Serve hot lunch to your schools, the simple way

• Simple lunch ordering on desktops, laptops, and mobile
• Powerful customized reporting
• Family Dashboard
• Accept credit cards, checks, cash, or external billing
• Flexible menu pricing
• Customized On-screen Messages and FAQs
• Customizable admin security
• Time Travel audit trail
• Comprehensive communication system
• Easily handle field trips
• Quick credits for school closings
• 100% Money-back guarantee

Nobody should have to read a page full of instructions just to order lunch. They shouldn't have to wait until they get home to their computer, when they already have a phone in their pocket. They shouldn't even have to install a special app.

Lunch Works lets everybody order lunch quickly and easily on any phone , tablet, or computer.

When you do the same thing, day in and day out, every week, month after month for years in a row, "good enough" is not good enough. The reports you depend on should be perfectly tailored to your needs.

Fortunately, our reporting system is infinitely customizable. If our built-in reports aren't perfect for you, we'll tailor them until they are.

We have a variety of screens that offer a mountain of useful information, but why should parents have to dig through it all every time when their questions are largely predictable?

Our family dashboard consolidates all of the most commonly needed information into a single screen that they see as soon as they log in. The dashboard also offers many quick links for those times when they need to dig a little deeper.

Online payments save a lot of time and hassle. You don't have to deal with a stack of checks every week. You don't have to follow up with delinquent parents. Once you've set up the payment processor and connected it to Lunch Works, the money just starts appearing in your bank account.

That convenience comes at a cost, however. Payment processors often charge double or triple as much as Lunch Works does. You can pass that cost on to the families, of course, but sometimes it's best to just avoid the cost altogether. In those cases, you can stick to whatever offline payment methods work best for you. You'll have a little bit of legwork to log those payments in Lunch Works, but we'll make it as painless as possible. Once they've been logged into Lunch Works, you can use our many accounts receivable features to simplify the rest of the process.

A one-size-fits-all price is great when it works out, but life is rarely so simple.

You probably offer need-based discounts to students for free and reduced meals. You may offer discounts to your employees or you may charge them more for a larger portion size. You might charge less for the smaller portions you serve to kindergartners or maybe you let everybody choose their preferred portion size at the appropriate price.

No matter how complicated your pricing scheme, we have have the flexibility to handle it smoothly for you.

You may be surprised to hear that it isn't very hard to make complicated software. The hard part is hiding all of that complexity in a way that's easy to understand and use. For that reason, we put most of our effort into making the system so intuitive that parents get the answers they need before they've even asked the questions. Why make them read a page of instructions when that same information can be sprinkled throughout the system in the places where they're likely to need it?

We do this for you with a lot of key information ℹ️ and we also give you the ability to fill in any gaps. You can add custom messages to a number of important screens and you can create an entire library of FAQs if you need to. These finer points make Lunch Works a better experience for both you and the families.

As the old adage goes, "loose lips sink ships" and loose security can be just as troubling. You can avoid a lot of problems by giving each administrator access to only to the screens they need to do their jobs. No more, no less.

Lunch Works comes with a variety of pre-defined administrator roles that makes it easy for you to limit each administrator to the appropriate screens. If you want to fine-tune things further, you can edit the roles or even create your own.

In any organization, there are times when you need to go back in time to see things as they used to be. We maintain a full audit trail for you so you can answer any questions that might arise, even if they come up years later and are very specific.

With a couple clicks of your mouse you can rewind the clock and run any of your reports as if you were a time traveler.

Managing a lunch program for hundreds of students is no small task and handling the food is just the beginning. You'll need to communicate with all of those families periodically throughout the year. Sometimes you'll send the message out to everybody, sometimes you'll send it to certain groups, and sometimes you'll send it to a single family. Sometimes it'll be urgent and other times it can wait until the next time they log in.

Whatever the circumstances, Lunch Works has the built-in communication tools to help you get the word out quickly and efficiently.

Field trips can really mess up your lunch plans, especially when you find out about them after you've posted the menu. Fortunately, they're pretty easy to handle with Lunch Works

If you know about the trip in advance, you can block the affected students from ordering on that day. If you find out about it after the orders have been placed, you can quickly credit the affected students. Either way, it just takes a few clicks to keep things organized.

School Closings are basically field trips ℹ️ that affect the entire school. With the wrong system, it's a major headache, but it's a easy with Lunch Works. It only takes a few clicks to issue all of the appropriate credits.

We're very proud of our system and we're pretty sure you'll like it too. But if that doesn't happen for some reason, we don't want to keep your money. We only want happy customers! So, if at any point before the start of your second school year with us, you decide to stop using our service, we will refund everything that you've paid us. We'll even help you select a replacement service and migrate your data. Click here for more details.

Note to parents: This only applies to the fees that the schools pay to us for the use of our software. We have no control over any of the food.