Budget Integrity

CKC Good Food ensures healthy budgets and joyful eaters by maintaining peak participation levels in your nutrition program and providing expertise and guidance that save you time and expenses.

Providing True Value

CKC Good Food delivers true value for your food service program with our chef-created menus, which help increase participation, and our unparalleled operational and client support.

Our per-meal bid prices are often pennies more than bargain-priced vendors because our bids include:

  • A 6-week menu rotation
  • Delicious meals tested and approved by kids and adults
  • Daily food prep and, as needed, delivery
  • Disposable/biodegradable utensils
  • HACCP and server training
  • USDA Administrative Review support, if applicable
  • Procurement, including commodities management, if applicable
  • Ongoing communications and training
  • Promotional tools
  • Regular visits by our Client Services Managers for training, compliance verification and identifying areas for improvement

Budget Calculator

CKC Good Food’s proprietary Budget Calculator gives Kitchen Managers a clear view of their food service performance—projecting annual revenue, expenses and profit or loss based on real site data like participation, service days, labor and meal pricing. It simplifies budget tracking and can improve profitability by clearly delineating the effects of increased participation and other variables. More importantly, it reinforces the value of working with a partner committed to nourishing your bottom line and the people you serve.

Maximizing Commodities

If you serve meals under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), we will help maximize your USDA Foods (commodities) entitlements and usage. Our menus use commodity foods first, which helps keep your food costs as low as possible and eliminates the potential of unused commodities sitting in storage.

By growing the number of students participating in your school lunch program, we help increase your school’s USDA Foods entitlements for the following year, further reducing your food costs. CKC Good Food promises to return to your school all USDA Foods reimbursements received on your behalf, less storage fees. In recent years, we have returned more than $1 million in commodities reimbursements to our client schools annually.

Returned to schools in commodities allocations annually
$1,400,000
Approximate entitlements earned annually
$1,500,000

“CKC Good Food has been amazing. They are accommodating and the staff are phenomenal.”

Maeseu Pha
College Prep Academy

“It is so nice to have a company that cares about the product they serve and the people they serve that product to. We have been very happy with CKC Good Food.”

Judy Stoos
ISD 917

“Working with CKC Good Food is easy – it’s easy to give feedback, it’s easy to get an answer, it’s easy to submit orders. No matter the challenge, we’re always able to figure it out together.”

Jennifer Meyer
Anna’s Bananas Daycare and Preschool