New Laws Coupled with Unpaid Lunches Require Schools to Think Outside the Box

A recent article from MSN.com highlighted a growing concern for school nutrition departments – thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) of dollars’ worth of unpaid lunches. Columbus City Schools in Ohio, for example, has an estimated $900,000 of unpaid lunch money from their students and loses over $2,500 every day in unpaid lunches. Columbus City Schools and others like it across the country are juggling with recouping loses from unpaid lunches, dealing with budget cuts and adjusting their operations to meet new USDA meal pattern requirements.

But dealing with these changes doesn’t have to be stressful, timely or costly for your district! Meals Plus has all the tools that you need to adhere to new USDA school meal regulations and prevent unpaid lunches with a simple but comprehensive approach to cafeteria management software Walter Campbell of Charleston County School District in South Carolina recently said, “Given Meals Plus reporting and tracking, my food costs have remained stable for the past three years, even in this period of higher food and transportation costs.” With our school cafeteria software, reports are available at the touch of a button, making it easier to manage your food service operations, as well as make audits less stressful.

Contact us today to see how our lunchroom software will minimize your daily tasks!