.

For our first Culinary Engagement event of 2021, Parkhurst Director of Sourcing and Sustainability Jamie Moore lined up an interactive hour packed to the brim with information, all tied back to our Culinary Gold Standards.

To me, working towards being respected as a chef in other peoples’ eyes is more important than a given title. It is earned. I started cooking for people when I was around 18 years old, but I didn’t take it seriously until a few years later.

In partnership with United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Parkhurst helped to provide 57,000 holiday meals, lunches, and weekend food packs in time for Thanksgiving.

Earlier this month, Parkhurst hosted its first Virtual Food Show under the leadership of Jamie Moore, Director of Sourcing and Sustainability, and Tim Fetter, Executive

When the pandemic shut down schools in the Pittsburgh region, many students who relied on free and reduced lunch for consistent meals suddenly and unexpectedly

While safety has remained our focus and priority, we also considered how critical it was to preserve the joy in food; the connections it sparks

At the outset of the pandemic, we lived up to our brand promise of building genuine partner relationships and worked one on one with each