School meals are a great value and a huge convenience for busy families. This is a great time for your children to expand their palate for new textures, flavors, smells and tastes. All students automatically, upon enrollment, have an active lunch account in the cafeteria. Through this account, your child can access the funds you've deposited to purchase meals and a la carte items during breakfast or lunch. 

 

School Menu and Ala-Carte Prices

 

 

The Villages Charter School recognizes that unpaid meal charges represent a difficult and complex issue for the families we serve and our food service department. To prevent children from accruing unpaid meal charges, we must balance our desire to provide for hungry children lacking the means to pay for meals with the demands of maintaining the financial viability of our school food service operation. Students are allowed a credit limit to charge meals & a la carte items.

The MEAL CHARGE POLICY explains these details and other valuable information in greater detail. Parents and/or guardians are responsible for all charges and balances must be paid to reenroll for the following school year. 

You can place restrictions and spending limits on your childs purchases from the EZSchoolPay website or on the App. See instruction below. 

Spending Limits

EZSchoolPay offers parents the ability to apply spending limits (restrictions) on their child’s meal account. The spending limits can be applied to each day, individual meal sessions (Breakfast or Lunch), or for a la carte purchases, if desired.

• To request a spending limit for your child’s meal account, click the “My Students” link on the left side of the page. Then, click the pencil next to your child:

• On the screen that opens, click the “Set Spending Limits” button, located at the bottom right-hand corner:

• Select the type of spending limit that should be applied. “Simple” refers to a limit that should be applied to each day, overall, whereas the “Advanced” selection would apply to meal sessions and a la carte purchases individually. When selecting the “Simple” option, continue to step 4; otherwise, proceed to step 5:

• When setting the spending limit to apply each day, overall, select the appropriate Spending Limit choice from the options listed. See below for a more detailed explanation of each option:

Do not limit meal account spending (max allowed): When this option is selected, your child will be able to use their meal account, without a limit applied.

 

Do not allow any meal account spending ($0.00 allowed): When this option is selected, your child will not be able to use their meal account for any purchases, and must pay with cash (or check) during meal service; purchases made cannot be deducted from your child’s meal account.

 

Limit meal account spending pert day to a specific dollar amount: When this option is selected, your child will only be able to spend the set dollar amount from their account each day. This applies to all meal sessions, as well as a la carte purchases.

 

 

• When setting the spending limit to apply to breakfast, lunch and a la care purchases separately, select the “Advanced” option, then make the appropriate selections for each session (Breakfast and Lunch), as well as how their a la carte purchases should be limited, accordingly. See below for a more detailed explanation of each option:

Breakfast

Do not limit meal account spending (max allowed): When this option is selected, your child will be able to use their meal account, without a limit applied.

Do not allow any meal account spending ($0.00 allowed): When this option is selected, your child will not be able to use their meal account for any purchases, and must pay with cash (or check) during meal service; purchases made cannot be deducted from your child’s meal account.

Limit meal account spending pert day to a specific dollar amount: When this option is selected, your child will only be able to spend the set dollar amount from their account each day. This applies to all meal sessions, as well as a la carte purchases.

Lunch

Do not limit meal account spending (max allowed): When this option is selected, your child will be able to use their meal account, without a limit applied.

Do not allow any meal account spending ($0.00 allowed): When this option is selected, your child will not be able to use their meal account for any purchases, and must pay with cash (or check) during meal service; purchases made cannot be deducted from your child’s meal account.

Limit meal account spending pert day to a specific dollar amount: When this option is selected, your child will only be able to spend the set dollar amount from their account each day. This applies to all meal sessions, as well as a la carte purchases.

Ala Carte Items

Do not allow any account purchases for ala carte items during breakfast: When this option is selected, your child much pay with cash (or check) for any a la carter items that are purchases during the breakfast session; these purchases cannot be deducted from their meal account.

Do not allow any account purchases for ala carte items during lunch: When this option is selected, your child must pay with cash (or check) for any a la carte items that are purchased during the breakfast session; these purchases cannot be deducted from their meal account.

 

 

• Once all appropriate selections have been make, click the “Save” button. A confirmation will appear, indicating the type of limit(s) being set for your child’s meal account. If this is correct, click “Continue”; otherwise, click “Cancel” and make the appropriate selections:

 

 

• Once the “Continue” button is clicked, the limit selections made will be applied moving forward, for any purchases made.

 

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