Payment Policy

Because each student has an individual account in our POS system, parents may send in a check or cash to deposit in their child’s account. As a student eats each day, the computer automatically deducts one lunch payment from their account. The computer will only deduct one meal a day and if a student were to purchase anything else, it is done on an a la carte basis. You may send prepayment money into each school with your child or send payments to the Food Service Office at 5 West St., Auburn MA 01501. We are also able to split a check between siblings within the system if prepayment is sent to our main office.

On-Line Payment is now available!.  Parents will be able to view their students’ accounts and make payments through Pay Pal.  Set up your account or make payments here http://www.mynutrikids.com

Charging Policy: Because our system allows prepayments, it also allows students to go through the cafeteria line and purchase items without money. The computer then charges that student’s account for a meal or items that were purchased.

We do discourage charging and at the high school level we are limiting this feature as we have had a great deal of abuse of this benefit. So there will be no charging at the high school this school year.

We do allow students to take up to three meals and at that time, if no payment is received, we do offer a basic lunch to them if there is a negative balance (money owed to us) in their account. A basic meal would be a peanut butter sandwich and milk or cheese sandwich if a child has an allergy.

Allergies: We can post allergies on your child’s profile. Please provide the nurses at your school information about an allergy your student has. In order for us to consider this as a valid allergy we must have a doctor’s note or a nurse practitioner’s note stating the child has an allergy. We find some students have food dislikes but we will only post valid allergies on your student account. We hope this helps provide a safe eating environment for your student and can relieve some of the stress parents feel about allergy situations at school.