CCSD Congratulates Third Annual School Nutrition Team of the Year Winners

The Cherokee County School District is celebrating the winners of its third annual School Nutrition Team of the Year awards!

R.M. Moore ES STEM Academy is the elementary division winner, and E.T. Middle School is the middle school/high school/center division winner of the program, which gives school cafeteria teams the opportunity to win prizes by improving their service to students, teachers, and staff.  Congratulations to our winners and thank you to the award sponsors and to our School Board for its longtime investment in our School Nutrition program!

For all of last school year, the teams at each school cafeteria worked to earn top scores for the “Six Servings of Success”: health inspections, employee satisfaction, program participation (number of students who purchase meals or receive free or reduced-price meals), inventory levels, budgeting, and promotions.  

The elementary school team and the middle school/high school/center team with the best scores were named the winners and announced today at School Nutrition’s annual back-to-school training day for all staff held at Woodstock High School.

The R.M. Moore cafeteria team is led by Manager Kelly Pruitt and Assistant Manager Tammy Fortenberry and is made up of: Susan Clark, Micaela Morales, Erin Watkins, Regina West, and Emily Wood, and new to the team this school year, Christina Hogan and Ianondrea Singh. 

The E.T. Booth cafeteria team is led by Manager Erika Smith and Assistant Manager Tammy Poulnot and is made up of: Imelda Alcantara- Martinez, Diana Cole, Lucy Cortez, Judit Hailu, Lisa LaCotti, Yinet Mirabal, and Carmen Parkoo.

Runners-up also were honored: first runner-up for elementary, Holly Springs ES STEM Academy and for middle school/high school/center, Teasley MS; second runner-up for elementary, Woodstock ES and for middle school/high school/center, Dean Rusk MS.

The overall winning team members each earned a $100 Visa gift card and special shirt; each overall winning team received a $500 gift card and honor banner for their cafeteria; each first runner-up team received a $250 gift card, and each second runner-up team received a $100 gift card, with costs for all these gifts sponsored by the Cherokee County Educational Foundation.  

Each overall winning team also received special gifts for the school kitchen including: a set of industrial food storage containers and several smallware kitchen items from PMR - Professional Manufacturers Representatives; a gift basket of smallware kitchen items, utensils and a Dunkin gift card from CGA Reps; and a gift basket of kitchen tools valued at $500 from The Hansen Group.  The overall winning teams also will be treated with a catered meal at a later date sponsored by Credit Union of Georgia.

Each member of the winning teams additionally received a “swag bag” with gifts from Buffalo’s Café, Canyon’s Fresh Grill, Chick-fil-A Cherokee County, Cobb EMC, Credit Union of Georgia, Hunter Cattle Company, Krause Family Ford, LINQ Connect, Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt at Riverstone, Mission Escape, Northside Hospital Cherokee, Nothing Bundt Cakes Woodstock, Smile Doctors Orthodontics, The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta and Williamson Bros. Bar-B-Q.

The awards program is in addition to CCSD’s Support Staff Employees of the Year program, which all non-educators, including School Nutrition workers, are eligible to win for their school.  School Nutrition and Procurement Executive Director Tina Farmer proposed the team awards to encourage further program improvement and provide additional recognition for employees.

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