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Lauren Woodard never planned on a career in district nutrition. When her mother, who worked in the school nutrition department at Virginia Beach City Public Schools, encouraged her to sign up as a substitute, Lauren wasn't sold. "At the time, I thought I was way too cool to be a 'lunch lady'!" Lauren said. Today, Lauren is a Regional Account Executive at Cybersoft Technologies, but that temporary gig became the foundation of her career. Like many members of our team, she spen

In our last post, we talked about the clipboard by the serving line: the missing sheets, the Salsa, the handwriting nobody can read, and the dreaded '100, 100, 100' guess. Every one of those problems comes back to the same root cause. Production records are living on paper, cut off from everything else in your program. SchoolCafé was built to fix exactly that. SchoolCafé is a full suite school nutrition software platform, and the SchoolCafé Back Office is where your menu plan

Ask anyone who has spent real time in a school kitchen about production records, and you'll get a knowing look. There's the clipboard hanging by the serving line. The laminated sheet that's been photocopied so many times that the header is barely legible. The corner that somehow ends up with a smear of Salsa every single Taco Tuesday. It's not glamorous paperwork, but it may be some of the most important paperwork happening anywhere in your nutrition program. Here's the thi

We hear it time and time again: “We’re looking for school nutrition systems that speak to one another.” School nutrition professionals yearn for efficiency—for an all-in-one solution that connects Menu Planning, Production, Inventory, and more. After years of disjointed operations, Adams 12 Five Star Schools was just one of many districts ready to make the switch to transform school lunch. Transforming School Lunch With SchoolCafé Previously, Adams 12 was using paper producti

How SchoolCafé's USDA-Approved Menu Planning Software Connects Your Whole Program If you have been following us, you know we have talked about everything menu planning teams are up against: thin reimbursement dollars, a scratch-cooking push that has to compete with DoorDash, compliance rules that don't always match what a twelve-year-old wants on their tray, and software that can't keep up when the delivery truck shows up short. None of those problems get solved by a prettier

What School Nutrition Teams Are Really Up Against Ask any school nutrition director what keeps them up at night, and they'd likely say school lunch menu planning — after all, it is rarely just about picking entrées for next Tuesday. It's a daily balancing act between the USDA rulebook, a reimbursement rate that hasn't kept pace with grocery prices, a cafeteria line of kids who've been raised on DoorDash, and a staff that may or may not feel confident handling raw chicken. Tha