Planning Your Child's Lunch

BT's onsite dining services team provides students with made-from-scratch, nutritious, and creative meals prepared in our kitchen daily from fresh ingredients that support local vendors. Flik designs menus exclusively for BT in order to meet our allergy, cultural, and dietary needs/preferences. To take advantage of this convenient service, follow these steps:

Plan your child's meals by reviewing the menu.
Purchase a meal plan and save on delicious lunches - registration for first semester is now closed. We will notify families when the registration window for second semester opens.
Set up your EZ School Lunch account.
Lower School families, preorder your child's lunches using EZ School Lunch.

Read below for more information on lunch menus, division-level information, purchasing meal plans, and preordering lunch. If you have questions regarding the lunch program or meal plans, you can email dining@brownell.edu.

Lunch Menu

Check out the menu! Monthly menus will be posted prior to the start of each month. Menus rotate seasonally and the most popular items may be repeated more frequently than others. The menu includes a daily vegetarian option, designated with a “V” on the menu. For your ease and convenience, the menu is organized in a manner such that it easily lines up with our pre-ordering system, EZ School Lunch.

Division-Level Information

Early Years, Kindergarten, and first grade

Parents/guardians are required to preorder lunch for their child using EZ School Lunch.
Lunches must be preordered by 12:00 pm noon on the prior school day.
Classroom teachers will review orders each morning with students.
Meals will be delivered to the classroom.
Daily combo meal price: $6.00 (or less with a prepaid meal plan).
Students will choose from three entree items:
- Fanfare entree - BT's most popular dishes offered on regular rotation.
- Specialty entree - delicious meals meant to expand students' tastes.
- Deli sandwich.
Combo meals are served with two sides and a choice of low-fat white or chocolate milk (make your selection using " Milk w/Combo" option). Once a week a sweet treat will be served as part of the combo meal deal at no additional charge.
A la carte milk or sweet treat items are available for those not purchasing a combo meal.

GradeS 2-4

Parents/guardians are required to preorder lunch for their child using EZ School Lunch.
Lunches must be preordered by 12:00 pm noon on the prior school day.
Classroom teachers will review orders each morning with students.
Daily combo meal price: $6.00 (or less with a prepaid meal plan).
Students who purchase a daily combo meal will choose from three entree items:
- Fanfare entree - BT's most popular dishes offered on regular rotation.
- Feature entree - delicious meals meant to expand students' tastes.
- Deli sandwich.
Combo meals are served with the choice of two of the following options:
- Two hot side items offered that day.
- Nibbles Bar (i.e., fresh fruits and vegetables).
Combo meals are also served with a choice of low-fat white or chocolate milk or WaterWorks infused water.
Once a week a sweet treat will be served as part of the combo meal deal.

Individual food items may be purchased to accompany students' combo meal or to enhance their packed lunch from home. Add-on sides or second entree and Grab and Go items are available for an additional charge.

Grades 5 -12

Daily combo meal price: $6.50 (or less with a prepaid meal plan).
Students who purchase a daily combo meal will choose from four entree items:
- Fanfare entree - BT's most popular dishes offered on regular rotation.
- Specialty entree - delicious meals meant to expand students' tastes.
- Deli sandwich.
- Soup and salad bar.
Fanfare, specialty, and deli sandwich combo meals are served with two sides.
Combo meals are also served with a choice of low-fat white or chocolate milk, fountain drink, or WaterWorks infused water.
Once a week a sweet treat will be served as part of the combo meal deal.
Individual food items may be purchased to accompany students' combo meal or to enhance their packed lunch from home. Add-on sides or second entree and Grab and Go items are available for an additional charge.

Purchasing Meal Plans

For even better deals on well-balanced lunches, we recommend purchasing a prepaid meal plan to realize up to 35% savings.

No Risk Trial Period: Within the first two weeks following purchase of the prepaid meal plan, you may cancel your registration by emailing dining@brownell.edu. Any charges made during that two-week period will be adjusted to the daily rate.

How to Register: The last day to register for a prepaid meal plan for first semester is Friday, September 10. Register using this form. All meal plans and dining charges will be billed to your FACTS account.

Semester Meal Plan Billing

Billing options:

Single invoice - billed on August 31 with a September 10 due date (or upon registration if after September 1).
Two invoices - half billed on August 31 with a September 10 due date and half billed on December 31 with a January 10 due date.
Monthly invoices - spread over five months from August to December and due on the 10th of the following month beginning September 10 (or upon registration and all remaining months through December).

Annual Meal Plan Billing

Billing options:

Single invoice - billed on August 31 with a September 10 due date (or upon registration if after September 1).
Two invoices - half billed on August 31 with a September 10 due date and half billed on December 31 with a January 10 due date.
Monthly invoices - spread over nine months from August to April and due on the 10th of the following month beginning September 10 (or upon registration and all remaining months through April).

Prepaid meal plans will not be refunded, discounted, or adjusted for non-use due to student absence/choice, weather cancellations, field trips, etc. If a student withdraws during the school year, the balance of any prepaid meal plan may be refundable upon request.

Preordering Lunch

Lower School parents/guardians are required to preorder their child's lunch using EZ School Lunch. It is highly recommended that Middle and Upper School students also preorder their lunches but it is not required.

Benefits of EZ School Lunch

Parents/guardians can guide students in their meal selection.
Parents/guardians have access to all transaction history - better visibility of dining charges that will flow through FACTS incidental billing.
Accurate counts result in reduced food waste.
Better alignment of food availability with demand/desired selection.
Easy confirmation of meal items online by the cashier resulting in faster lunch lines.

Using EZ School Lunch

Refer to this flyer for instructions on setting up your account. Please start on page 1 with the “How to Reset Your Password” section. The BT Business Office has already created accounts for parents/guardians using the email addresses you provided in Veracross.
Select “Forgot Password” and complete the setup process.
Once you are registered in EZ School Lunch, Lower School families have the ability to make preorder selections one week in advance.
The Meal Preorder tab has the main menu options (e.g., FanFare Meal, Specialty Meal, etc) that correspond to the daily lunch menu.
Remember to submit preorders by 12:00 pm noon the school day prior.

Note, if the steps above do not work for resetting your password, please follow the instructions on page 2 for “New Parent Signup.”

Set Up EZ School Lunch Account

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does lunch cost?

Additional entrees, sides, drinks, and grab 'n go items are also available for purchase. Please note, the table of grab 'n go items below is just a sampling of options and pricing. Options may change based on availability and those changes may not be reflected in the table. Students will make selections at the cashier and items will be billed with the monthly incidental food service charges. Please advise your student of your purchasing guidelines.

A La Carte and Grab 'n Go

Why is the Lower School lunch a lower price than Middle/Upper School lunch?

Can my student add on additional items or go back for seconds?

Are there meal plan refunds if my child misses school because of COVID-19? What happens if the lunch service is interrupted for the entire school?

Do I have to preorder my child's lunch?

How often is the sweet treat available? Does it cost extra?

How do I track my child's a la carte purchases? How will I be billed for them?

Any purchases made to a student's account at the cash register can be viewed at anytime using EZ School Lunch.

All charges will be paid through your FACTS account. The billing cutoff is the 26th of each month and invoicing is due the 10th of the following month.

Please note, the cash balance on EZ School Lunch is for visibility/tracking purposes and preorder only. We are NOT using this system to track or collect funds because FACTS billing is significantly more efficient and has lower credit card and ACH fees.

What does the combo meal include?

Are there any guidelines or restrictions if a student brings a packed lunch?

All food items must be self-contained, easy to open without teacher assistance, and nut-free. To keep sticky spills to a minimum, no fruit cups, yogurt tubes, or sugary drinks are allowed in Lower School.
To minimize spill risks, please send your child to school with a reusable water bottle pre-filled with their name on it. Filling stations are available throughout campus for easy refills. Water bottles are to be brought home by the student each day for cleaning.
No refrigerators are available for student use.
Students are not permitted to have outside food orders delivered to campus.

Are snacks provided in Early Years and kindergarten?

Meet the Flik Team

Brownell Talbot's Flik team includes management oversight by District Manager Bernadette Tetlow and Director of Dining Services Jon Dye. Dye is locally based and will work with BT in a shared capacity with another account. Executive Chef Shannon Nelson will lead the BT food service staff in the kitchen.

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