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Food Services

Welcome to the food service program

for SY 2026-2027


What’s New in Food Service This Year

  • BWSD Chef Coming This Fall - Our new chef will be making school meals exciting for students attending the high school with new recipes and dining concepts to entice students and staff members to dine with BWSD. Not only at BHS, our chef will be traveling to all of the school sites to introduce students to new recipes and exciting scratch-cooking delights. Catering events will be elevated to new levels in collaboration with the district and community events. Our new food service chef and the administration staff at BHS will be collaborating to create a new internship program for our BHS students in culinary training and food service management where our students can gain the knowledge of the food industry right here on the BWSD campus. Exciting things are coming to BWSD Food Service this school year.

Food Service Features:

  • Breakfast meals are free to all students. 

  • Lunch is available at all sites daily. Parents must reapply for free or reduced price meal benefits online for the current school year if they feel they may qualify based on income. Families with direct certification—government assistance will not have to reapply for benefits if they received their benefit letter for the current school year.

  • High School Online Ordering: Students can place orders online for a wide range of daily options, including a customizable deli and salad bar, grill favorites, and chicken selections.

  • BHS On-Campus Delivery: Online orders will be delivered to students and staff in locations across the BHS campus.

  • BHS - Expanded Coffee Shop: The high school coffee shop will offer food and beverage sales throughout the entire school day.

  • Easy Payments: Parents, staff, and students can quickly pay with credit cards or online checking using a simple QR code.

  • Learning Opportunities: Food service will partner with educators to create hands-on learning experiences for students, including exposure to real business operations.

  • Staff Online Ordering: Beginning in October, staff at all four schools will have access to online ordering with a new adult menu for lunch.

  • Fresh Blend Smoothies: All schools will continue to offer refreshing, healthy fruit and vegetable smoothies at lunch.

  • Mid-Year Surprise: Look out for new “Flavor-Sizzling” menu options and internship opportunities for eligible high school students later in the school year.

Menus are posted each month on the Food Services page of the website. Please stay connected with us on X @BWFOODSERVICE for updates to menus. Food Services will provide a variety of meal services to meet the needs of BWSD enrolled students. Expanded vegetarian options will be available at all schools to meet the growing trends of our district students. 

Menu Special Features:
● Vegetarian Meals Available Daily
● A la carte program for Secondary Schools
● A la carte snack program for R. A. Lutz Elementary School and Whitehall Elementary School.

The National School Lunch Program returns for 2026-2027. All student meals will be FULL PRICE unless families qualify for government assistance or apply for benefits.

Elementary Prices Secondary Prices
Grades K-5 Breakfast: Free Grades 6-12 Breakfast: Free
Grades K-5 Lunch: $3.30 Grades 6-12 Lunch: $4.00

 

Families who may qualify for free and reduced meals based on income or other qualifying factors will need to complete the meal benefits application at the SchoolCafe website for the upcoming school year. Meal applications must be dated on or after July 1, 2026, for the current school year.

If you feel you may qualify for meal benefits, please go to the SchoolCafe site and complete a meal application online.

If the family household receives government assistance and/or is eligible for direct certification by the government, then the family does not need to complete a meal application for the current school year. 

Families that are eligible for direct certification will receive a letter from BWSD in August confirming that their child is eligible for free meals in the 2026-2027 school year. The letter will state that they do not need to apply for meal benefits. If any children in your household were missing from your eligibility notification
letter, contact Joyce Weber at 412.885.7500 x8081 or email at jweber@bwschools.net
immediately to add your missing child’s name to the benefits.

All meal payments must be made online using e-funds. Use this guide to help use e-funds if you are a new user or if you need a few reminders!

Credit card and check payments are accepted on e-Funds. 

BWSD Food Services will pay the fees from e-Funds for payments made for the food service cafe fund online. Parents will not have to pay the fee charged by e-Funds for any payments made for the food service cafe fund on or after the effective date, Monday, August 26, 2024.

More information is in the e-funds Parent Guide.

Any questions regarding e-Funds should be communicated directly to e-Funds. Select "contact technical support" and fill out the form. The E-Funds support team will contact you to resolve the issue with their software. If your student is not "matched" within the e-Fund software, contact the food service secretary at 412.884.63300 x 7443.

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Online order pick-up locations available:

  • Atrium

New this year is a QR code that you can scan to take you directly to the e-funds webpage to load your child's account. Credit cards and online checks are accepted with this payment program.

NEW PAYMENT OPTION: Designed to make it easier to make a payment.

eFunds for Payment

Scan this QR code for faster access to e-funds today. **Reminder that it will take 24 hours for the bank to update our software. We recommend that you make payment a week in advance, but know that you can add money to your child's account the day before the actual serving day.

Also, this school year, Fresh Blend Smoothies will begin this fall semester at all four schools. Fresh & healthy vegetable & fruit smoothies will be made in our kitchens to provide students with a fun way to consume more vegetables & fruit in their diets. The Fresh Blend Smoothie program started at the R.A. Lutz building and was a hit with the students. We look forward to seeing students at all grade levels enjoying a healthy smoothie at lunch this year.

Reminder to make sure that you complete your meal benefit application as soon as possible to be sure that your child's meals are free and that you don't incur debt to the district. Please select the free & reduced meal benefit file tab below. Online application is easy to complete.

You can click the link for the website for meal benefits.

http://schoolcafe.com

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Click on the file tab of your choice below to find the information you are looking for on the Food Service Page.