FAQ

  • What does the PIN pad look like at the cafeterias?
    The image below represents the exact PIN pad used in all cafeterias across ISD 199 schools. Students can use the image below to practice entering their PIN number. 
                                                                       PIN Pad
  • What is a share table?
    Share tables are an effort to reduce the amount of food waste in schools. Children place unconsumed food and beverage items that they have chosen not to eat or drink on the share table. This provides other children the opportunity to take additional helpings of food or beverages at no additional cost. 


    Schools can also reduce waste by: 
  • Implementing Offer versus Serve.
  • Offering multiple choices within each component. 
  • Allowing an appropriate amount of time to eat and scheduling meal periods so they are not too close together. 
  • Implementing recess before lunch, so children can work up an even larger appetite. 
  • Reviewing production records to help forecast amounts to prepare and identify unpopular items. 
 
  • March 2023  - What are Virtual or Homeschool Status P-EBT Benefits?
    Your student may be eligible to receive a pre-loaded Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card that can be used to purchase groceries. You student may be eligible for Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) benefits if:

    1.     Your child previously attended a school participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) at some point after the start of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, or the child enrolled in kindergarten as a virtual or homeschooled student in school year 2020-2021 or later, and

    2.     Your child is not attending a National School Lunch Program (NSLP)-participating school due to concerns about COVID-19, and

    3.     Your child would have been eligible for free or reduced-price meals at their NSLP school if not for their virtual or homeschool status.

     To learn if your children qualify for P-EBT benefits and/or to receive a copy of the application, please contact Sam Cervantez at 651-306-7822 or via email at [email protected] by April 14th, 2023. 

  •  Note: applying for this P-EBT benefit does not make your child eligible to receive free meals at school if they are currently enrolled as a virtual or homeschooled student.


  • May 2023  - P-EBT Benefit Update
    The next scheduled P-EBT fund distribution to qualifying individuals will come at the end of July 2023 per Minnesota Department of Education. 

  • Families who have not yet submitted an educational benefits application for the 2022-2023 school year have until June 16th to submit one. Eligibility for educational benefits could potentially qualify individuals for summer 2023 P-EBT benefits.
  • Click here to apply for educational benefits. Submit applications via email to [email protected].
  • Please reach out to Food Services at 651-306-7822 with any questions pertaining to the above information or current P-EBT qualification. 

     


 


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