Food Program Procurement: Need to Knows
Calling all schools who contract their meal service to a third party. This message is for you! It’s the time of year to start thinking...
10 Qualities of Running a Smooth School Food Program
It sounds so simple to operate a school food program: feed the students delicious and nutritious foods! As you may or may not know,...
How to prepare for (and Ace) your School Food Admin Review
The Administrative Review, or AR, is the triennial audit that all school meal programs receive from their state agency. This audit is an...
AB-1871 CA Charter schools: free and reduced-price meals.
On September 18, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1871 into law. This bill requires charter schools to serve...
National School Lunch Week is October 15-19!
National School Lunch Week (NSLW) began in 1962 and is a week long celebration filled with events and activities designed to promote and...
STREAMLINING MEAL COUNTING AND PRODUCTION
The school year has started and so has the seemingly insurmountable task of making sure the meal program is in compliance! Compliance can...
Vended Meal Contracts: Managing Food Orders
When you have a vended-meal contract, ordering food for school lunch can be a daunting task. You want to make sure you have enough food,...
What OTHER meal programs should you be running?
You’ve heard of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and probably the School Breakfast Program (SBP), but have you heard of… BIC...
Tips for Back to School Training
As the school year closes, most people might think this is the “slow” time of year working in schools. But behind-the-scenes, we all know...
School Gardens and Grants
Teaching your students more about the Earth and everything it provides for us on a daily basis can foster creative ideas that can help...