Significantly increase your exposure to new customers at no cost. If you do take-out, you can do this - smaller sizes, larger quantity!
Expand the reach of your business as potentially thousands of local parents and staff will browse your menu.
Provide service only on the days you select to earn more income on the days you want.
Have the freedom to choose the maximum number of meals you can cater - whether it is 15 or 1000. We have schools and organizations of different sizes browsing our site.
Satisfaction that you are feeding children and staff healthy and nutritious food to help them focus on education.
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To ensure the safety of all students and staff, upload your Health Inspection Report that has been completed within 10 months of the signup date. You will need to resubmit this every 10 months from date of inspection to keep your active status. We also require an upload a valid Food Handler Certificate. Once these 2 documents have been reviewed by our team, your account will be active and your business can be listed on our site to get exposure to numerous parents.
The Ministry of Health has guidelines to ensure that food served in schools are nutritous enough for students. We are extending these guidelines to organizations outside of school, ensuring that children during PD Days and Camps also receive nutritious meals. Input the ingredients of your dish in our proprietary ingredients analyzer to verify that the meals you serve to schools and organizations pass Ministry guidelines. Don't worry, we do not share your ingredients with anyone else - only you have access to it, so your secrets are safe with us! Guidelines can be found here.
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No, you cannot create a listing if you do not have both of these documents. To ensure the safety of staff and students, we require that all restaurants and caterers upload their valid Health Inspection Report and at least one employee have a valid Food Handler Certificate. We keep these on file and present to organizations and parents upon request.
No, normally your uploaded documents are on file and not displayed with your listing. However, if an organization or parent requests to see them, we show them your verified documents on file.
Yes, in your account settings, there is a field to indicate which days you prefer to cater. Organizations may still contact you for a different day, so in that case you can decline their request.
Organizations can't see when you have been scheduled to fulfill other orders, so they may contact you to cater when you are busy. In that case, simply press "decline" when the request comes in.
In your account (Menu Account), you can specify a radius in kilometers, indicating the maximum distance you want to deliver lunches from the address associated with your account in our system. When an organization or a parent logs in, we will only display the restaurants and caterers located within the specified distance radius of their organization. If you are located farther than this radius, your listing will not be displayed unless they choose to view all listings on our site. If they contact you and you are unable to deliver due to the distance, simply decline their request.
Once the organization confirms the delivery of the lunches, the staff will go into the system and indicate "delivered". Payment will be e-transferred to you using your login email address.
Parents of children with allergies are always careful of what they order when they go out to eat. The same thing applies to student lunches - they will only order if they see that your dish has none of the allergens to which their child is allergic. As part of the onboarding, we provide training related to allergies. Please use this knowledge and ensure that you specify what allergens your dish includes when you create your dishes in the system and ensure no cross-contamination when cooking.
In general, cancellations are not allowed as parents may have already paid for meals in the system. If this is an emergency, please contact the organization directly to setup an alternate date and time to cater instead.
No, you cannot indicate a minimum order as organizations cannot guarantee the number of parents who will order. We understand this, and will work with you to curate a menu that parents will want to purchase and kids will want to eat to maximize your orders. Remember that although you don't know how many orders you will get - your business has been exposed to hundreds of parents from various ethnic backgrounds, working in both small companies and large corporations across different sectors. We are one of the few platforms, if not the only one, that can help you reach such a diverse and extensive parent audience at no cost.
You are responsible for the delivery of your food. During the onboarding, we provide all the instructions you need to learn how to separate and label the meals.
Yes, it is absolutely free to signup and list your restaurant or caterer and menus for hundreds of parents to view! One of our missions is to support local small businesses in boosting their revenue. The more restaurants and caterers join us, the more variety of nutritional and ethnic meal options are available to children, contributing to their overall health, focus, and attention - another one of our missions.
No problem! As part of the onboarding, we collaborate with all caterers and restaurants to create their menu offerings. Get in touch with us, and we'll provide you with tips and tricks for designing dishes that children will enjoy, and parents will be pleased with.