Walden School Lunch Program 2012

We are pleased to announce that Shelbi Park will be returning to Walden as to administer our new school lunch program effective Jan. 3, 2012. We are excited to have Shelbi back with us and look forward to enjoying her healthy, tasty lunches! We appreciate your patience as we transition to our new program. If you have any questions regarding balances etc. from last year please contact Shelbi or What’s 4 Lunch directly as we do not have any of these records at Walden School. Below you will find Lunch Prices, Policies and Procedures.

Prices

Grade Price Per Lunch 25 punch ticket

K-5th	$2.25	$56.25
6-12th	$2.75	$68.75
Faculty/Staff	$2.75	$68.75
Reduced	$1.00	$25.00

Reduced Lunches

Reduced price ($1.00 per student per lunch) are available students who qualify for a full fee waivers according to the fee waiver guidelines distributed at the beginning of the school year. You must fill out the application for reduced lunch form attached to this email as well as provide income verification (we can look this up if you provided it in Sept.) in order to be given the reduced rate. Please be patient with us it may take us a few days to get applications for reduced lunch processed. Once you have turned in your paperwork and have been notified that your child has been approved for reduced lunch you can purchase a 25 punch pass for the reduced price.

POLICIES & PROCEDURES

Payment

You may purchase 25 punch tickets from Hannah in the main office or from Sharon. We accept cash, check or charge (Mastercard or Visa with a 3% service charge fee). Partial tickets will not be sold however, we understand that sometimes emergencies happen and students may purchase individual lunches with cash. Please help us to keep administrative costs down by only sending cash for individual lunches in emergency situations.

Pre-Ordering

It is not necessary to pre-order lunches through an electronic system. If your child has a ticket with punches left on it there will be lunch provided for them. Tickets will remain at school in a safe location and will never be given to students.

Forgotten Lunches/Unpaid Meals

In the event that your child comes to school without a lunch and does not have a lunch ticket or cash for lunch your child will be asked to call home and have a lunch brought to them or purchase a ticket over the phone. We are not in a position to provide lunches on credit. However, in the extremely unlikely event that you are unreachable we will not allow a student to go hungry. In these emergency situations you will be expected to pay for the emergency lunch the following day.

Notifications

We will make every effort possible to notify parents via email when your student has less than 5 punches left on their ticket. However, ultimately it is your responsibility to keep track of your students lunch account status. An easy way to do this is to remember that one ticket lasts about 1 month. If you ever have any questions about your child’s lunch account please feel free to contact Sharon via email at sharonbeecroft@gmail.com.

Vegetarian Lunches

Vegetarian options will be available on a daily basis.

Menus

Menus will be linked on the school website at www.waldenschool.us. If you have comments or suggestions for the menu please contact Diana or Sharon. Please be patient this first week as we work out the kinks in our new program. We will have a January menu posted as soon as possible.

If you have any questions or concerns about our new lunch program please contact Sharon or Diana.

Thank You,

Sharon Beecroft

Business Manager

Walden School of Liberal Arts