We can provide effective school food program management that will contribute to your students’ access to a nutritious breakfast, lunch, snack and/or supper meal. By managing most areas of your school’s nutrition program, School Nutrition Partners can be more effective in creating a program that will be cost effective and efficient. For a small monthly fee a school can benefit from support from experienced and successful consultants who can assure that the program is operating optimally and is compliant with all state and federal regulations.
We measure our success in managing a school’s meal program by these goals below, and for accountability we provide a quarterly report to the school that measures the success of these goals:
- Increasing Student Participation
- Increasing Federal and State Reimbursements
- Reducing Food Waste
- Maximizing Operational Efficiency
- Ensuring compliance
School Nutrition Partners manages an SFA’s food service operations with the following services:
- Creating an operational plan and manual
- Processing FRMP applications and yearly verification process
- Meal count accounting that is used for monthly reimbursement claims
- Monitoring of food waste and advising on ordering
- Drafting invoices for unpaid student meals
- Training SFA staff responsible for management and operational functions
- Managing Point of Sale (POS) equipment and software services
- Provide support related to health inspections
- Monitoring commodities issuances for meal vendors
- Conducting required site monitoring visits
- Providing and organizing information needed for audits
- Applying for CEP or Breakfast after the Bell, if applicable
- Applying for breakfast and/or lunch equipment
- Applying for the food distribution program—USDA and DOD commodity allocations—and working with food vendor to maximize those allocations.
If you want to transform your nutrition program into an effective, efficient and compliant program, but do not want management services, please see our description of an Internal Audit on the Consulting Services page.
Affordability
Many school leaders that are struggling to maintain a cost-effective meal program may feel that they cannot afford to add more costs to their program by hiring a consultant. However, School Nutrition Partners’ main goal is to improve the school’s meal program cashflow. We are able to do this by minimizing food waste and ensuring that commodity allocations are being used and maximized. Often times the money saved through these measures more than covers the monthly management fee.