Resident District Manager, SFE
 
Paul brings nearly twenty years of food service experience with thirteen years of K-12 experience, including several roles as a multi-unit Assistant General Manager and multi-unit General Manager/Director.  

Paul received his education from Northern Arizona University, graduating from the W.A. Franke College of Business with a B.A. in Hospitality Administration/Hotel and Restaurant Management.  

Paul’s knowledge of child nutrition compliance, USDA, and state regulations has brought immeasurable value to the districts he has operated. Paul led the state of Arizona’s K-12 pandemic operations by partnering with the Arizona Department of Education to share best practices with Arizona Food Service Directors regarding serving compliant, high-quality hot meals during school closures. Paul’s breakfast in the classroom counting and claiming procedure developed in 2016 at El Mirage Elementary School has since been adopted by the Arizona Department of Education as a best practice and included in state agency training.   

Paul consistently goes above and beyond for students to bring SFE’s values to life for the students and community.

General Manager of Foodservices 

Savannah’s journey into child nutrition began at an early age, coming from poverty and sometimes not knowing where her little brother and sister would get fed started a lifelong passion to end childhood food insecurities. When Savannah’s two boys started kindergarten in west Texas, that passion was ignited! Savannah wanted her children and their friends to have the same fresh from scratch meals that would be served out of her home kitchen. Rather than complain, she decided to become part of the solution and began her career as a Child Nutrition Specialist for Ector County ISD. 

Savannah brings over 8 years of management experience with her and received her Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with accounting and finance being her main areas of concentration from Cornell University in 2019. Over the years, she has developed an impressive level of culinary and management expertise, having held multiple roles in K-12 food service in various different districts. 

Savannah Box has worked with SFE for 5 years, leading the building of her multiple district’s food service programs to improve revenues, client service, and student satisfaction.  Along the way, she also has earned a reputation as being a highly effective leader, creating an engaged, positive team culture through example.

Savannah Box demonstrates a deep loyalty to her district clients and students, and she consistently goes above and beyond performance expectations in “Putting Child Nutrition First.”

Assistant General Manager, SFE

Born and raised in Texas, Patricia started in the food industry at the early age of 15.  Working her way up from fast food, cafeteria worker, head cook, kitchen manager, and even ran her own cottage food baking business from home. Eventually, she became the food service director of Taylor County Juvenile Detention Center. 

SFE reached out to Patricia and she excitedly moved with her husband and two kids, David, age 14, and Autumn, age 11, to Colorado to join Pueblo D60 in November 2022. Before moving, she was very involved with her children and their education as PTA President and Vice President for two years. Despite both kids being deaf in one ear, weekends were spent taking Autumn to competitive cheer competitions and David to his Karate and Krav Maga classes and tournaments. As a family, they are excited about springtime in Colorado, to have a chance to hike in the mountains, and explore the beautiful state of Colorado.