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Acknowledgements

This open textbook has been written by Tracy Rieger at Fanshawe College in partnership with the OER Design Studio and the Library Learning Commons at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario

This work is part of the FanshaweOpen learning initiative and is made available through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence unless otherwise noted.

Cover image created with ChatGPT. OpenAI. (2025). ChatGPT. [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

Prompt: Please create a photo of a food services manager holding a clipboard in front of an empty commercial kitchen. The image should be in portrait format. 

Spot illustrations used throughout the text are from Undraw, Undraw license.


Collaborators

This project was a collaboration between the author and the team in the OER Design Studio at Fanshawe.  The following staff and students were involved in the creation of this project:

  • Catherine Steeves, Instructional Designer
  • Rosalyn Bourne, Instructional Design Student
  • Stephanie Audette, Quality Assurance
  • Freddy Vale, Graphic Design
  • Shauna Roch, Project Lead 
  • Wilson Poulter, Copyright 

Reviewers

Thank you to the following reviewers:

  • Laiba Sufyian, Nutrition and Food Service Management Student
  • Elizabeth Onyema, Nutrition and Food Service Management Student