Waterloo Food Service

Food Services Director:  Barb Rach

   brach@waterloovikings.org             330-947-4070

2025-2026

ALL Waterloo Students

receive FREE MEALS

Breakfast & Lunch

BREAKFAST

FREE to ALL Students

Breakfast is offered DAILY at 7:45 am

LUNCH

FREE to ALL Students

Adult Lunch (does not include milk) $4.00

A la Carte Entrée with meal $1.75

A la Carte Entrée No meal $2.25

Chef Salad Only $2.75

Milk only $0.50

USDA requirements for a complete full school meal:

Students are required to take at least 3 of the 5 food components,

 One component must be a fruit or vegetable serving to be counted as a full meal. 

Students purchasing anything less than a full meal will be charged a la carte pricing.

All students will receive FREE meals due to the District becoming eligible for Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)

The Waterloo Local School District has a change to its policy for serving meals to children served under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program for the 2025-2026 school year. Waterloo has qualified to operate the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), provide breakfast and lunch to all students at NO CHARGE and eliminate the collection of meal applications for free, reduced-price, and paid student meals. This new approach reduces burdens for both families and school administrators and helps ensure that students receive nutritious meals. 

My School MENUS 

Link to ALL Waterloo School menus

                                                               GO TO THE LINK FOR MENUS         VIEW THE SIDE BAR TO FIND 

                                                                    *Links to download mobile app and videos how to navigate menus

                                                                                                                           *Meal pricing       *Print  menu by meal for week or month

*Build a meal to calculate meal nutrition facts- Calories, Carbohydrates & Fat

Please make sure Students have money on account each day to purchase extra items if would like.

 (must have a complete meal to receive food free)

(any money left on account stays on account for next school year)

BREAKFAST IS OFFERED DAILY at 7:45 am

FINGER SCANNING

HOW IDENTIMETRICS WORKS

Waterloo Food Service uses PaySchools Point of Sales system in conjunction with Identifier Biometric finger scanners to process sales in the cafeteria.

When a student is enrolled an account is established for each student and the index finger on each hand of each student is scanned into the biometric system to identify the student when they go through the meal service line.

This allows students to move through the meal line faster and prevents overt identification of students who qualify for the free/reduced meal program.

IF a student does not enroll in finger scanning the student MUST learn & enter their 6 digit PIN each time at the Point of Sale.

Some fact about biometric finger scanning

• We use biometric finger scanning because it’s fast, accurate, cost-effective & secure

• NO fingerprint images stored. Only encrypted numerical representations of the unique points of the fingerprint are stored.

• identiMetrics never takes your fingerprint, only unique points.  The actual fingerprint cannot be recreated from the encrypted template. 

• identiMetrics uses a proprietary algorithm that can only be used with identiMetrics software.

• This is not a fingerprint, as the students grow; we must periodically rescan because the numerical representations change.