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Jul
Betty Zimmerman, Senior TrakNOW Implementation Specialist
Congratulations Betty on 8 successful and productive years with PCS!
Prior to joining us, Betty had extensive experience as a school cafeteria manger and supervisor in a district with both warehouse, central kitchen, and bakery facilities. Betty then provided food service IT training and support for PCS products in her district, which made joining PCS a natural next step when management changed at her district. As a Sr. Implementation Specialist, Betty has brought several large districts (and many smaller ones) online with fully integrated Nutrition, Production, Inventory, and Ordering, plus interfaces with US FOODS, Sysco, Gordon, Lawson, and many others. Betty has a great rapport with her customers and has shown continuing dedication to the reliability of the TrakNOW product line through her quality assurance activities, participating in extensive testing of every feature and function before it is released.
Here is what one of Betty’s customers had to say, …
“Betty, you are one of the persons I know who has the highest customer service skills. You are awesome. Thanks for all your help and for always being willing to support our district’s needs.”
Sebasthian Varas
Nutrition Services Director
Canyons School District
Jul
In the near future, TrakNOW will be releasing its annual USDA Child Nutrition (CN)Database version update.
This release will include:
- CN Items updated to the most current version, CN18.
- The addition of sugar as a nutrient field as well as a field for % Weight from Total Sugar will be included on the nutrition tab of Local and CN items and all nutrition reports.
- Modifications to Production Records to better accommodate the identification of menu servings offered for students from servings offered for adults and a la carte.
- The Food Based Menu Planning Compliance report meets the July 1, 2014 standard that require 100% of grain items served be Whole Grain Rich.
Full details on all improvements will be provided in the release notes and release webinar.
Jul
For those looking for something more than posting PDF’s of menu, recipes and nutrition on the web for parents and nurses, School Menu has a solution. School Menu does the set up and processing of your menus and posts your finished documents, with nutrition, for interactive display on the web. Changes and updates are processed quickly and efficiently for update to the web. Multiple languages are supported, as well.
TrakNOW customers can export menus or menu items, and other customers can submit their menus in any format from any software program.
Schoolmenu.com has a long search history that makes it easy for parents to search on the internet, as opposed to trying to find the information buried somewhere on the district’s web site.
Schoolmenu.com includes easy access to wellness information for students and their families (including content from Fruits & Veggies — More Matters) and an opportunity for parents to opt-in for email reminders to check the upcoming week’s menu, plus an optimized mobile site that “right sizes” the display for any phone. And they can help with and/or integrate with digital signage solutions as well.
SchoolMenu can be your media and communications platform to make your menu listings and nutritional information more available to your families at a very reasonable cost.
Contact Gabe Aiello, Director of Product and Business Development, for more information [email protected]
Apr
YumYummi
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EMPOWERING SCHOOL DISTRICTS, STUDENTS & PARENTS
Putting together menus that are not only delicious and nutritious but also meet Federal and local guidelines is no easy task. And what’s disappointing to many school districts is that print menus don’t do justice to highlighting all the efforts and dedication that go into creating them. In the absence of easy access to print menus, students and parents feel disconnected, leading to decreased participation in School lunch programs. But all of that can change with our super easy App in as little as a week. Thanks to YumYummi Digital School Menus, you now have a platform to:
- Showcase how great your food program is
- Share your story with parents and students
- Dispel negative media perceptions
- And most importantly increase customer participation
For more information see: http://yumyummi.com/
Apr
RocketSCAN
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Rocketscan is a software solution for public school district’s Food Service Departments that automates the processing of free & reduced meal applications. With Rocketscan, school districts scan their meal applications into the software system for automated processing, or receive their applications complete & compliant over the internet with Rocketscan Online.
Food Service Directors across the country have realized the benefits of scanning and receiving F & R meal applications with Rocketscan & Rocketscan Online.
For more information see: http://www.rocketscan.com/
Apr
Nutrislice
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K-12 is where Nutrislice started. Nearly 1 in 5 of all U.S. students have our software at their school. Why? Because we don’t just deliver the industry’s best digital experience for parents and students — we pair it with an unbelievably simple operator experience that makes beautiful digital menus even easier than a traditional PDF menu.
The Parent and Student Experience
Your digital experience says a lot about who you are and how much you care about your customers. Nutrislice provides the industry’s best digital experience by focusing on the customer and innovating on your behalf to create the future of school nutrition. Request a demo today to see the many innovations that are unique to Nutrislice.
The Operator Experience
We make your life easier because we know it’s one of your highest priorities. No technology platform can succeed if it’s not easy to implement. We’d love to connect and share how we can help you streamline your operations and deploy menus and marketing with ease.
For more information see: https://www.nutrislice.com/platform/k-12
Apr
E-Control Systems is the industry leader in complete wireless temperature monitoring systems. The system is designed to meet strict regulatory compliance including The Joint Commission, HACCP, AABB, GLP/GMP, FCC, and FDA. Custom tailored to suit all needs, ECS provides you with a snapshot of your entire operation, which can be viewed 24/7 from any computer, smart phone, or tablet, including an iPhone, iPod, iPad, or Android device. All of your data is stored in our secure private cloud with server redundancy and automated system backups, making sure that your valuable data is never lost. Rest assured at night knowing that we’re there safeguarding your product when you are not.
For more information go to: http://www.econtrolsystems.com/
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