All student meals will be offered at no charge.

Cafe #110 loves kids and we love school lunch – that’s a winning combination for all of us! We are all really excited to get back to school and to be a part of our student’s educational day.

I oversee the meal planning and organization of Cafe #110. We are a qualified team of dedicated individuals who come to work each day to create the best meals possible for our students. 

Our mission is always focused on: serving wholesome food, cooking from scratch, local sourcing, and sustainability. Recently we were awarded a Farm to School grant that helped us purchase equipment to create a “Dough Shop” where we will make signature items like our own flatbread for pizza, crackers, pitas, sweet roll dough, bagel bites, and more. Mathew Jantz, a Wildcat alumni, is our district “baker.”We will source local grains and sweeteners for our products making them fresh every day for our school meals.

Choice and variety are important to students, so our menu is planned to provide a variety of options.

A “school lunch” is comprised of 5 basic food components: meat/meat alternate; grain; vegetable; fruit; & milk. Students must select at least 3 of these components for a complete meal (1 of which must be a vegetable or fruit). We realize that children can be particular about fruit and vegetable selections and that is why we offer upwards of 4+ choices for students on most days. As a companion to our vegetable selections, we make our own fresh dressings that have been developed with input from students.

As you can see, we work very hard to respond to the various nutritional needs of all students. If your child has an allergy to any food, please contact your school nurse. 

Purchasing a meal is very easy. Every student is assigned a student ID that is tied to his or her meal account. The account is similar to a debit account where purchases are immediately deducted from funds applied to the account. Funds can be added using a credit card, cash, or a check paid to the kitchen cashier or the school office. Online credit and debit payments are available by following the payment links on the District website or by using this link: OmnID.

Cafe #110 participates in the National School Lunch Program, which is a federally funded program that assists in providing nutritionally balanced, low-cost, or free meals to students each day. 

Here are a few more tips to prepare you and your child for activity in our cafeterias this fall:

1. Breakfast will be offered before school at all buildings.
2. Bulk Milk – all kitchens offer 1% white or 1% chocolate milk.
3. Family Accounts – all students in a family draw from the same account; adequate funds may be available for students at the beginning of the day but could fall below the tolerated negative balance by the end of the day. Please review the account activity and have adequate funds in your account to cover expected purchases.
4. Account Balance Notification – families are sent an email when the account balance reaches $5.00, this can be changed when logged in. Parents are able to view transactions, deposits, purchasable items, and account balances at OmnID
5. Meal Benefits – An Application for Educational Benefits can be completed at any time during the school year. A new application must be completed each year.
6. a la Carte – choices are compliant with all USDA approved Smart Snack protocols.
7. Account Limits – Cafe #110  staff are not able to accept the responsibility to enforce spending limits on students. Parents need to set limits with students regarding their meal account spending expectations.
8. Family Account Negative Balance – Students may be offered an amended meal when their family account balances go negative.
9. Deposits – generally a credit card deposit is applied to the family account within 10 minutes, payments by check or cash may take up to 2 days.
10. SW Metro, ALC, Transitions, Kid’s Co – Please communicate with your site lead teacher regarding breakfast and lunch programs.

If you have any questions about the Food and Nutrition Services Department, do not hesitate to contact us, please email us at cafe110@isd110.org.

Sincerely,

Barbara Schank, L.D.

Director of Nutritional Services

Food & Nutrition Services, Office Location: 512 Industrial Boulevard, Waconia, MN 55387

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