Saint Ambrose School Hot Lunch Program

Order Online through Digital Academy

There is a strict deadline for ordering. Please scroll down for detailed instructions. Thank you for helping us plan ahead and submitting your orders on time!

We will continue to daily buy the option directly to the office for same-day orders if needed.

Hot Lunch Newsletter

COST: Full lunch which includes choice of milk is $3.00. Milk if purchased alone will cost $0.50.

DAILY ORDERS: Will be accepted, however, we cannot guarantee your child will receive what he/she ordered. For this reason, we encourage students to purchase monthly on Digital Academy. PROCEDURE FOR DAILY ORDERS: Please write on the front of an envelope: STUDENT’S NAME (FIRST AND LAST), ROOM NUMBER, GRADE and MEAL SELECTION.
Daily Orders need to be in the office by 9:30 a.m..

FREE and REDUCED LUNCHES: Only those that qualified last year and received a letter from Nutrition Services for free or reduced lunches will remain free or reduced through the month of September. If you feel you may qualify for FREE or REDUCED lunches, please complete the application and send it in ASAP. You will need to pay full price until you receive notice from the school. Contact the Cafeteria Manager for an application anytime throughout the school year as circumstances change. This information is confidential.

Blessings,
Beth Saxon
Cafeteria Manager
330-460-7301 ext. 308
bsaxon@staschool.us

Lunch Menu Calendar

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Instructions for Online Ordering through Digital Academy

  1. On the right side of your dashboard is “Cafeteria”. Click “Order”.
  2. View each week and click through all weeks before hitting “Checkout”
  3. Go through ALL SCREENS and click “Place Order” at the end, even if there is no cost to your order.
  4. You will receive a receipt via e-mail.
    (If you do not receive a receipt, please make sure that you completed all screens and clicked “Place Order” at the end.)

If you have any trouble ordering, please contact AMorgan@StASchool.us.

 

Frequently Asked Questions:

Click on any of the question below to find answers to frequently asked questions below. You may also download a PDF by clicking the link below. Thank you!

DOWNLOAD: Hot Lunch FAQ

The menus will be posted on Digital Academy at least 10 days before orders are due.  If you need additional time, please contact me directly at Bsaxon@staschool.us.

The monthly newsletter contains important information.  Please keep one on hand especially if you use the daily buy method instead of the monthly ordering method.  This form always includes dates that are important such as classroom field trips, days off and dates that the kitchen may not be available. We try to inform you as much as possible but oftentimes, things are planned after the newsletter has gone out.  I try to keep in contact with the teaching staff as much as possible to avoid lunch problems.

I now have the ability to credit accounts for absences, retreats, field trips, etc. It will come off your bill when you place your order for the following month.

I will always verify this with the child’s actual order form.  If the child did order a lunch, I will try to have the child take the hot lunch and take the packed lunch home.  This is because once the food is made you are no longer able to take a credit for it.  If I receive either a note or a phone call in the morning from a parent, I would be happy to honor the credit.

Your child will be offered a hot lunch or the PTU supplied Nutragrain Bar and Fruit Cup.  Money is expected to be turned in the next day if a lunch is chosen.  If a family does not pay after 3 lunches were provided on credit, they will no longer be offered the hot lunch. N/A this year due to free lunches.

Although we do encourage the children to eat what they can, we unfortunately see A LOT of food thrown away.  Please instruct your children to bring their unopened food home or put it on the share tray for other students to eat.

Nutrition Services makes up the menus for all the schools that participate in their program.  They follow the strict guidelines set up by the government.

Unfortunately no; a new application needs to be filled out and submitted immediately to the cafeteria.  Qualification does not start until we receive a written response from the Diocese.

Yes, you do for the month of August/September ONLY.  Unless you have received written notification from the Diocese, a new application MUST be completed.  Your benefits run out October 1st at which time, you will be responsible to pay full price for your child’s meals.  The sooner you get the applications in, the sooner they get downtown.  The only step that I have in this process is to make sure that the applications are filled out properly and to mail them.  Everything else is handled through the Diocese.

It is the child’s responsibility to let someone know if they do not have a lunch.  It happens all the time and it’s nothing to be ashamed of.  The lunch aides do walk around but don’t always catch the fact that a child does not have a lunch.  I will always offer them a lunch or nutragrain bar and a fruit cup.  There have been times that a child refused what was offered to them.

I know exactly how much food I will need to cook from your monthly order sheets that you turn in and by the number of daily buys that I receive from the office in the morning.  I do bake extra if it’s available.  That is why the Daily Buy Procedure is set up and should be followed.  If your child continually comes down with money, a note will be sent home.  It is also difficult because we do not have a cashier, and I have to stop serving to attend to these matters.  The Daily Buy Procedure is as follows: The front of an envelope should include Name/grade/room number/meal choice.  If a meal choice is not chosen, the child will most likely receive the main item.

I am more than willing to work with you on this one.  Just email me at bsaxon@staschool.us with the meal choices that your child is interested in and I will order the item in to check the ingredients.  It is up to the parent to contact me on a monthly basis to check for ingredients in products. Children with milk allergies/concerns will be offered Lactaid or Soy Milk.  It will be up to your child if they want it or not.  There must be documentation regarding milk allergies to receive the Lactaid or Soy milk.

The Diocese has come up with a new policy.  We are now to keep track of lost, stolen and misused tickets.  After the second time that this occurs, a note will be sent to the child and parent notifying them that after the third occurrence during the school year, they will be refused a lunch.  This is usually not an issue for us but I must notify all parents of the new guideline.