I’m here because I want to…
Boost My Financial Success
Increase My Program Participation
Optimize Operational Processes
Ensure Program Quality & Compliance
Boost My Financial Success
Have you ever asked yourself…
Is there a way to know where my district stands financially without waiting until month end or year end, when it’s too late to make impactful changes?
What is contributing to my profitability or lack thereof? Is it a site, menu items, menu mix, waste?
How can I easily see my average cost/revenue/profit per meal?
Our Ecosystem of Solutions can help you…
- Boost profitability of your program to purposefully reinvest in itÂ
- Strategically plan staff raises, marketing, administrative support, new equipment, and more!
- Boldly choose higher quality (and cost) menu itemsÂ
- Set, monitor, and communicate meal cost and revenue targets for your team
- Be prepared for conversations and presentations to administrators or school board
- Gather info quickly for required reports and processes:
– Annual Financial Report (AFR)
– Non-Program Foods Tool
– Paid Meal Equity
Increase My Program Participation
Have you ever asked yourself…
I know how to calculate participation, but it takes so long! Is there a better way?
How do I quickly identify which menu cycle days and items are dragging participation down?
How can I quickly know whether new menu items are successful? I really want to do some exciting customizable bar concepts, but I don’t have a great way to measure their success.
Our Ecosystem of Solutions can help you…
- Quickly identify which menu items and menu pairings increase or decrease participation
- Understand whether popular menu items are profitable or are dragging down profitability (and can be adjusted)
- Optimize entrée placement on menus so that most popular aren’t competing against one another
- Try new menu items and monitor successÂ
- Identify operational issues that hinder participation (running out of food, not following recipe or serving instructions)
- Multiple site oversight & comparison
- Empower Managers with the detailed historical information necessary for proper planning
- Gain more buy-in from parents, teachers & students by responding to unpopular days more quickly
Optimize My Operational Processes
Have you ever asked yourself…
If I had more objective information available to my team, would we all gain more trust and confidence in each other’s decisions?
Do the kids really not that like menu item? Can we make the menu meeting less awkward with some objective information please?
Am I the only one practically making up vendor forecasts these days or is there actual data I can send them? There has to be an easier way.
How can I support my managers by taking time and guesswork out of planning and production decisions?
Our Ecosystem of Solutions can help you…
- Foster team communication, trust, and transparency surrounding menu and operations
- Streamline decision-making at all levels, minimizing paperwork and spreadsheets
- Quicker & more accurate forecasting
- Prepare user-friendly production records that your team DOESN’T hate
- Identify operational issues that hinder participation:
– Running out of food
– Lack of information needed for batch cooking
– Too much waste leading to overuse of lesser quality leftovers
– Identify yield issues in recipes
– Not following presentation or serving instructions
Ensure Program Quality & Compliance
Have you ever asked yourself…
Are my production records being completed accurately and on-time? How can I possibly review thousands of production records effecively?
How do I know if my teams are following the planned menu? Are we serving enough fruits and vegetables?
Is what I think is happening actually happening, in terms of the quality of service we are providing to our students?
Our Ecosystem of Solutions can help you…
- Keep accurate production records easily with built-in validations
- Review production records effectively and efficiently with alerts to inaccuracies and incompletion
- Engineer menus by using weighted historic sales to optimize menu items and days to meet sodium and other nutrition requirements
- Identify red flags or potential issues in the field, driving site visits
- Easily produce required production records for Administrative Review
- Forecasting & production planning
- Identify whether served menus are meeting sodium and calorie requirements in real life
- Minimize waste and avoid overproduction
- Build compliant menus that are also financially sound and realistic from a labor perspective
