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Gateway Food Services

 

HISTORIC NEWS! Governor Healey has signed a $55.98 billion state budget for Fiscal Year 2024, designating $172 million in PERMANENT funding for FREE school meals!!!

One reimbursable breakfast & one reimbursable lunch per day, will be available to every student FREE OF CHARGE! Any extra servings or "milk only" are not reimbursable and will be charged to accounts. Please continue to fill out Free/Reduced Meal Applications if you feel your family may qualify. Even though meals will be free for all, sending in meal applications may help you to qualify for other sources of financial help, such as SNAP, MassHealth, & Summer EBT. It also helps our schools to qualify for other programs, as well. You can find the application linked below. For further information see below, or contact Tasha Hartley @ 685-1005 or thartley@grsd.org.     

 
GOT SUMMER EBT???
You could get more money for food with SNAP!
SNAP is here for families at any time...during the pandemic and after. It is now easier to apply. Click here to learn more!
 
 
Families May Qualify for Free or Reduced Lunch. If your child qualifies for free or reduced meals, they might also be eligible for free or reduced cost health insurance through Mass Health. Call 1-800-841-2900 to learn more.
 
Gateway Food Services is dedicated to ensuring safe access to healthy & delicious meals for all of our students. Our team works hard every day to provide fresh and local fruits & vegetables. We have an onsite baker who provides freshly baked whole grain breads, rolls, pizza, & more. The majority of our meals are made from scratch! Children need fresh and healthy meals in order to learn and be successful in their academic life. 
 
 
 
 

Lunch and Breakfast

Click here to see this month's lunch menu.
 
Because of increased food costs, meal prices needed to be increased across the board for the 2023-2024 school year: **Please note, the State of MA has made FREE school meals PERMANENT! These prices only apply for 2nd meals and will be charged to student accounts when appropriate. Thank you!**
  •      $2.00 for breakfast (all grades)
  •      $3.25 for elementary lunch
  •      $3.75 for grades 6-12
  •      $  .50 for milk purchased alone
  •     Adult meals are $2.50 for breakfast and $4.50 for lunch ($4.00 Meal no milk). (All adult meal prices are shown with tax included)
  NEW!!! MySchoolBucks is now synced with PowerSchool! Families have ease of access to their student meal account, along with all other student information, through PowerSchool; now with ONE convenient log in! Make prepayments, monitor your student account, and access all other student information all in ONE secure place!
OR
 Families can download the MySchoolBucks App onto their cell phone or mobile device! Just CLICK on the banner or links below!

How do I Enroll?

Go to www.myschoolbucks.com or download the mobile app and register for your free account.

Add your students using their school name and birth date.  Make a payment to your student's account/s with your debit/credit card or electronic check.

A program fee may apply. You will have the opportunity to review any fees and cancel if you choose, before you are charged.

If you have any questions, please visit www.myschoolbucks.com and click 'Help' or call MySchoolBucks Customer Support at: 1-855-832-5226.

 
 
 
 

Charging Privileges.

Gateway’s school nutrition staff are passionate about ensuring students have access to healthy school meals to support academic achievement.  “No one wants to see a child go hungry or feel any shame during mealtime. We dedicate our lives to providing access to healthy, balanced meals to all students." Cafeteria staff have no desire to deny any child the opportunity to eat a meal in the GRSD Cafeteria’s. WE DO NOT AND WILL NOT TAKE A MEAL AWAY FROM A STUDENT. As participants in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, we work diligently to enroll all eligible students in the free or reduced price meal program.  Federal funds cover the costs of enrolled students, but we need to charge non-enrolled students to help cover food and labor costs. Parents and school administrators must work together to strike a balance and develop meal charging procedures that respect students, while preventing escalating unpaid meal debts.

The following privileges/procedures will take effect SY18

  • High School:  All students are presumed to be responsible enough to bring money with them daily or pre-pay their meals.
  • Middle School:  Middle School Students are also presumed to be responsible enough to bring money with them daily.  However we recognized that they may forget on occasion.  Students will be allowed to charge 1 meal to be paid the next day.
  •  The student will take the responsibility to check his/her meal account and will not take a meal and try to charge if there is a negative balance.
  • Chester and Littleville Elementary:  The computerized point of sale tracks those accounts that have a negative balance.  Notices will be sent home on Fridays. If your child owes money to the cafeteria we would appreciate your prompt response.  If after ten days of charging and no payment has been made, the parent is responsible for sending their child with a meal from home.

If families need to work out a payment plan, call the Food Service Director.  You also may at any time request a free and reduced meal application if your income has changed. GRSD offers an online payment service.

The Gateway Regional Food and Nutrition Dept. is self-supporting, all monies needed to operate come from daily revenues and state and federal subsidies. Therefore, charging is discouraged.

 

     Gateway Has an Approved Wellness Policy.

 Wellness Policy

 
All food services staff are ServSafe Certified.  Anyone who has questions about the Gateway Food Services Department should call Tasha Hartley, Food Services Director at (413) 685-1005.