The school I work at currently allows children to choose each day if they want a school meal or a packed lunch. As we have plenty of history we can anticipate what demand is likely to be on any given day in the 3 week menu cycle and can cope with minor flucuations.
With the introduction of free meals for infants in September we have no way of knowing what demand will be from day to day and will need a system of pre ordering so we know how much food to order each week. (We have surveyed parents but obviously only a percentage replied and what they say now and what they do in September will probably be different)
From what I've read on here I know lots of schools already expect you to pre order meals so I would welcome any suggestions of systems that work (or not) that we could consider introducing.
It will be hard for parents who have always been used to the flexibility we have offered up to now so I would really appreciate your help.
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School Meals - do you have to order?
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dajen · 01/05/2014 17:38
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