Karie - We use a company out of New Jersey called PCS. Their website is PCSRCS.com We are a small independent PK-12 school of just over 1000 students on one campus. For a multitude of reasons, the school wanted to move to a cashless system that would allow parents to fund an account that their student's lunches would debit from. We evaluated 3 systems and felt PCS would give us the best results for what we needed (I don't recall what the other 2 systems were). This was about 6 years ago. Their system is very capable for handling everything that a very large school district needs, multiple schools, central office, POS, applications for Free & Reduced Lunches, etc. During the pandemic, they added an ordering system "Order NOW" to their products and we were one of the first schools to use it. Pre-COVID, only our students in Grades 5-12 had lunch accounts. During COVID, we stayed open during the 20-21 school year and parents ordered lunches for their students in PK-Gr 4 and we plated and delivered them to the classrooms for dining. This year grades 1-4 went through the serving line (as in pre-COVID) and our PK-K ordered lunches and ate in their classrooms. Next year, I don't think we'll be ordering lunches in advance any longer. Please let me know if you'd like to have an additional discussion with me on this. Thanks!
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Holly Northern
Technology Director
Summit Country Day School
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-20-2022 03:03 PM
From: Karie Hayes
Subject: Dining Services
Does anyone have helpful information on choosing a new dining service, and one that allows parents to pre-order lunch online(for students going to our satellite campus)?
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Karie Hayes
Director of Technology
The Wheeler School
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