Luna calls the program \u201cFood for Thought.\u201d <\/p>\n
Behind the scenes, the operation runs on a carefully timed system. Luna and his team use a color-coded dot system to keep track of which meals are headed to which schools. Purple, for example, identifies meals for St. Thomas Aquinas, while other colors correspond to other schools. <\/p>\n
The kitchen crew begins with the day\u2019s menu and starts with the prep that takes the most time. <\/p>\n
\u201cSauces are obviously started first because sauces take time,\u201d Luna says. <\/p>\n
From there, Luna\u2019s cold crew makes sandwiches, while the daily menu includes two hot entrees, a vegetarian option, a sandwich and a salad. Depending on the school, students can also choose from hot paninis, pasta, soup and a selection of snacks, including baked chips, guacamole, cheese and crackers, and hummus with pretzels. <\/p>\n
Luna also handles the logistics of the lunch program, from communicating with parents to managing each student\u2019s lunch account. The company contracts with schools, but parents set up their student\u2019s lunch account and add money as needed. At lunch, students enter their lunch numbers and pay for their food through the account. <\/p>\n
\u201cSome parents will, you know, throw $20,000 into an account, and other parents will add weekly,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n
When Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner? Caterers begins working with a new school, the company receives a list of enrolled students and their parents\u2019 email addresses. The company then contacts parents to explain the lunch program and how to set up their children\u2019s accounts. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe handle all questions from parents, and we let the teachers concentrate on being teachers and the admins concentrate on being admins,\u201d he says. \u201cMy older sister and my mother were in education, and it\u2019s just something that I know how hard it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luna calls the program \u201cFood for Thought.\u201d Behind the scenes, the operation runs on a carefully timed system.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25108,7309,1428,139924,139925,139926,160,162,161,139927,139928,139929,139930,2188,2001],"class_list":["post-398627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-culinary-institute-of-america","tag-d-c","tag-dallas-christian-school","tag-guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-caterers","tag-mockingbird-elementary","tag-phillip-luna","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-seasonings-caterers","tag-st-johns-episcopal-school","tag-st-thomas-aquinas","tag-the-covenant-school","tag-utah","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}