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. 

 

We have some exciting news to share with you !!!

 

For the 2024-25 school year, The Villages Charter School (VCS) is able to offer a breakfast and a lunch to every student … at no cost to you.

 

VCS will be implementing an option within the National School Lunch & Breakfast Programs known as the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), funded by federal tax dollars.  

 

Schools that participate in CEP can provide healthy, reimbursable breakfasts and lunches to all students who choose to take the required meal components.  This eliminates the collection of household applications.

 

Your child will still be able to purchase a’ la carte items (additional entree, snacks, drinks, etc.) that are not included in the basic breakfast or lunch.  Through EZ School Pay you will be able to monitor your student’s account as well as add funds so your child can purchase additional items. Full instruction on how to sign up for EZ School Pay is located on our website www.tvcs.org under Food Service. 

 

If you have any questions about CEP, please contact our accounts administrator at joseph.hornstein@tvcs.org or call (352) 259-0044 X12141. 

 

School Menu and Ala-Carte Prices

 

 

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

Although under CEP, reimbursable breakfast and lunch meals have no charge, our additional meals and ala carte items do incur a charge. Every student has a credit limit of $15.00. Once that credit limit is reached, students must pay for any extras with cash until the negative balance is lowered. 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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