Welcome from the Raytown Food Service Department. We would like to help new and returning students and their families become familiar with the Food Service Program. We prepare nutritious breakfast and lunch meals for the students in each school.

Menus are written with student involvement utilizing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The menus are analyzed for protein, calcium, iron, fat, cholesterol, fiber, vitamin A and vitamin C.

Breakfast and Lunch Menus are available in the menu to the left and a copy is posted in each classroom.

We are committed to offering variety to our students. Elementary students choose from three entrees. Middle school students choose from five entrees. High school students choose from eight entrees each day. Alternative school students choose from three entrees. Some of these entrees are standing items available every day. Each grade level can choose from five side dishes.

To avoid a la carte pricing, elementary students must choose at least two side items and secondary students must choose three side items. We encourage students to choose all five side items.

Seconds on fruits and vegetables are available upon request (except potatoes).

As a department, we are committed to the nutrition and satisfaction of our customers. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.


Program History

History of School Lunch ProgramsNational School Lunch Program (NSLP)
Missouri’s own President Harry S. Truman signed the National School Lunch Act on June 4, 1946.  Though school food service began long before 1946, the Act authorized the National School Lunch Program (NLSP).  The legislation came in response to claims that many American men had been rejected for World War II military service because of diet-related health problems.  The federally assisted meal program was established as “a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities.”

The National School Lunch Act has since been amended numerous times.  Public and nonprofit private schools and residential childcare institutions may participate in the NSLP.  This program also offers after school snacks in sites that meet eligibility requirements.  The NSLP is celebrated each year during National School Lunch Week in October.

 School Breakfast Program
On October 11, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.  The Act established the School Breakfast Program (SBP).  The SBP is a federally assisted meal program that provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free breakfasts to children in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions.  President Johnson remarked during the signing of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, “good nutrition is essential to good learning.”  Appropriately, this Act was signed during National School Lunch Week.  The SBP is celebrated annually during National School Breakfast Week in March.