The mission of Anchor Bay Food Service is to provide healthy and satisfying food for students to help enable their minds and bodies to reach their full potential.

All food service staff are certified in Safety and Sanitization. Staff efficiently and courteously serves appealing, nutritionally balanced meals, to help establish healthy choices.

Anchor Bay Schools Food Service Department continually strives to provide the best quality meals at an affordable price. We understand that a hungry child has difficulty learning so we encourage students to take advantage of our school meals. Our district participates in the National School Lunch Program, which allows us to offer protein, fruits, vegetables, grains/breads and milk as part of a well balanced diet.

• Breakfast $1.00 (Served at HS, MSN, MSS, Macdonald, Maconce, and Naldrett)
• Elementary Lunch $2.00
• Secondary Lunch $2.25
• Reduced Lunch $0.40

To qualify for the lunch price, a menu must provide five meal components as designated by the USDA. These five components are, a protein item (or entrée with no less than 2 oz. of protein), a bread item, a serving each of fruit or fruit juice and vegetable and milk. The USDA strictly specifies portion size of each component.

This concept was first developed by the National School Lunch Program to help reduce food waste. Anchor Bay Schools provides offer vs. serve in all of our school buildings. While the menu must offer at least the five components listed above, students must select at least three of the five items to meet the meal qualifications. By giving students a choice, we prevent food from going to waste. Milk and juice is always offered, but is limited to one each.

We encourage anyone who feels they may qualify for free or reduced price meals to fill out a Free/Reduced Meal Application. These applications are available at all of the school offices district wide or on the food service website. Please fill out the application thoroughly and return promptly. Once the application is processed, a notification letter will be sent home indicating whether or not your child qualifies.

• Application Information
• Instructions
• Application

The Food Service Department has the capability to receive your child's school lunch money using your credit card. This payment would be for lunches only, not ala carte or snacks. This is an online prepay web page that you can access at www.cafeprepay.com. Just visit the site and follow the online instructions. Internet payments of $25.00 or more can be made for any child in our district and a small fee of $1.50 will be charged per increment. We think this service will save time for those of you interested in this form of payment.

The Food Service Department is a self-funded department within the school district. We do not take local tax dollars to run the food service department and we do not receive money from the school districts general fund budget. All expenses, food, labor, supplies etc. are paid using breakfast and lunch sales, federal and state reimbursement money and catering income. It is therefore critical that as your child purchases meals, he/she keeps money in their account or brings cash as needed. We do not offer credit to secondary students and we offer one credit to elementary students. It is imperative for the success of our food service department that everyone stays current and updated with their cafeteria accounts. Thank you for your understanding.