Lunch Forms
Weekly menus, public requests, family orders, payments and kitchen printing.
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30 videos
Admin · 16 sec
Find your way around Lunch Forms
Locate daily meal work, menus, orders and reports from the Lunch Forms landing page.
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Publish a draft menu
Review a saved menu and confirm when families can begin ordering.
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Attach a menu PDF or picture
Add a menu document for families to view alongside the meal choices.
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Copy a menu to another week
Reuse meals in a new draft without copying family orders.
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Set a daily ordering window
Use one organization-wide opening and closing schedule for each meal day.
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Use each menu’s own deadline
Switch ordering rules back to the deadline saved on each menu.
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Set a student’s daily meal limit
Set the default maximum number of servings each student may order per day.
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Add a meal limit for exam week
Apply a temporary daily allowance to a named date range.
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Read the Meals Dashboard
Filter meal activity and distinguish quantities, money received and balances owed.
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Find your meal history and bills
Review a child’s meals, payment status and order details from Lunch Forms.
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Order a meal for your child
Choose a child, day and meal, then review the confirmed order and bill.
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Change an unpaid meal quantity
Adjust the servings on an order you own while family changes are allowed.
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Cancel an unpaid meal
Confirm a permitted cancellation and check the order and bill afterward.
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Order your own student meal
Place a meal order from an eligible student account.
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Change a student’s ordered meal
Correct an ordinary unpaid order and preserve the reason in its history.
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Record cash for meal bills
Record cash received and verify which meals the payment covers.
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Record extra meals already sold
Enter food already distributed, with cash collected or a new meal bill for each student.
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Set shared meal capacity
Set how many servings a meal service can accept across programs.
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Close a menu to family ordering
Stop family ordering while keeping existing meals and bills.
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Reopen a closed menu
Restore publication for a manually closed menu and check which days can accept orders.
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Choose serving-sheet options
Review the day, students, programs and layout before creating the kitchen PDF.
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Find a student’s meal orders
Search by student or parent and inspect the right date, status and payment scope.
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Download the monthly meal CSV
Export a complete month and understand how its scope differs from current filters.
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Print the daily serving sheet
Create and inspect the PDF used to distribute meals by program and student.
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Submit a public lunch request
Use the school’s no-login form to request meals, then keep the private receipt for the review result.
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Approve a public lunch request
Review the requested student and meals, choose the account to bill and confirm the orders.
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Enable Lunch Forms for a program
Turn on Lunch Forms for a program from Settings and confirm the saved selection.
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Archive an unused lunch draft
Remove an empty draft from the active menu list through the archive confirmation.
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Review a paid extra meal in family history
Find a paid extra meal, inspect its office history and see where to request a correction.
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Add a future meal order for a family
Find a student, select tomorrow’s meal and leave the order unpaid on the family bill.
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