The Merchandising Food Service Training Manual contains 12 lessons and 2 appendixes. Class activities and handouts are interspersed among techniques for selling and merchandising meals, information about life value roles and how food participants may improve public images, material about customers' backgrounds and attitudes, methods of competitors for the children's market, low cost ideas for merchandising child nutrition programs, long-term merchandising plans, merchandising for special days and weeks, and finally, a summary and progress tests. (KS)