As most schools have resumed in-person instruction, districts now have a new opportunity to maximize participation and recoup depleted funds for their dining programs. Maximizing free meals for students and reimbursements for your district requires learning from what worked in SY20-21, responding to increased expectations around food quality and variety even amid supply chain disruptions, developing innovative new meal service solutions, working out logistics issues, and effectively communicating the programs to all constituents, including administrators, staff members and, especially, parents—no easy feat.
But districts that have consistently taken this approach throughout the pandemic have been able to balance out their costs and generate increased revenue. Find out how in this information-packed guide.
