Lunchtime Solutions is committed to moving your program forward.

• Our focus is meeting expectations for healthy fresh foods, and keeping menus current with today’s food trends.
• Growing program revenues: Increasing revenues is important to meet the financial goals of the district in the face of increasing food and labor costs, and we have a variety of additional menu offerings and menu options.
• Contracting with LSI makes your life easier with our annual planning and budget, financial accountability with guaranteed financial performance, and with our staffing and personnel management for foodservice.
• LSI has an exclusive K-12 focus, and is the right size company to be completely responsive to your needs and concerns regarding your program.

Our mission is to inject continuous excitement into your program through a wide variety of menu choices that meet the changing expectation for fresh and healthy food.

• Healthy food choices for students – An ongoing commitment to keeping your menus contemporary with new recipes for fresh, prepared in the kitchen foods.Unlimited fresh fruits and vegetables are included with every student lunch.

• Chef Prepared Entrees – Featured entrees expose the students to healthy new flavors and tastes, healthy cooking demonstration by a chef, this option can be offered once monthly or twice monthly.
• Campus Speaker – Certified Wellness Coach and R.D.
  
  
  Campus Speaker
  Cindy Gates R.D.,
  L.D.
  

  Cindy Gates, R.D. is passionate when it comes to nutrition, fruits and vegetables and locally grown foods as a key strategy for lifetime wellness. Lunchtime Solutions’ wellness mission of “Growing Healthy Kids” is an excellent fit with her personal mission to improve lives through better nutrition. When Cindy is speaking to students, she has a targeted approach for elementary and high school levels, and links good food decisions today to wellness beyond the K-12 years. When making a campus visit, Cindy can also speak to faculty and staff groups regarding their nutrition and wellness objectives, either in an informal Q&A setting or with a nutrition and wellness presentation.

• Buying locally grown foods – Lunchtime Solutions works with local farms and growers to bring the freshest produce and other foods to the lunch menus. We assist learning about local purchasing through our Farmers Market Selections monthly educational program.

• Fresh Tastes Menu – We have ongoing development of entrees that are a flavor of what students are seeing when they are eating out in casual restaurants. These choices can be offered every day, or as additional entrée options on selected days in the month or menu cycle.
• Crusin’ Café – A meals to go option for students that have to be away from the serving area over the lunch hour.

• SchoolYard Garden – Financial assistance for supporting school grown food and integrating the yield into the meal programs for additional learning.

WasteWisdom™ Reduce Reuse Recycle Program – Lunchtime solutions is committed to minimizing the waste stream from foodservice and will develop solutions for the district to further this objective for sustaining our planet.

• Buy Locally Program – Lunchtime Solutions works with local farms to bring the freshest produce and other foods to the lunch menus. We assist learning about local purchasing through our Farmers Market Selections monthly educational program. Buying locally is good for the community and good for nutrition.
• Food and Healthy Lifestyles Education Programs – Farmers Market Selections features foods that may be seasonal, locally purchased, or unusual for school foodservice, and serving is supported with educational posters and materials that explain to students and families the nutritional benefits of including these foods into lifelong eating habits.

Lunchtime Solutions can work with you to develop a plan for moving your foodservice program ahead, including menu options, program options, a financial assessment and outlining the steps to the contracting process.

Contact us to find out more