Why Switch to
School Lunch?
Online
Schools across North America are moving to an online system to
accommodate their hot lunches for school. The traditional methods
of paying, ordering, and managing school lunches no longer meet
the demands of today. With the traditional methods of school lunch,
parents must send their child to school with paper order forms and
cash. Both can easily get misplaced on the way to school. Plus, it
can be hard for school lunch managers to keep track of these
papers for the many schools they work with. Hot Lunch provides an
online system for ordering and managing hot lunches for school.
Benefits for Parents
Parents will order their students’ hot lunches for school on the hot
lunch mobile app or website. They can browse through detailed
menus with nutritional and allergy information to choose the best
option for their child’s needs. These menus empower parents to
have greater control of the lunches that their child receives at
school. Once they have selected their lunch choice, they order and
pay online. The payments are made securely and can be made
ahead of time. Parents prefer this online system to the traditional
models because they are able to order their child’s lunch from
anywhere.
Benefits for Managers
School lunch managers utilize the hotlunch.com online system to
track orders that are coming in through the system. Reports will
automatically be generated to help them understand what needs to
be ordered ahead of time to prepare the next week of lunches. In
addition to order reports, accounting reports will be sent via email
to be downloaded. They are made to be compliant with your
existing accounting system. For managers that work with multiple
schools, they can use one system to streamline the work. They can
make decisions for every school at the same time or make
individual updates for each school. Managers can also add logos
and theme colors to the online ordering system. Managers can also
send messages to parents using the app to share any necessary
updates regarding the hot lunches for schools.
Social Distance Compliant
Administrators have been faced with the challenge of keeping up
their school lunch system while maintaining social distancing
guidelines. Hot Lunch accommodates classroom-based
distribution. The system can help automatically sort students by
their classroom so that their lunch choice can be delivered directly
to their classroom, avoiding crowded cafeterias and lunch lines.
This saves administrators time and money.
Hot Lunch can help bring your hot lunches for school into the 21st
century. Modernizing your school lunch program can benefit
parents, food service providers, and help improve the safety of
students. Contact us at sales@hotlunch.com to get a demo or visit
https://hotlunch.com learn more about the benefits of implementing
an online school lunch system.