Chef Cory Oppold, who won $10,000 as a champion on the Food Network show Chopped, recently collaborated with management company Southwest Food Service Excellence to develop a vegetarian tostada for use in school meal programs.

Southwest Foodservice Excellence (SFE), an Arizona based FM Top 50 contract firm that is one of the largest providers of food management services to the K-12 market, is working with several celebrity chefs in the districts where it operates to enhance next school year’s menu items. One recent result was a collaboration with Chef Cory Oppold, who won $10,000 as a champion on the Food Network show Chopped, to develop a vegetarian tostada dish.