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It's a balancing act—keeping track of your program's nutritional goals, managing the budget and nourishing the student body. Your challenge is to develop a program that meets all three demands and contributes to your district's sound educational environment. SL-Tech can help you solve your toughest concerns. We'll not only provide state-of-the-art software, hardware, and technical expertise, but also support you with the one-on-one guidance and performance tools to successfully manage your foodservice operation.

To learn more about the Keys to a Successful Program, call one of our friendly, knowledgeable consultants. Click here for contact information.

Bottom-Line Results

Managing the costs of a school foodservice program is no easy task. It's hard for revenues to keep up with ever-increasing food and labor costs. You're expected to meet your budget goals, even as everything changes around you. SL-Tech's school foodservice solutions provide you with the tools to meet and exceed all expectations for a successful operation.

Program assessments and ongoing consulting engagements

inTEAM works with your foodservice staff to identify additional revenue opportunities and develop effective marketing plans to increase community outreach. They'll help you reach your goals by establishing performance benchmarks that are realistic and achievable. With your input, they'll craft strategies to help you lower costs. inTEAM assessments and ongoing consulting engagements:

  • Allow you to identify areas of greatest cost
  • Provide practical recommendations on how to maximize existing processes and reduce costs

"Cashless" payment solutions

When used together, WebSMARTT, myLunchMoney.com™ and the myPAL Prepayment Kiosk™ make it easy to accept and track prepayments. Cashless cafeterias positively impact the bottom line with tighter cash controls, reduced shrinkage, and lunch lines that move quickly and effortlessly. No more fumbling for change! It all translates into increased participation, reduced labor costs and additional revenue for your program. In addition, myLunchMoney.com:

  • Provides 24-hour access to online meal accounts—increasing the availability of funds for students to purchase school meals
  • Reminds parents, via e-mail, to reload their child's meal account, preventing charges before they happen

Beneficial tools to manage costs

WebSMARTT foodservice management software provides you with the data and reporting to track your program's finances. With real-time reporting and management, WebSMARTT will help you and your team devote more time and effort to what's most important—serving healthy meals to your students. It automates many foodservice processes, allowing you and your employees to be more productive.

To learn more about the Keys to a Successful Program, call one of our friendly, knowledgeable consultants. Click here for contact information.

Improved Decision Making and Management

Accurate, comprehensive data will help you make sound decisions in managing your program's financial and nutritional health, including the effective management of federal and state funds. Knowing when your nutrition program is doing well, and when adjustments need to be made, is crucial to your success. SL-Tech provides the management tools and approaches to provide you with the data you need to meet your many goals.

When you have questions about systems, processes and efficiencies, count on SL-Tech for definitive answers. inTEAM assessments will help you measure your progress, based on best practices and extensive industry expertise, and provide strategies to build on your achievements. WebSMARTT offers you across-the-board software solutions for all your decision-making queries.

WebSMARTT Foodservice Management Technology

  • With a single, integrated database for all foodservice functions and real-time communications, WebSMARTT provides information that is always the most current, system-wide, to allow you to have the most up-to-date information at a glance.
  • Easily accessible standard reports give you the data you need in a clear, straightforward format. In addition to basic reporting, WebSMARTT software tracks meal sales data and nutritional analyses so that you have the information necessary to determine the most popular, cost-effective, and nutritious menu choices for your customers.
  • Innovative tools in WebSMARTT include our Line Speed Calculator, which helps you identify where holdups in the meal line occur and make needed adjustments to get students through the cafeteria quickly and efficiently.

To learn more about the Keys to a Successful Program, call one of our friendly, knowledgeable consultants. Click here for contact information.

Nutritional Accountability

We understand that offering nourishing meals in a welcoming environment is your number-one goal. What children eat has become a national issue and school districts are charged with developing and promoting wellness policies to improve childhood health. Many students may receive two of their three daily meals from your program, and so you’ve got to find a way to balance nutrition with students’ taste preferences—not always an easy task! SL-Tech can work with you to develop an approach that satisfies everyone. Enticing and healthful choices result in happy customers—students, staff, parents and the community.

  • inTEAM will work alongside your staff to develop student-tested menus that offer a variety of nutritious choices. They’ll also provide ideas to enhance the serving and dining areas to improve customer service and appeal. In addition, they’ll help you implement a marketing plan to attract more students to your program, increasing breakfast and lunch participation.
  • myLunchMoney.com allows parents to see what kinds of choices their children are making and then set limits that will encourage the selection of healthier meals.
  • WebSMARTT provides you with the tools to analyze the nutritional content of your menus, ensuring that meals are consistent with federal regulations and the district's wellness policies. WebSMARTT also helps you determine what meals/items sell better than others, so that you can put more nutritious and popular items on the menu.
  • VendSMARTT Healthy Vending Solutions provide additional nutritious, reimbursable meals and à la carte selections to students during and outside of normal meal hours, so they get the fuel they need, when they need it. Our system includes menus that were developed with the input of students, foodservice and nutrition experts. These tried-and-true menus are nutritious and well-liked by students!

To learn more about the Keys to a Successful Program, call one of our friendly, knowledgeable consultants. Click here for contact information.

Optimize Your Investment

The heart and focus of your business is student centered. Yet, there are still business-related issues that you confront on a daily basis. As a business leader, you manage critical investments for the district. These investments—in infrastructure, in technology and in your people—are often made with limited resources, and these are becoming even scarcer. By aligning your people with the tools and technologies they need to be productive and efficient, SL-Tech can help you maximize your investments.

  • WebSMARTT is a proven, stable, state-of-the-art software program that has been successfully operating in districts of all sizes since 2002. An investment in WebSMARTT is a sound investment.
  • inTEAM consultants will work with your staff to make workstations more efficient, identify and eliminate “time wasters,” help you measure productivity and set achievable benchmarks for each cost center.
  • WebSMARTT offers ease and real-time automation to many of the processes that may currently require a significant amount of time and attention from foodservice staff, including:
    • Service of reimbursable meals
    • Prepayment processing and reconciliation
    • Ordering, receiving and inventory
    • Menu planning and production
    • Reporting and analysis
    • Comprehensive, seamless data exchange with other district administrative systems via the Schools Interoperability Framework
  • Our Point of Sale hardware provides maximum functionality for a minimal cost, delivering a significant return on your investment. The PAD+ 3-in-1 input device combines touchpad scanner, card swipe and PIN pad functionality in a single unit for one low price. Additionally, our Mira POS terminals, which are some of the most cost-effective on the market, have a lifespan of more than 10 years.

To learn more about the Keys to a Successful Program, call one of our friendly, knowledgeable consultants. Click here for contact information.

Increase Participation

Savvy foodservice directors are always looking for new ways to grow participation in their programs. Low participation in school foodservice programs can impact your program’s financial performance. It may also mean that many students aren’t getting the nutritious meals they need to perform well at school. SL-Tech can assist you with operational and technology tools to help you increase student participation.

  • inTEAM will help you identify the reasons for low participation rates and provide concrete recommendations to reach more students, including realistic changes you can make in your menu and serving areas.
  • WebSMARTT includes innovative tools like our Line Speed Calculator to help you identify the cause of “slowdowns” so that you can make the adjustments necessary to get more students through the lines. WebSMARTT reports can also help you determine which meals are most popular with students to ensure their interest in what’s being served.
  • myLunchMoney.com and the myPAL prepayment kiosk can help your cafeterias go completely cashless, helping your lines move faster. They also allow free, reduced and paid students to be completely indistinguishable from one another. SL-Tech’s Point of Sale (POS) identification devices obscure status information, allowing all students to participate without embarrassment or stigma.
  • VendSMARTT Healthy Vending Solutions will extend your hours of operation and reach more students around campus with nutritious reimbursable meals and à la carte items.

To learn more about the Keys to a Successful Program, call one of our friendly, knowledgeable consultants. Click here for contact information.