Serving Lunch Quick Tutorial

MBA Plugins > MBA Cafe > Serve Meal
Under the column Lunch Menus, click on Lunch Menu
At the top right, click the box that says “Automatically add first meal”
At the top right, then click, the box “Automatically submit order”
Scan in the first student
For the first student of the lunch line, you may have to click click “Complete order”.
1. If you randomly scan a student with a big negative balance, it will prompt you to confirm
If you don’t have the student’s ID badge, you can type in their last name to find them in that lunch ID box
When done, click on “exit menu” at the top left.

Depositing Cash / Check into student’s Lunch Account

Find the student in PowerSchool
Student Profile > Lunch Programs
At the bottom of the page, it will show a “current balance”
On this page will also show if their lunch is Free/ Reduced / or Direct Certified Free

MBA Plugins > MBA Cafe > Cafe Manager Screens
Click on Generate Transactions
Click In the box that says “last name or lunch ID”
Scan the students ID number, then click the student’s name
With your mouse, Click “Select Students”
Click in the box that says “last name or lunch ID”
Scan the badge card, then click the student’s name
Click “Add to current students”
Repeat through your lunch cards
Under the drop down for “menu”, please then select “Milk (Alacarte), then Milk “Milk”.
This will then charge all students in the list .30 for regular milk.
Review for accuracy
Click “Submit Transactions”
It would be best to handle students who buy a lactose milk ($.60) separately.

MBA Plugins > MBA Cafe > (reports will show up in the menu)
You can also see a list under the Reports heading MBA Plugins > MBA Cafe > MBA Cafe
Most likely you’ll want to run the “Meal Count Report” or the “Transaction Detail Report” for daily operations
You can run a Deposit report to see what was deposited over a given time frame
Most reports have options to set the days you wish the report to run over, or filters to narrow down information