Food Service

NOTE: When school is unexpectedly cancelled, please be aware that the menu choice from the day when school is closed will be served on the next day school is in session.

Menus

The FALL menu will be online at nvps.net before school starts and come home on the first day of school. Breakfast is offered at all Northview schools before school begins in the morning. Breakfast consists of fruit,grain,meat or meat alternate and milk.  Lunch consists of a fruit, vegetable, grain, protein and milk.

Students MUST take a fruit or vegetable at lunch and breakfast in order to qualify for meal “pricing.” If your child is a participant in the free and reduced program and they are being charged for their meal, it may be because they are not taking all of the components. Please encourage your child to take advantage of getting at least one item from the fruit and vegetable bar. If there is not something offered that day that they want for their meal, please have them take an item that can be put into their backpack and taken home for after school.

Pricing

Free & Reduced Meals

WHAT IF MY STUDENT WAS ELIGIBLE LAST SCHOOL YEAR?

Keep a balance of your child’s meal account.

Although it is the primary responsibility of the parent/guardian to provide their child a lunch (from home or purchased from food service), Northview Public Schools will not refuse a student lunch or breakfast due to a lack of funds.

Students who do not bring a meal from home or do not have funds to purchase a meal will be allowed up to one lunch credit (and one breakfast credit) on their food service account (resulting in a negative balance). The student will be served the meal option of their choice. A student continuing to have a negative balance will be provided an alternative meal and be charged at the regular meal price.

Our staff make every effort to assist parents/guardians in keeping them informed when a negative charge occurs, however, due to the large numbers of students, we rely on parents/guardians to help keep a positive balance in the student’s account. Please remit payment of negative balance on the next business day.

Monitoring your child’s account.

1. SendMoneyToSchool gives you free access to your child’s account to view balances and charges made. Parents & guardians can be proactive and set up to receive an email alert when funds drop below a selected amount.

2. Northview will email parents & guardians daily when an account goes into the negative. Please keep your email address up-to-date in the school office and add jjager@nvps.net to your contacts to assure you receive emails.

Making payments to your child’s account.

1. Make a payment on your SendMoneyToSchool account. There is a small fee to deposit through this website. Funds will show on the account within one day.

2. Set up Northview Public Schools in your bill payment on your online banking. You can send checks on a regular basis. Please use:

Northview Food Service, 4451 Hunsberger NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525 and include your student’s account number in the memo section.

3. Send checks (made out to Northview Food Service) to school with your student. Cash is always accepted, however, cash deposits cannot be guaranteed.

Student access to meal accounts.

All students are assigned a meal account when they enroll in Northview. This account stays the same for the duration of their school years. Students may access their account by registering for the finger scan system. The finger scan system is the easiest and most secure way for students to access their account. The system is a finger imaging program that measure unique points of each student fingerprint and transfers it to numerical number. To register students in this system, the student holds their finger on the scanner while the points are measured and transferred to a unique number. That unique number is now what identifies each student in the lunch room. Fingerprints are not being taken and fingerprints cannot be made from the unique number.

This site was created by and is maintained by lunchapp.com.  Northview Public Schools does not endorse, insure the accuracy of, or vouch for the safety and privacy of any linked sites nor does it assume any responsibility for the content found on these sites.  Contact Jan at 361-3473 with questions.

NOTE:  When applying for a lunch account for your family please note the following:
(1) You will need your student’s Id. (2)  Requests are processed on a daily basis  so if you do not receive an Email within one school working day of your request, check your Spam folder as some Email servers automatically “Spam” them.  (3) There is NO charge to set up the account and view the history and balances of your children(s) account, however, if you choose to make a payment online there is a small fee to do so. (4)  Add children to any current account by giving Jan the new names.

FOR THOSE CHOOSING NOT TO APPLY ONLINE:

Free & Reduced Meal Application (PDF)

Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)

How to Apply (PDF)