Chef Kent Getzin Consulting

Chef Kent Getzin Consulting Leader in the transformation of the child nutrition industry. Continue to earn reimbursements while receiving quality skills you teams can use tomorrow!

We inspire confidence and purpose in school nutrition professionals, empowering them to serve beautiful, nourishing meals that kids love! With 42 years of successful, innovative foodservice industry experience, Creative Culinary Solutions is prepared to assist with just about anything food-industry related that you can imagine. Through Kent Getzin Consulting, I offer a wide variety of consulting s

ervices to schools and restaurants. Services will include but are not limited to:

SERVICES

"Live Setting" Meal Preparation Trainings: Train your teams in their live work environment, during production. No need to wait for early release days to train your teams. "Live Setting" Meal Preparation Trainings will help your staff learn and retain more of the information they learn because they will see the immediate results, being served to your students! Designed to meet new professional standards regulations.

- Menu and Recipe Development
- Administrative Review Prep
- Wellness Policy Update Assistance
- New School Food Service Director Training
- Interim Director and Transitional Services
- Live and Webinar Speaking Events
- Troubleshooting, Technical Assistance and problem-solving your most complex food service issues.

As you may recall about a month ago I asked if anyone wanted to test this No-Sugar-Added Breakfast Bread recipe I had be...
05/28/2026

As you may recall about a month ago I asked if anyone wanted to test this No-Sugar-Added Breakfast Bread recipe I had been working on.

Well, Tawnya White, Child Nutrition Supervisor
at Griffin School District #324 in WA state took on the challenge!

Here are her pics and what she had to say about it!

"So yesterday we tried the recipe three different ways (one batch with the fruit sweetener, one batch with half fruit sweetener, half honey and a third batch with just honey). We tried them all & was happiest with the mixture of half the fruit sweetener & half honey. The one with just sweetener was on the drier side compared to the mix one. The one with all honey didn’t look as appealing & just wasn’t as good as the mixed one. Here are pictures from the testing."

Thank you so much Tawnya for testing it out!

And thank you for taking this important work of feeding kids well so seriously!

Ever wonder what it is I actually do? Here's a quick run-down of my services as a K12 culinary training expert:🥕"Lab-Set...
05/28/2026

Ever wonder what it is I actually do? Here's a quick run-down of my services as a K12 culinary training expert:

🥕"Lab-Setting" Trainings🥕 give staff the time and space to focus on cooking techniques, recipe ex*****on, and working with whole food ingredients without the pressure of a regular production day. Teams can practice new skills and build confidence before the school year begins.

🥕"Live-Setting" Trainings🥕 are scheduled during any regular live production day and are completely customized to work with your equipment in your team's everyday work environment. I'll meet your most urgent training needs, all during live production!

🥕Team Builder Events🥕 focus on strengthening the team itself. Through collaborative cooking challenges and fun skill-building activities, staff build trust, communication, and pride in the work they do together feeding students.

All options help teams feel more confident, connected, and ready to cook!

Support from your district’s Administration is critical to making the move to scratch cooking. I hope your boss is as su...
05/26/2026

Support from your district’s Administration is critical to making the move to scratch cooking. I hope your boss is as supportive as Jon was for me!

Something I've found that really helps is having a compelling VISION for your Child Nutrition program.

Get serious and sit down with your team and brainstorm what the ”best program ever” could look like. This type of strategic-thinking, the crafting of a compelling VISION Statement will almost miraculously "light the path" that you need to take.

Your VISION will give you not only something your team can use to see the first or next steps on your scratch-cook journey, but is also something you can share and show progress toward when presenting to your leadership team, school board, and community.

When you share your vision of feeding students better, people will be so much more willing to help you move your plan forward!

Trust me on this. Having a compelling vision is critical to getting to your ideal state!

Thanks Jon for all the years of support!

05/25/2026

There's just something magical about cooking with farm-fresh produce 😍

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Farm to School?! That's a dumb idea. Said NO ONE EVER!

When I was a Food Service Director at Wenatchee Schools, I could never have imagined serving locally grown, organic produce in my program.

I was always so shocked by the prices I'd see at the grocery store for the organic stuff and just assumed it was way out of reach for a school meals program.

Well was I ever wrong! I found an organic farmer about 40 miles from our district and they bent over backwards to make organic produce a reality for us!

Half the fun of local purchasing is getting to know your farmer. Jim Baird was my local grower. Great guy!

Farmers love-love-love seeing the food they grow get directly into the bellies of hungry kids at school!

F2S seriously ROCKS, but you need to brag about what you’re buying to everyone in your community.

Otherwise, how will they know?

Chatting with some school cooks recently as I was demonstrating cinnamon roll production, we were all reflecting back on...
05/21/2026

Chatting with some school cooks recently as I was demonstrating cinnamon roll production, we were all reflecting back on our years of eating school lunch...

Anyone else remember looking forward to Chili and Cinnamon Roll day?

Sounds a little weird (or at least a little mid-west) but, seriously who can resist a scratch-made cinnamon roll!

Cool thing...the dough recipe I use in my trainings is one I got to develop with the person who came up with Cinnabons dough! Jerilyn Brusseau, what a cool lady!

Come on, I'll show you how!

The school year isn’t over yet, and neither is your opportunity to improve your program!From menu adjustments to simple ...
05/19/2026

The school year isn’t over yet, and neither is your opportunity to improve your program!

From menu adjustments to simple system changes, there are ways to make things work better right now while setting yourself up for next year.

Give me a call and I'll walk you through what's possible!

Roasted veggies is hands down THE easiest way to increase scratch cooking in your school kitchen. Once you learn to use ...
05/14/2026

Roasted veggies is hands down THE easiest way to increase scratch cooking in your school kitchen. Once you learn to use my easy and delicious Universal Veg Roasting System, you'll know how to roast nearly every veg on the planet, and in SO MANY delicious world flavors!
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Hey you! In case you're new here, I'm Chef Kent Getzin. I travel all around the country leading the charge in the transformation of the child nutrition industry. I work every day to inspire confidence and purpose in school food pros, empowering them to serve beautiful, nourishing meals that kids love!

Signing up for my e-news is the best way to score free recipes, tips and encouragement for transitioning to scratch cook...
05/12/2026

Signing up for my e-news is the best way to score free recipes, tips and encouragement for transitioning to scratch cooking in your schools. It would make my DAY if you'd join me in my little corner of the internet!

05/11/2026

School food pros are the heartbeat of every school food program. When your team has systems that work and start taking pride in what they're serving, things shift in a big way!

The goal here isn't a miraculous overnight transformation! It's taking one small step at a time towards improvement.
05/07/2026

The goal here isn't a miraculous overnight transformation! It's taking one small step at a time towards improvement.

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