{"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\/vi\/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

Ti\u00eau \u0111\u1ec1: <\/strong>School Lunch Services Supervisor (Kaua\u02bbi District)
\u0110\u1ecba \u0111i\u1ec3m l\u00e0m vi\u1ec7c: <\/strong>Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School
S\u1ed1 n\u0103m trong HIDOE: <\/strong>2.5
S\u1ed1 n\u0103m gi\u1eef ch\u1ee9c v\u1ee5: <\/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

H: H\u00e3y m\u00f4 t\u1ea3 ng\u1eafn g\u1ecdn con \u0111\u01b0\u1eddng s\u1ef1 nghi\u1ec7p c\u1ee7a b\u1ea1n.<\/strong>
M\u1ed8T:<\/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

H: Nhi\u1ec7m v\u1ee5 ch\u00ednh c\u1ee7a b\u1ea1n l\u00e0 g\u00ec?<\/strong>
M\u1ed8T:<\/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

H: B\u1ea1n \u0111\u00e3 v\u00e0o vai n\u00e0y nh\u01b0 th\u1ebf n\u00e0o?<\/strong>
M\u1ed8T:<\/strong> I wanted to pivot back into school and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H: Ph\u1ea7n y\u00eau th\u00edch nh\u1ea5t trong c\u00f4ng vi\u1ec7c n\u00e0y l\u00e0 g\u00ec?<\/strong>
M\u1ed8T: <\/strong>Going to the different schools and interacting with the staff and students<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H: Ph\u1ea7n kh\u00f3 kh\u0103n nh\u1ea5t trong c\u00f4ng vi\u1ec7c c\u1ee7a b\u1ea1n l\u00e0 g\u00ec?<\/strong>
M\u1ed8T: <\/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

H: Vai tr\u00f2 c\u1ee7a b\u1ea1n h\u1ed7 tr\u1ee3 s\u1ef1 th\u00e0nh c\u00f4ng c\u1ee7a sinh vi\u00ean nh\u01b0 th\u1ebf n\u00e0o?<\/strong>
M\u1ed8T:<\/strong> Ensuring students have a balanced and nutritional meal and don\u2019t miss a meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H: B\u1ea1n c\u00f3 l\u1eddi khuy\u00ean n\u00e0o cho nh\u1eefng ng\u01b0\u1eddi \u0111ang c\u00e2n nh\u1eafc v\u1ecb tr\u00ed n\u00e0y kh\u00f4ng?<\/strong>
M\u1ed8T:<\/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>
M\u1ed8T: <\/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\/vi\/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":67,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":22,"category_count":67,"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":305,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":21,"category_count":305,"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":28,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":58,"category_count":28,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Staff Spotlight","category_nicename":"staff-spotlight","category_parent":22}],"tag_info":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 16:33:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}