{"id":15617,"date":"2025-09-17T06:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:56:19","slug":"2025-staff-spotlight-robert-segundo-school-food-services-supervisor-kaua%ca%bbi-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/2025-staff-spotlight-robert-segundo-school-food-services-supervisor-kaua%ca%bbi-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Spotlight: Robert Segundo, School Food Services Supervisor (Kaua\u02bbi District)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Segundo<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Po\u02bbo inoa: <\/strong>School Lunch Services Supervisor (Kaua\u02bbi District)
Paena hana: <\/strong>Ke kula waena o Kamakahelei Alii
N\u0101 makahiki ma HIDOE: <\/strong>2.5
N\u0101 makahiki ma ke k\u016blana: <\/strong>2.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before joining HIDOE, Robert built a career in culinary and hospitality, starting with the Marriott Corp. on Kaua\u02bbi and later holding leadership roles in Seattle, San Diego and Palo Alto with organizations like Bon App\u00e9tit, Wolfgang Puck and Compass Group. His work took him to high-profile accounts including Google HQ, LinkedIn HQ, and the MET museum in New York. After decades in catering and events, he pivoted to school food services, bringing his expertise back home to serve Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N: E wehewehe p\u014dkole i k\u0101u ala \u02bboihana.<\/strong>
A:<\/strong> I attended Kapi\u02bbolani Community College and was involved in their culinary program. There, I met my mentor, Milton Arellano, who was the executive chef at First Hawaiian Bank and graciously took me under his wing. He\u2019d invite me to do special events at the bank and at other locations. He showed me more than cooking and introduced me to the world of special events and front-of-the-house service. This became my niche and career path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: He aha k\u0101u mau hana mua?<\/strong>
A:<\/strong> My primary duty is to ensure that schools are implementing their meal program and are in compliance with federal, state and local child nutrition programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N: Pehea \u02bboe i komo ai i k\u0113ia kuleana?<\/strong>
A:<\/strong> I wanted to pivot back into school and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u012bnau: \u02bbO ka m\u0101hele punahele e pili ana i ka hana?<\/strong>
A: <\/strong>Going to the different schools and interacting with the staff and students<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u012bnau: \u02bbO ka hapa nui loa e pili ana i k\u0101u k\u016blana?<\/strong>
A: <\/strong>One of the most challenging parts of this role is being on a neighbor island, where everything is shipped. Delays can happen and that causes a lot of things to happen on the operation side of things. I\u2019m very fortunate that the school food services managers on Kaua\u2018i are experienced enough to make changes to ensure proper meals are still being provided to the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u012bnau: Pehea k\u0101u kuleana e k\u0101ko\u02bbo ai i ka holomua haum\u0101na?<\/strong>
A:<\/strong> Ensuring students have a balanced and nutritional meal and don\u2019t miss a meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u012bnau: He aha k\u0101u \u02bb\u014dlelo a\u02bbo no ka po\u02bbe e no\u02bbono\u02bbo nei i k\u0113ia k\u016blana?<\/strong>
A:<\/strong> In this position, you need multiple things aside from a food services background. You will need a little bit of management, nutrition regulations, budgeting, being a flexible problem-solver and a team leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: Fun fact?<\/strong>
A: <\/strong>I have worked in 27 different states!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Segundo Title: School Lunch Services Supervisor (Kaua\u02bbi District)Job site: Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle SchoolYears in the HIDOE: 2.5Years in the position: 2.5 Before joining HIDOE, Robert built a career in culinary and hospitality, starting with the Marriott Corp. on Kaua\u02bbi and later holding leadership roles in Seattle, San Diego and Palo Alto with organizations like […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"16898,10115,13989,10495,14281,14121","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","wp_popup_display_lightbox":0,"wp_popup_suppress":"","wp_popup_trigger":"","wp_popup_trigger_amount":0,"wp_popup_disable_on_mobile":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoohaaheo","category-news","category-staff-spotlight"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":22,"label":"Ho\u2018oha\u2018aheo"},{"value":21,"label":"News"},{"value":58,"label":"Staff Spotlight"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kim Yuen","author_link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/author\/kimberly-yuenk12-hi-us\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":22,"name":"Ho\u2018oha\u2018aheo","slug":"hoohaaheo","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":22,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":76,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":22,"category_count":76,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Ho\u2018oha\u2018aheo","category_nicename":"hoohaaheo","category_parent":0},{"term_id":21,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":21,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":319,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":21,"category_count":319,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0},{"term_id":58,"name":"Staff Spotlight","slug":"staff-spotlight","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":58,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":22,"count":30,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":58,"category_count":30,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Staff Spotlight","category_nicename":"staff-spotlight","category_parent":22}],"tag_info":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 13:48:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}