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Pizza day, prepaid and counted.
Lunch orders on paper slips with crumpled dollar bills, a kitchen guessing counts, and the office reconciling coins. Put the weekly menu online, let parents order and pay in advance, and hand the kitchen an exact count every morning.
Sound familiar?
The problems we built for
Cash and crumpled order slipsLunch money travels in backpacks and gets counted by hand — lost slips, missing dollars, and a secretary playing bank teller.
The kitchen guessesWithout real pre-orders, the kitchen over-produces or runs short — waste on one side, hungry eighth graders on the other.
Allergies at the serving lineThe allergy list lives in the office, but the decision happens at the serving line — a gap nobody should tolerate.
What you get
Ordered by parents, counted for the kitchen
Weekly menu orderingParents see the menu, pick days and options per child, and pay at checkout — Sunday night, from the couch.
Meal plans & subscriptionsFull-year or monthly meal plans billed automatically — one signup in September, done.
Exact kitchen countsEvery morning the kitchen gets today's count by item and by grade — production matches orders, waste disappears.
Allergy-aware by designEach child's allergies flag right on the order and the serving roster — the office list finally reaches the serving line.
Sponsor-a-lunch & pizza daySpecial days, sponsored lunches, and fundraiser meals sold as one-click add-ons — pizza day becomes a revenue line.
Zero cash handlingEverything prepaid online — no envelopes, no coins, no reconciliation. The office is out of the lunch-money business.
$0of lunch money counted by hand in the office
1 countto the kitchen every morning — by item and by grade, from real prepaid orders
Sunday nightwhen the week's orders come in — from the couch, per child
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Frequently asked questions
What is school lunch pre-ordering software?
School lunch pre-ordering software puts the weekly menu online: parents order and pay per child in advance, the kitchen receives exact counts each morning, and allergies flag on the serving roster. 613OS removes cash from the lunch program entirely — no envelopes, no reconciliation.
How do lunch orders reach the kitchen?
Every morning the kitchen gets an exact count by item and grade from real prepaid orders — production matches demand, waste disappears, and no eighth grader finds the pizza ran out.
Can parents order for the whole week at once?
Yes. Parents typically order Sunday night for the week — or subscribe to a monthly or yearly meal plan billed automatically — and can adjust individual days up to your cutoff time.
How are allergies handled at the serving line?
Each child's allergy flags appear on the daily serving roster, moving the office's allergy list to the moment of decision — the gap between the filing cabinet and the lunch line, closed.
Does pizza day become a fundraiser?
It can. Special days, sponsor-a-lunch options, and premium items sell as one-tap add-ons with margin built in — many schools turn the lunch program from a cost center into a modest revenue line.
Get out of the lunch-money business
Menus online, payments up front, exact counts for the kitchen — every single day. Book a 30-minute demo and we'll show you how this would run at your school.
613os.com/demo · 305-954-7362 · yoni@613os.com