POS Back Office Put the cafeteria managers in charge of the operation by providing real-time data in a format that is easy to understand and manage.

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1 Inventory Management software increases accuracy and boosts profitability. It allows you to automate your operations by stocking, tracking and processing inventory items more efficiently. POS Our POS software will speed up your serving line, making your food service personnel more efficient. It also protects the student s sensitive information while being extremely easy to use! Procurement allows you to request and receive products at your school location and to review and process them in the district office. Real time information allows school and district personnel to see up-tothe-minute information of what is on hand, what has been ordered, and amount currently in the warehouse. POS Back Office Put the cafeteria managers in charge of the operation by providing real-time data in a format that is easy to understand and manage. Free & Reduced software allows you to process and manage applications accurately and more efficiently. Management of your meal program insures your schools receive all benefits, discounts and reimbursements available from the government. Menus Our newest software application is designed to streamline your menu planning process. Internet Deposit Site Manager allows you to collect, analyze and communicate information that connects the school, the district office and the bank. It does this by creating an informationsharing environment between the Site Manager database, Student Information System and school accounting program. It s secure, it s quick, it s easy. Mom and Dad can check their child s account balance from home or work. Deposits can be made in seconds and will appear at the POS terminal within three minutes. Nutritional Analysis is fully integrated with Menus and Site Manager! It will offer users an easy way to calculate and monitor the nutritional values of all meals served. Call today to set up a FREE and informative demonstration. Compare LunchBox in your next RFP. For more information on how LunchBox can simplify your operations and reduce costs for any K-12 Food and Nutrition Program, call us at or visit our website at

2 LunchBox POS software helps you process student s meals accurately and quickly, while protecting sensitive information. The touch screen design allows you to focus on serving meals, not technology. Cashiers and Managers agree that their jobs are made easier and more manageable with Point-of- Sale from LunchBox. Lines move quickly and school food service personnel can be more efficient. LunchBox POS Keeps Your Lunch Lines Moving Quickly. Quickly identify students using: - pin-pad readers - bar code scanners - wand scanners - finger-print imaging - touch screen look-up - home-room look-up Super-fast student processing guarantees super-fast lunch lines combining the fast identify methods above with student buffering. Accept account pre-payments at the POS terminal, school office, district office, or over the Internet and have student account totals update automatically Allow participants to use their prepayment accounts while visiting other schools or if transfering to schools within the district using district-wide lookup from any school Manage all aspects of the student food service database from the school or the district office over the district network Easily promote students at year-end to the next grade and transfer their accounts to the new school Security, accountability and on-screen student account information are core benefits of the LunchBox s Point of Sale: Cashiers use unique password sign-in, transaction tracking, and blind cash declaration totals. Sales by sale type, meal & milk count, status, and other state audit requirements. LunchBox easily accommodates dual lane terminals for single and multiple terminal school sites helping to speed up lunch lines and reduce the number of cashiers needed. Back office functions can be operated from one of the POS terminals or from a Back Office manager s workstation. LunchBox POS/Back Office Manager for Elementary Schools is an ideal and economic solution single terminal Elementary schools. POS and Back Office can operate on the same touch screen. Back office operations are simplified saving additional costs of a manager s workstation and additional cashier labor dollars. Open architecture allows you to run LunchBox on any hardware platform meeting the LunchBox specifications. IBM for stability, reliability and durability - combine LunchBox Point-of-Sale with the IBM SurePOS. The IBM SurePOS was designed with the food service industry in mind. This winning combination will extend the life of your investment. Let us show you how our solutions can help simplify your school operations and reduce costs.

3 LunchBox s SiteManager Collect, analyze, report on and communicate information between each school centrally from the district office. This is accomplished by sharing information between the SiteManager database, Point-of-Sale, the LunchBox Back Office and district s Student Information System. This shared environment makes needed information available in real-time. Site Manager gives you real-time access to school data centrally at the office of the Food Service Director. With LunchBox s Site Manager you can: Access and manage each area of your food & nutrition program centrally from one easy-to-use and intuitive application Analyze reports for cash, sales, claims, prepaid deposits, meal counts, receipts, inventory tracking and internet deposits. Set appropriate security levels for each user of the system View accumulated reimbursements by date, school and district Prevent over claims by inspecting submissions Allow for program definition such as USDA Lunch, USDA Breakfast, and Snack Give parents access to a secure website allowing them to view, add money & set spending limits to their children s account Create and broadcast menus to sites or site groups centrally The SiteManager competitive advantage gives you a highly productive advantage. It is based on LunchBox s forward performing technology platform founded on browser-based technology, a dominant Microsoft SQL database engine and software architecture built with JAVA and XML. This equates to a powerfully integrated application suite, secure data management and high-speed data transfer & communication. All of this insures that your investment is sound and scalable far into the future. SiteManager gives you real-time access to important school food service data. It will allow you to improve your reporting, school operations and cash management.

4 LunchBox Free and Reduced software allows you to process & manage applications accurately and more efficiently. Management of your meal program insures that your schools receive all benefits, and reimbursements that are available from the government. LunchBox s Free & Reduced makes meal program management efficient and accurate. With Free and Reduced you can: Enter and process family or individual applications swiftly to meet deadlines Make sure you are in compliance with government guidelines for eligibility and verification Report on all types of status sales and meal counts Generate form letters for verification, temporary status expiration, application and adverse action Provide a complete history of student status changes, detailing when, what & why changes were made Instantly retrieve status and application information from transferring students All application entry fields are on one entry screen facilitating and speeding up data entry Application quick add feature allows you to efficiently enter and process new applications. Free and Reduced is easy to learn, use and requires minimal training. Your staff will quickly adapt to its friendly browser-based interface. Application scanning - You can add software that allows you to quickly scan applications. Take control of your meal programs with Free and Reduced. Give your managers the tools they need, plus the accountability school administrators and state and federal auditors require.

5 Control cost while improving program profits Improve efficiency and increase profitability with LunchBox s Inventory Management. Automate your operations by stocking, tracking & processing products more efficiently. Bid Management, Purchasing and Inventory Using Inventory Management, the food-service director, warehouse manager and cafeteria managers can: Know exact perpetual inventory levels by tracking product usage and delivery Prevent mistakes by viewing and auditing inventory levels and purchase requests Reconcile orders by tracking delivery and receipt of products Product inventory count done in cases & units, valuation based on FIFO, and all data entry is done electronically at site or the district Track inventory product history by transaction type and date Simplify Bid Management Improve the vendor bid process by receiving detailed reports and faster bid requests and responses. Bids can be awarded automatically by lowest bid, single vendor or by quality selection. Electronic Purchasing Purchase Orders from sites or the warehouse to vendors, or from sites to the warehouse can be quickly created & sent electronically using pre-selected order templates. Order data can be imported or exported for added flexibility or to vendors. Efficient Warehouse Management Improve fulfillment effectiveness of approved orders through product pick-list confirmation and delivery tracking. Warehouse manager saves time, energy and duplication through with more efficient operations. Inventory Management is easy-to-learn, easy-to-use and requires minimal training. Your staff will quickly adapt to its user friendly browser-based interface, speeding up your implementation. Budget pressures mean school foodservice managers need to be more efficient and effective. Give your managers the tools they need to streamline operations with Inventory Management.

6 Menus, Production & Nutrition Menus - District Wide Menu Planning and Menu Management Production - Allows Meal and a la Carte sales mix Analysis Nutritional Analysis - Using USDA NuMenu and Nationally Recognized Food Based Standards LunchBox Menus simplifies your efforts to set the standards by which you are measured district-wide District Wide Menu Planning and Management Control your Menus from a central location Menus can be created, broadcast and scheduled to activate by date Menus can be planned and sent to schools in a single process Menus can be centrally defined by site type or site group - such as a single Elementary school or all High Schools Improve Menu quality by allowing multiple users to be involved in the process, for example - Allows a single High School to plan the meals for all High Schools if desired - Allows for Divisional Managers to plan for their schools - Allows Menu s to be planned by a designated employee & reviewed by Director Production will Integrate Actual Sales Data automatically with POS Meal & a la Carte sales information pulled centrally for analysis Provides suggested usage amount Provides suggested order quantity for future Menus Tracks trend movement and reports trend analysis Sales aggregation and analysis occur automatically Quick Facts Menu Management s central control let s plan, create & broadcast menus from the district office directly to school POS terminals Menus, Production & Nutrition are all integrated with POS sales data LunchBox Nutritional Analysis is integrated with Menus using USDA NuMenu Nutrition data LunchBox breaks the mold of Traditional Menu Planning Eliminate have enter menu planning & nutrition analysis data in multiple programs. Menus is integrated within LunchBox s SiteManager and all other LunchBox applications. No duplicate entry required and do not need to import data into a different application or module. The total solution! Save time and money by only having to load the software one time on network for all users. First Web Based Nutritional Analysis Tool. Nutritional Analysis managed with powerful SQL database engine. Nutritional Analysis based on the national standard USDA CN8 data base and USDA recipes. Menu planning coupled with Nutritional Analysis by checking planned vs. required RDA. Report shows planned nutritional information for a single date, week or two weeks.

7 Secure Internet Deposits School Foodservice Website World s leading internet payment company confirmation Internet Parents confirmation District Bank Internet Deposits View Account Balance View Eating History Set Spending Limits Make Comments re: - allergies - diet restrictions - spending limits Insure child stays on campus School Cafeteria Central Office (866) LunchBox The Total School Food Service Solution

8 LunchBox Technology Platform LunchBox s competitive advantage is your advantage Find out what your own IT Department says about LunchBox Simple to use & intuitive browser based applications make training, learning and daily operations extremely user friendly. LunchBox s Technology Platform is built with your long term investment in mind. Core components of the LunchBox technology are: LunchBox is Browser Based Web Technology Written JAVA HTML throughout Uses XML for fast Communication Operates on Client/Server Network Complete Wireless Capability Is Scalable for the Future Open architecture Powerful and efficient MS SQL database engine Complete Integration with all LunchBox applications Interface with your School District s Student Information System Quick Facts SiteManager sorts, stores and reports on data from every application in the LunchBox suite centrally on a powerful SQL database engine LunchBox s web based technology insures highspeed data transfer and communication Directors & Parents can access and work with LunchBox over the internet Industry Leaders are on your team - LunchBox as a certified IBM & MS Business Partner, & uses Crystal Reports, the industry s leading report writer LunchBox POS supports multiple modes of identification recognition including Pin Pad, Wand, Barcode reader and biometrics. LunchBox s productivity for Free & Reduced module can be amplified with an interface to an application scanning program. LunchBox supports a receipt printer at the point-of-sale terminals to provide account balance notification right from the lunch line. LunchBox is amemberandisendorsed by the ASFSA, USDA, CaSFSA and SIF