Many families across the country depend on school meals to help keep their children fed and nourished each day. While a large number of schools remain closed due to the COVID-19 Outbreak, many of our district District customers need to find ways to serve emergency meals to students in their communities. This guide will go over how MCS Newton can help your District track those meals.
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This feature is available in the following versions: 10.0.11, 10.1.8, and 10.5.1. |
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ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are running a Newton 10.0 version you MUST be on .NET Framework 4.5.2 or higher PRIOR TO upgrading to Newton 10.1.0 or higher. You may check to see if your computers are up-to-date by running the Outdated Workstations Report. Upgrading to a .1+ version also REQUIRES you to update DataCenter and Franklin to .1+ versions. |
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The Miscellaneous (Misc.) School Counts feature will allow Districts to track the number of meals they are serving.
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Setup Misc School
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Counts
To get started, you will need to setup set up the Price Categories for the meals you will be serving. By default, we've added four new counts to handle free students and adults at breakfast and lunch. You can change those or add more if necessary.
Perform the following steps to setup Price Categoriesset up Misc School Counts.
In order for meals entered as Misc School Counts to be counted in your claim, you must:
Assign a Meal Type
Assign a Price Category or mark it as Area Eligible.
From the Admin & Maintenance ribbon, select Miscellaneous Setup, then select Misc School Counts.
Enter your Misc School Count Price Categories.
Note: You may change the Adult Price Category as needed in accordance with District policy.
When finished, Select Save & Close.
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Select the Cafeteria which served as your Emergency Site from the Newton Menu.
Select the Start New Operating Day checkbox from the options on the left, then select an Operating Day from the calendar tool.
Select the Post Operating Day checkbox from the options on the left. From the Bank Deposits tab within the Post Operating Day Window, select the checkbox labeled No Cash Was Collected for Todaycash was collected today.
Select the Misc Counts tab within the Post Operating Day Window, then enter the meal counts for each Misc School Count Price Category.
Select the Daily Figures tab and select the checkbox labeled Reviewed. Select Ok when finished.
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Daily Recap The Daily Recap report breaks down meal totals by status to include paid, charged, prepaid, meals earned and state reimbursed totals to include the typed type of meals, cash collected, total meals served, miscellaneous sales, and sales of the day. Additionally, food cash and other cash incomes, deposits posted, deposits entered, variance amounts, net charges, deposits affecting receipts (if applicable), customers on file, miscellaneous figures (if applicable) and labor hours (if applicable) are included. |
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Federal Edit Check The Federal Edit Check report displays daily counts from the beginning of the current month to the current date and includes meals served, enrollment, and attendance numbers. The Federal Edit Check numbers honor a cafeteria's "claim at" configuration. |
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A message from your MCS Team |
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We are keeping all of our Districts in our minds and our hearts. Please stay safe and know that we are here to help in any way we can. Thank you for everything you are doing to support our communities, and thank you for choosing Heartland! |