TrakNOW and the Supply Chain
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...
The “New Normal” for K-12 Nutrition Technology
CDC's "Considerations for Schools" document outlines how to help protect students, teachers, administrators and staff while slowing the spread of COVID-19. School nutrition technology companies are simultaneously focused on meeting school's emergency needs, as well as shifting development priorities to providing solutions for opening this Fall. The normally bustling cafeteria line and lunch room may become COVID quite. Converting lunchrooms into classrooms is being discussed along with staggered and split schedules or alternating days for school site...
School Lunch Shaming Now Illegal in CA
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] (CNN) California just took a step toward making its school environments a little more inclusive and eliminating school lunch shaming. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a new piece of legislation that guarantees all students will receive lunch even if their parents or guardians have not paid their meal fees. The bill, authored by state Sen. Robert Hertzberg, says students shouldn't be denied a meal of their choice because of unpaid fees. It also ensures "that the...