Serve Smarter
Streamline School Lunch
Orders With Ease

Your Back-End Ally for Frontline Flavor

Since 1999 Hotlunch.com has been the leading nationwide provider of lunch ordering software. With hundreds of loyal clients across North America, Hotlunch.com works with public, private, parochial and charter schools of all sizes. We provide schools, food service providers and offices with cutting edge technology at a very affordable price to help manage and automate lunch programs.

Take the hassle out of processing food orders.

Focus on what you do best

HotLunch.com can help you administer lunches to one or multiple schools and locations from one single account through an easy to use portal. Manage everything one place and enjoy consolidated pricing.

Easily customize the site with your company logo and colors. Separate access for kitchen, staff and finance. Hotlunch.com offers a range of features to help your business like free and reduced meals, inventory, volume discounts and customized meal service.

You can offer individual meal pricing by school or location. Reduce the time spent on administration. Our program is an inexpensive subscription based system offered at a low per student cost. The money you collect goes directly to you.

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Software  Features 

Online software made to fit your needs

Multiple Schools

Easily administer multiple schools from one central portal. Price by different campuses and item sizes.

Nutrition

Add nutrition and allergy information to keep customers better informed.

Ease of use

Pre-bundled menu configurations are available from quick menu creation.

Reporting

Reports available for your kitchen, delivery schedules and routes, schools, finance and banking. Go Paperless, reports are available by email, PDF and CSV for integration into your accounting system.

Customize

Customize the site with your organizations logo and colors. Format changes of fonts etc. using CSS.

After hours

Allow late order customers to choose from a special after hours’ menu.

Customized Meals

Add-on features for dressings, condiments, and free drinks. Provide multiple meal sizes. Provide your customers volume meal plan discounts.

Management

Assign roles and give access to administrators, vendors, finance and staff in your organization limiting access if necessary.

Support

The system has a strong support portal with videos and articles to help administrators navigate.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, the technology is built to enable multi-location operations, so you can serve many schools while managing menus, orders, and logistics from a single dashboard.

Orders from schools are immediately gathered and organised on your Dashboard. You may browse daily, weekly, and monthly order summaries, as well as print kitchen-friendly reports.

Yes, meals may be labelled with allergy or dietary tags, and parents can select menu choices depending on their child’s requirements throughout the ordering process.

Yes, HotLunch.com enables you to create discounts, promo codes, and seasonal specials that may be applied to certain menus or schools.

You may establish number limitations for menu items to help you manage your inventory and prevent overordering. Once the restrictions are met, the meals will no longer be available for ordering.