What's in and what's out at Fairview's Riverside campus, plus annual savings.
Gone: Oriental Chicken Salad
Replaced with: Grilled Chicken Caesar salad
Savings: $9,800
Gone: Blondie brownie
Replaced with: Devil's food cake
Savings: $3,300
Gone: Roast beef and Swiss-cheese sandwich
Replaced with: Ham and Monterey Jack sandwich
Savings: $8,700
Gone: Black plastic foam lunch plates
Replaced with: White plastic foam lunch plates
Savings: $13,000
Gone: Patient meal garnishes (orange slice at breakfast, cherry tomato at lunch, sprig of parsley at dinner)
Replaced with: Nothing
Savings: $6,000
Soon to go (potentially): Paper tray liners
Savings: $40,000
Source: Fairview
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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