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Oct
School meal debt is accruing quickly in some Michigan districts, which have returned to charging for meals following the expiration of federal waivers, says Mindy Grant, senior program manager for No Kid Hungry Michigan.
Some districts have returned to providing alternative meals, including in Livonia, where students who are unable to pay are allowed to charge as many as four meals before they are served an alternative meal of graham crackers, string cheese, milk, a vegetable and fruit.
Full Story: Detroit Free Press
Oct
TrakNOW and the Supply Chain
Gabe Aiello 0 comments Uncategorized
TrakNOW Nutrition and Inventory provides specialized search and replace workflows facilitating last minute menu and order/receive changes, even across hundreds of school cafeterias, including warehouses and central kitchens.
Supply chain issues are just a fact of life in school food service. However, since the Pandemic the supply chain woes have increased drastically. In the best of times, our TrakNOW Menu Planning, Nutrition, and Inventory software provides workflows that embody “best practices” in avoiding non-deliverables, shortages, and last-minute menu changes. But in these times, post-COVID, TrakNOW helps you to make changes quickly and efficiently when products, either ingredients, menu items, or related supplies, are not deliverable or require substitution.
When products that have been menued and ordered will not be delivered or will be substituted with another product, customers use the TrakNOW Bulk Change features. The following features can help to easily update menus and orders:
Menu Related Bulk Change Features: Allow district users to make changes to one or multiple sites on current or future days menus. Central Kitchen users also have access to the Bulk Change utility to make changes to their own menus. Changes that can be made include: Adding or replacing Items, Recipes and Patterns; Deleting Items, Recipes, Patterns, Menus, and Menu Cycles for date ranges.
For more permanent/long term changes for menus that have not yet been applied to Site Production, a special utility allows District and Supervisor users to add, delete and replace menu items for selected menus and patterns.
Item Cross Reference and Recipe Cross Reference Reports help pinpoint where selected items/recipes exist within recipes, patterns, menu templates, and menus in Site Production to assist with Bulk Changes.
Order Related Bulk Change Features: Allow district, warehouse and central kitchen users to make changes to the following order documents. Changes consist of adding, zeroing out or replacing items on Approved, Draft, and Waiting-to-be-Received Purchase Orders, On-Order Supply Requestions, and Transfers in Draft and Waiting-to-be-Received.
Learn more – Nutrition-Inventory – School Lunch POS | K-12 School Nutrition Software
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