Vinca Marketing and Communications brings districts the expertise needed to deliver healthy school meals that are on budget and in line with student dining preferences.
Vinca Marketing and Communications offers school districts a wide range of services to meet specific needs and overcome specific challenges, from initial research to follow-up and ongoing monitoring of food and nutrition services.
Fuel the Future
These services include, but are not limited to:
• Customer analytic packages (surveys, focus groups, intercept interviews) to help determine your needs, goals and customer preferences
• Menu review to determine current item popularity
• Menu development to modify existing menus to make them consistent with student preferences, taste profiles, current trends and quick-service marketplace
• Recipe development
• Promotion packages where Vinca partners your district with vendors and manufacturers
• Student food tastings to introduce new products and gather customer input on potential items
• Public relations to keep students and parents informed of products, and to publicize positive school food service news to the public
• Hospitality, Presentation, Merchandising Training to ensure that personnel provide a positive customer experience
• New product introduction to effectively increase participation through new product testing and roll-out
• Creative, durable signage that appeals to students and improves traffic flow
• Procurement consulting, distributor audits, bids, order guide rationalization to facilitate purchasing
• Customer-driven on-site pilot programs custom-designed for your district and including research, menu development, training, hands-on opening support for two weeks and ongoing off-site support for an entire school year
• Conference keynote and break-out group presentations for school nutrition and other conferences
