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Food Services Program

 Glenwood Community School District provides a computerized system that allows participants to deposit money into a Food Service account from which they may draw to purchase lunch, breakfast, and ala carte items using a Personal Identification Number (PIN).  The Food Services Program will issue each student and school staff a PIN number to use when purchasing meals or other food items.  Students are assigned a PIN when they start school, and they will keep the same PIN through graduation, unless there is a reason to change the number.  Please deposit money into your student’s account at registration or by using EZSchoolPay.com online.  Money left in accounts at the end of the year will stay in your student’s account unless we receive a written request for a refund from the parent or guardian.  

Food Services must collect money for accounts in the early part of the school day.  Due to time constraints during the lunch service time, we cannot accept money for deposit in the lunch line.  Meals must be paid for in advance; therefore, money needs to be put into the account before purchasing can begin.

Reminder notes will be printed twice weekly (usually Tuesdays and Thursdays) at Northeast Elementary and West Elementary schools.  Please contact your student’s teacher if you do not receive the reminder notes.  Reminders start when an account falls to $10.00 and continues until the -$10.00 limit.  Middle School and High School students are told in the line what their balance is.  We do not send reminders home at this age level.  If it becomes necessary to charge meal fees, the maximum negative amount allowed will be -$10.00.  At that point, students will be expected to bring a cold lunch and to eat breakfast at home until the situation can be resolved.  There is no charging of ala carte items or extra milks.

We are now offering EZSchoolPay.com for parents to make pre-payments into their child’s account anytime using Visa, Discover, or MasterCard (credit or debit).  Parents can also monitor their child’s meal account balance and transactions online.  If you wish to use this service, you may sign up at www.ezschoolpay.com.  We also have a new Mealtracker program which will allow parents to have a family account for all siblings in the district.  Please instruct the food service clerk at any one of your children’s schools if you would like to have a family shared account.

The Food Service Clerk at your child’s school or EZSchoolPay.com can provide you with a printout of your student’s account.  It will show when money was deposited, when money was deducted and what was purchased from the account.  Parents need to notify the clerk if they would like to “block” a student from receiving breakfast or ala carte items.  If you have additional questions about your food service account, contact the clerk between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and after 1:00 p.m. 

Students approved for FREE meals may eat both breakfast and lunch at no cost.  Students approved for REDUCED priced meals may purchase breakfast at a cost of $.30 and lunch at a cost of $.40 daily.  FREE and REDUCED applications must be filled out (renewed) each school year.  Free and reduced approved students and full paying students may purchase milk for $.30 to go with a sack lunch, but this is not a part of the Free and Reduced meals program.  There must be money in the account to purchase milk for a sack lunch.  We ask that parents not send bottled/canned soda with sack lunches. 

We encourage family members to come share lunch with the students.  We request that guests coming to eat with their student notify the kitchen before 9:00 a.m.  Parents may deduct the cost of their meal from their student’s account or bring correct change to pay in cash.  We request that guests do not bring “outside restaurant” food to the cafeteria. 

Meal prices are as follows for the 2010-11 school year:

If you have any questions regarding the Food Services Department or your child’s account, you may contact the Food Services office at 527-5029.

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07/14/10

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