Wordware School Lunch Software LCS1000 Mayflower chooses ePayTrak 4.0

Wordware’s robust, reliable, and feature-rich School Lunch Software Mayflower LCS1000. Wordware School Lunch Software LCS1000 Mayflower chooses ePayTrak 4.0 to integrate with their new LCS1000 system. Parents can now view their balances in ePayTrak, make payments and even set auto payments based on low balance values.  EduTrak’s proven technology solutions are hard at work powering improved operational efficiency, enhanced administrative productivity and upgraded convenience at dozens of schools and service organizations across North America.
Offering education program administrators new opportunities to do more with less, our easy-to-implement, fully customizable payment, registration and resource management applications are designed from the ground up to meet the unique needs of a vast array of education organizations.
Wordware’s School Lunch Software Mayflower LCS1000  are designed to integrate seamlessly with current systems, ensuring that existing credentials, readers, and user databases can be retained. The DataBridge allows each of these programs or portals to send information back and forth. With the DataBridge, a school does not need to maintain multiple databases of the same student list, they can maintain one and sync the rest with databridge.
Currently the LCS mayflower works seamlessly with hundreds of Student Information Systems. Many of our customers use Synergy, Infinite Campus, Power School, JMC, Skyward and more. The DataBridge has worked with every SIS that we have encountered. EduTrak maintains and is actively pursuing a variety of strong business and technology partnerships including reseller relationships, technology licensing and cooperative marketing programs.

• Eliminate the need to maintain multiple databases
• Maintain one database and sync the rest
• One to many and many to one
• Facilitate information for multiple departments within the district

“Three factors separated EduTrak. They were affordable, easy to implement and incredibly responsive to our needs.” – David Wagman  PEF President

Under this best-of-breeds partnership, Wordware’s School lunch software platform is integrated with online payment gateway.  EPayTrak 4.0 Features for Families and Students. For families and students, ePayTrak 4.0 provides flexibility and ease of use:

• Individual payment account: Users can set up their own accounts to make payments, pull payment reports, review scheduled transactions, and more!
• Transaction history: Users can easily browse past transactions with a simple click of the mouse
• Browse the school’s offerings: Users can bypass the login process and browse through the site, selecting classes, services, or products to place in their shopping cart. At time of purchase, they will be required to log in, or register for a new account

About Wordware

Wordware, Inc., founded in 1983 and headquartered in Mendota Heights, MN, provides software applications for cafeteria business. Wordware’s  LCS mayflower system is expandable to concessions, school store and could be integrated with Student information system, which makes perfect advance solution for your school. Wordware Inc, Lunch payment system is a simple and secure way for schools to connect, transact and manage all their school payments solutions.
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About EduTrak

With offices in Wayzata, Minnesota and Boulder, Colorado, EduTrak Software is a subsidiary of Advanced Payment Technologies. Our experienced team brings more than a decade of expertise to development and delivery of ecommerce and payment software solutions.
EduTrak Software – Minnesota, 700 Twelve Oaks Center Drive, Suite 252, Wayzata, MN 55391
Toll free:  1-877-EduTrak (338-8725)
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Customer Support: techsupport@edutrak.com

How Safe Are School Lunches?

No one ever confused school lunch with a gourmet meal. But you'd think parents could count on their children getting safe, nutritious food.

When Primetime producers went on surprise inspections of school cafeterias, however, they found stomach-turning conditions that parents never get to see: dead rodents just feet from where food was being prepared, roaches crawling along filthy floors, dishwashers that don't clean children's trays, and food being kept at temperatures where potentially dangerous bacteria can thrive.

Experts who track food safety in schools say such conditions can be found across the country — and that they put children at risk. "Those districts who continue to operate like this are surely going to have a major food-borne illness at some point. It's almost a guarantee," said food consultant Norm Greenberger, who has visited hundreds of school cafeterias.

School Food Illnesses on the Rise

Schools have been feeding children lunch since the National School Lunch Act of 1946. The idea was that nutritious meals would help children grow and learn. But government figures show that over the past decade there have been 300 outbreaks of food illness in schools, affecting 16,000 students — and that such incidents are rising by 10 percent a year.

In 1996, bacteria in spaghetti served at five schools in Sacramento, Calif., made 400 children sick. In 1998, 1,200 students in seven states became ill after eating burritos from a plant in Chicago.

Also in 1998, 12 children became infected with E. coli bacteria that health officials linked to beef tacos served at rural Finley Elementary School in Washington state. One of the children, a 2-year-old girl who doctors believe contracted the infection from a sibling or playmate, was so seriously ill that doctors say she will need kidney transplants before she turns 8.

Starting at the Source

Primetime started its school lunch investigation at the source: the processing plants that supply meat to schools. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the National School Lunch Program, purchases enough food to feed 27 million children every day. The department is also responsible for inspecting every meat plant that supplies schools.

For the Primetime segment, a safety inspector agreed to take a hidden camera to a plant that processes more than a million pounds of chicken for schools each year. The inspector, who requested anonymity, found several chickens with yellow sores indicating an infection under the skin, as well as potentially hazardous fecal matter. The inspector also found filth in machines that box chicken and processing equipment dripping with chicken fat. Documents obtained by Primetime showed that the plant had repeatedly failed tests for salmonella and inspectors say they had demanded improvements, but, they said, the plant kept selling chicken for consumption at schools.

When shown the video, Elsa Murano, the USDA's undersecretary for food safety, said it was "upsetting to say the least." She said the department has "revolutionized" its meat inspection system in the past four or five years, toughening health regulations for plants that process meat.

She confirmed that the USDA sometimes buys meat for the school lunch program from plants that have had health violations in the past, but only if the plants correct the problems "to our satisfaction." In the Finley Elementary School case, the USDA had bought the contaminated beef from a plant that had been cited for 171 critical violations in the previous 18 months.

The USDA buys meat from the lowest bidder that passes government standards, which can cause problems, according to food safety advocate Caroline Smith Dewaal. "The plants that want to sell to the school lunch program are frequently the plants with some of the worst records, because they're the ones who can keep the meat cheap," said Dewaal, food safety director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Cockroaches in the Capital

Even if there are problems at a processing plant, food safety experts say proper handling in school kitchens will kill potentially dangerous bacteria.

But when Primetime accompanied health inspectors on visits to school cafeterias, the inspectors found numerous problems. At Shaw Junior High in Washington, D.C., inspector Ronnie Taylor found two dead rodents just feet away from where workers were preparing pizza for 300 children. Taylor also found cockroaches under a kitchen sink, and a moldy drain that he believed was providing a source of food for the vermin. "The mice, the roaches, will walk across this. It'll become attached to their bodies and legs.... They'll walk across food contact surfaces and tables that are used for prep and they'll contaminate those surfaces," said Taylor, who has been inspecting school cafeterias for 22 years, adding, "This is a terrible situation.... I've never seen it this bad."

According to health experts, roaches can transmit salmonella and dysentery, and rats can also carry disease. Taylor ordered the school to immediately start having meals delivered.

When 14-year-old student Teanna Anderson was shown the conditions in the kitchen, she was horrified. "We're humans. We're not animals. We shouldn't have to eat around stuff like that," she said.

D.C. schools superintendent Paul Vance said he gives the district's schools an overall "B" for food safety. But when shown what Primetime found at Shaw, he said it was "horrific." And when told that two weeks after the inspection the problems had not been fixed, he promised that "consequences will follow." Ten days later, he announced that he had placed Shaw's principal, along with four food workers and the head custodian, on leave pending an internal investigation. The conditions were cleaned up.

Mice in the Suburbs

Primetime also found health violations conditions at Julia Green Elementary in a prosperous suburb of Nashville, Tenn. Inspector Ivone Rodriguez came across one of the most frequent problems inspectors encounter: hot food being kept at the wrong temperature. When she measured turkey fritters, which should be kept warm at 140 degrees or above, she found they were at just 123 degrees. "Leaving it at that temperature for an extended period of time, bacteria can grow and reproduce and then cause an illness," she said, before ordering the cooks to rapidly reheat the fritters.

A test strip revealed that the school's dishwasher did not have any chlorine, meaning it was not sanitizing the plates and removing germs. The school was cited for mouse droppings and insects last spring, and Rodriguez said the latest violations were just as critical.

At Eakin Elementary, also in a well-to-do Nashville suburb, food manager Vanetta Donegan said that last year there so many mice in the kitchen that staff kept a log of rodent sightings. "I'd be sitting at my desk doing paperwork and here they go across the floor. And they'd sit there and look at you like you was crazy, like, what are you doing in their kitchen?," she said.

Nashville school administrators said they have taken care of many of the problems at their schools — including the mice at Eakin — and are working hard to clean up all their cafeterias.

Parents: Check Your Kids' Schools' Kitchen

The parents of the children who were sickened at Finley Elementary in Washington state sued the school district. They won a $4.7 million verdict against the school system, which denies the incident was its fault and has appealed.

One of the sickened students, A.J. Almquist, who was 10 at the time, remembers having nonstop vomiting and bloody diarrhea, and says he was in the worst pain of his life. Since then, his parents have told him to stay away from hot meals at school, and he sits through lunch with just a bottle of water.

"I'm sending my children to school to get a nice hot meal, thinking I'm doing the best thing for him.... And that's what almost killed him, was a school lunch," said Gerri Almquist, A.J.'s mother.

The Almquists have some advice for other parents: When you visit your children's school, don't just go to the classroom to see what they are learning — make sure to go to the cafeteria, to see what they are eating.

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