Cashier Training: Offer Vs. Serve

Valerie Crouch, SNS School and Community Nutrition Kentucky Dept of Education Cashier Training: Offer Vs. Serve

Required for high school • Other age/grade levels optional • Must offer all 5 lunch components • May decline 2 out of the 5 components Offer Versus Serve (OVS) - Lunch

Must offer enough for each student to take the full required amount of each component May prepare less of the least popular choice and more of the more popular choice Must be set at a single price OVS -Lunch

Meat/Meat Alternate (M/MA) Fruits (F) Vegetables (V) Grains (G) Fluid Milk (Milk) Lunch Meal Components

Must take a minimum of ½ cup of either fruit, vegetable, or fruit and vegetable combined Allowed to take smaller portions of the fruit and vegetable components only The minimum creditable serving size for a fruit or a vegetable is 1/8 cup. OVS – Lunch Fruit or Vegetable

Fish taco includes ¼ c. fresh tomatoes Student selects the fish taco with 8 oz. milk This is not a reimbursable meal since the minimum ½ c. portion of the fruit or vegetable has not been met. OVS Creditable Serving Example 1

Fish Taco includes ¼ c. tomatoes, ¼ cup black beans, and ¼ c. lettuce Student selects the fish taco (G,M/MA,V) and 8 oz. milk This is a reimbursable meal since the minimum ½ c. portion of fruit or vegetables has been met. OVS Creditable Serving Example 2

Are there at least three food components? Yes or No If yes, is one a fruit or a vegetable? Yes or No If yes, is it at least half a cup? Yes or No If you can answer “YES” to each question, then the meal is reimbursable! Reimbursable Lunch Meal

Reimbursable Meal for K-8? Grilled Chicken Wrap 2 oz eq Meat/Meat Alternate WW Tortilla 2 oz Grains ⅛ cup Red/Orange Vegetable ⅛ cup Legumes Vegetable Not Reimbursable!

Reimbursable Meal for K-8? Black Bean Salad ½ cup Legumes ¼ cup Other Vegetable Carrots ½ cup Red/Orange Vegetable Hamburger on a WW Bun 2 oz Meat/Meat Alternate 1.5 oz eq Grains Milk 1 cup Milk Yes, reimbursable!

Use of OVS in the SBP is optional at all grade levels. If a school operates breakfast under OVS: *At least four food items from the food components must be offered; and *All students, at any grade level, must select at least three food items in the applicable minimum required serving size *Beginning in SY 2014-15, one selection must be at least ½ c. of fruit. Breakfast 2014/15

Please take the Post Assessment Quiz at this time. Thank you! Questions regarding this training can be addressed to: Programmatic Delivery Section of School and Community Nutrition, KDE Cashier’s training: Post assessment

Cashier Training: Offer Vs. Serve