What Changes at Board Scale
- Standardization — allergy policies and subsidy eligibility rules need to apply consistently across every school, not vary by who happens to be administering each one
- Aggregate reporting — boards need board-wide NSFP and provincial compliance and spend reports, not forty separate per-school reports stitched together by hand
- Vendor coordination at scale — the same vendors may serve multiple schools within a board, requiring consistent order and payment handling
Why Spreadsheets Break Down Here
At one school, reporting is tedious. At board scale, it usually means a coordinator emailing every principal for their numbers, waiting on whichever ones respond late, and reconciling formats that drifted apart because each school's admin built their own spreadsheet independently. That process doesn't just cost hours — it introduces exactly the kind of inconsistency a funding audit is likely to flag. Petit Lunch was built to remove that email-and-spreadsheet loop entirely, not just make it faster.
How Petit Lunch Handles Multi-School Administration
Petit Lunch is built as a multi-tenant platform — each school manages its own day-to-day ordering and roster, while board-level administrators get aggregate compliance and spend visibility across every school in the board without collecting a single report by hand. Subsidy accounts and hardship approvals stay managed at the individual-school level, since eligibility and privacy are inherently school-specific, but the NSFP, provincial, and general compliance reporting rolls up automatically from the same order and subsidy data every school is already generating.
"If your board's current process for compliance reporting is a coordinator emailing every principal and waiting for spreadsheets back, that's the exact gap board-level software is built to close."
Frequently Asked Questions
Can one platform manage food programs across multiple schools in a board?
Yes, if it's built for multi-tenancy — each school operates independently day-to-day, while board administrators get aggregate reporting across all of them without manual collection. Petit Lunch is built this way by default, not as a custom setup for larger boards.
Do allergy and subsidy policies need to be the same across every school in a board?
Boards often want consistent policy application, though specific implementation can vary by school. On Petit Lunch, the same rules apply platform-wide by default, which helps avoid inconsistent application across schools.
Does board-level reporting on Petit Lunch include NSFP and provincial compliance data?
Yes — board administrators get the same NSFP, Ontario, Quebec, and general provincial reports available at the school level, aggregated across every school in the board, generated from live order and subsidy data rather than collected school by school.
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