The Future Of School Lunch

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The shift to online systems across ordering platforms has improved restaurant efficiency for both customers and foodservice providers. It is now time to bring that technology to school lunch.

Schools across the country have moved to a school lunch online system to meet the technology demands of today. Traditional school lunch systems are no longer the most effective method for both parents and school lunch managers. Cash and paper order forms that are traditionally used for lunch can easily get lost. For parents, it can be a hassle to regularly fill out forms and be assured that their child will turn in the forms on time to receive lunch. With an online system, parents can order their child’s lunch ahead of time online.

Benefits for Parents

With Hot Lunch, parents can order and pay for their child’s school lunch online. They will browse menus online with detailed nutrition and allergy information. This allows them to make an informed choice about the nutrition that their child receives at school. For parents who are on the go, they can use the Hot Lunch app to make ...
... orders from their phone or tablet. Some parents may have children at multiple schools, if both schools utilize hot lunch, they can make all their orders using the same platform.

Benefits for Food Service Providers

Foodservice providers also benefit from the shift to a school lunch online system. They can use the school lunch online system to track orders and prepare for future orders. Reports will be generated that allow them to plan for the distribution of lunch on that day and for the ordering of new items for future lunches. Accounting reports will also be generated and sent via email to be downloaded in whatever format that best fits your existing accounting system. Managers that work at multiple schools can streamline decisions made on the website across all schools at one time. They can also make specific changes for each school as necessary, having the ability to add logos and school colors to each website. Managers benefit from being able to use hot lunch to communicate with parents about upcoming events.

Social Distance Approved

Maintaining social distancing guidelines has been a challenge for many foodservice providers. Schools have shifted to a classroom-based lunch distribution system to deliver lunches to students in their classrooms. This avoids crowded cafeterias and long lunch lines. Hot Lunch can generate automated reports to assist in a classroom-based distribution system. With the online system, foodservice providers can save hours of manually organizing lunches by classroom. When these reports are automated, food service providers can spend less time worrying about distributing lunch and focus on providing excellent service.

Bringing your school lunch online is easy with Hot Lunch. Visit our website, Hot Lunch to learn more about the benefits of implementing an online system. For parents, food service providers, and help improve the safety of students. Contact us at sales@hotlunch.com to get a demo or to learn more about the benefits of implementing an online school lunch system.