Anonymous wrote:Anyone familiar with Wholesome Food Services?

Our school uses Wholesome Food Services. I'm not sure how they get away with using "Wholesome" in the name, as it's regular fast casual options in the area like Chick-Fil-A, Moby Dick, Pete's Pizza, etc., but if your kid likes those places then they'll like it. I'm pretty sure the menu items are the regular sizes of things, so cost is $10-18/day depending on what your kid orders. Not sure if the vendors have smaller sizes for elementary schools.

Anyone familiar with Wholesome Food Services?

Anonymous wrote:I worked for Yay. No longer have a job

Serve us the tea!

I worked for Yay. No longer have a job

I had to use Yay Lunch's administrative school page and sometimes it just didn't work. I wondered how they got away with that and... I guess they didn't.

Anonymous wrote:Yay lunch is a $hitty company. They are going to go down the tubes. But I guess that's what happens when stay a home mom gets an "idea."

Better for them to sit around and be catty on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the owners of Yay Lunch go bankrupt. Their entirely unprofessional abandonment of hundreds or thousands of customers across the region, with virtually zero notice in the middle of a school year, reveals that the people behind this service are unworthy of running a business that feeds children. Shameful behavior.

Really? This seems like an over reaction. Yay lunch is a luxury. No big deal that it’s gone.

Hundreds and hundreds of students relied on this service for daily hot lunch service. Hardly a luxury. When you service that many children you have a special responsibility not to flake out in the middle of school year… I don’t care what the reasons are. They should and will go out of business… sooner the better.

You make it sound like the kids are gonna starve because hot lunch isn’t available. This service was very expensive. Parents have been given plenty of notice to grocery shop and pack lunch.

+1. If your kid is un-picky enough and the parent has a low enough bar for Yay to be satisfactory, then there are all sorts of frozen foods/quick sandwiches that are an option. They take literally 5 min to make. If that time can’t be found the night before or morning of, then you need to re-evaluate your lifestyle.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the owners of Yay Lunch go bankrupt. Their entirely unprofessional abandonment of hundreds or thousands of customers across the region, with virtually zero notice in the middle of a school year, reveals that the people behind this service are unworthy of running a business that feeds children. Shameful behavior.

Really? This seems like an over reaction. Yay lunch is a luxury. No big deal that it’s gone.

Hundreds and hundreds of students relied on this service for daily hot lunch service. Hardly a luxury. When you service that many children you have a special responsibility not to flake out in the middle of school year… I don’t care what the reasons are. They should and will go out of business… sooner the better.

You make it sound like the kids are gonna starve because hot lunch isn’t available. This service was very expensive. Parents have been given plenty of notice to grocery shop and pack lunch.

Anonymous wrote:Sort of like the Lucy Calkins of food service.

The above has to be quote-of-the-day.

To be fair, Yay lunch was great last year. I think it oversold for this year based on that success and couldn’t scale up successfully to meet the demand.

Funny how so many private schools with supposedly bright admin gave their business to yay lunch. Sort of like the Lucy Calkins of food service.

The head of the company has a BA from Wharton. An MBA from Northwestern. Private equity money recently invested. Numerous jobs in the food industry and was a partner at BCG. And they can’t get an apple into a kids lunch seamlessly? It’s a failed Ed tech venture that looked good on paper and couldn’t execute.

Yay lunch is a $hitty company. They are going to go down the tubes. But I guess that's what happens when stay a home mom gets an "idea."

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the owners of Yay Lunch go bankrupt. Their entirely unprofessional abandonment of hundreds or thousands of customers across the region, with virtually zero notice in the middle of a school year, reveals that the people behind this service are unworthy of running a business that feeds children. Shameful behavior.

Really? This seems like an over reaction. Yay lunch is a luxury. No big deal that it’s gone.

Hundreds and hundreds of students relied on this service for daily hot lunch service. Hardly a luxury. When you service that many children you have a special responsibility not to flake out in the middle of school year… I don’t care what the reasons are. They should and will go out of business… sooner the better.

Anonymous wrote:[url]https://www.food-management.com/k-12-schools/yay-lunch-aims-elevate-school-dining
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Six weeks ago the owner was talking about expanding! What on earth happened at Yay Lunch?

Yay Lunch is turning out to be the Whittle version of school food service companies.