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...
SCHOOL NUTRITION NEWS: What the Ending of the COVID Waivers Will Mean for School Lunch Next Year
Schools across the country aren’t even done with this school year yet, but they are already preparing for the next one. Changes are coming specifically to the school lunch program. Earlier this year, Congress failed to pass an extension of the COVID waivers for the next school year, which could mean many different things for your and your child. “As we transition to regular price meals during the school year, I would imagine our numbers will significantly...
School Nutrition News: D.C.-area students owe nearly half a million in K-12 school lunch debt
WASHINGTON POST: As students in the Washington area went home for winter break, a substantial number were in debt — to the school cafeteria. Students in the Washington area owe nearly half a million dollars so far this school year in “lunch debt,” according to an analysis by The Washington Post. These are K-12 students in public schools who did not have enough money to pay for meals in their school cafeteria, so they racked up...
Chef Jess – Spring Recipe
Scone This recipe can have many variations exchanging the almond extract for vanilla extract and adding other nuts, dried fruit or other types of chips like white chocolate. This makes about 16 scones of medium size depending on how small or large you prefer to make your scones. I often will make “two bites” size scones when preparing for a crowd. Happy Cooking! Ingredients Servings | 6-8 3 cups all-purpose organic flour 1 cup sugar 5 teaspoon baking powder ¾ cup butter ½...
PCS Forms – Success Story
Our Special Diets App facilitates communications between doctors, nurses, dietitians, managers and staff. ...
Enrollment for Summer Feeding
Streamline your SFSP Sign-up process for district and community programs. ...
Pictures from ANC 2016
As usual the PCS Booth at ANC was a lively place to be. Seeing old friends and making new ones is always a good time! [gallery columns="2" link="none" ids="5704,5703,5702,5701"] ...
A New Video for the Booth
Every year PCS produces a video to display in the large screens above our booth at the Annual National Conference. And here it is: [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://pcsrcs.com//wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ANC2016VideoV3-1.mp4"][/video]...
Leading the Way – Alternative Serving Sites
PCS has pioneered in Portable Point of Sale....