Parent/parish volunteers will purchase, make/cook, serve, and clean up from the meal. I will put out several different time slots so that people do not feel they have to do all of the work.
We will have a "typical" menu of rotated items to help take the burden of meal planning off of parent volunteers.
Parents are responsible for purchasing the food and preparing the meal before lunch begins at 11:00.
Using FACTS for lunch payments will also allow us to put out an order to get a better estimate of how many students will be ordering hot lunch.
Payments can/should be made in advance to indicate how many students will be eating
Parents/volunteers may, of course, deviate from the "planned" menu, but will need to submit the menu change with advance notice so that we can get an accurate head count.
We will need to raise lunch prices to meet inflation rates to $3.00/meal/child.
Parents who volunteer for the meal will still receive a free lunch for their child(ren) that day.
The other change we will make this year is to have "Celebratory Hot Lunch" days for special feasts to draw our student's attention to the tradition of feasting for solemnities (i.e. around/before All Saints' Day, Immaculate Conception, our Patronal Feasts (Archangels and St. Patrick's and Blessed Trinity), etc.).