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Offer Versus Serve
Presented By: Gloria Zunker, ConsultantGrants Coordination and School Support
School Nutrition ProgramsAugust 2011
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What is Offer Versus Serve?
a. An alternative way to start a tennis match?
b. A food service style where students serve themselves?
c. A new way to offer more food choices on school menus?
d. A system designed to decrease food waste and give students greater flexibility?
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Offer Versus Serve
•d. A system designed to decrease food waste and give students greater flexibility.
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What is Offer Versus Serve?
Offer Versus Serve (or OVS) is a concept that applies to Child Nutrition menu planning and to the determination of reimbursable school meals. OVS allows students to decline some of the food offered in a school lunch or breakfast.
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Who, When, and Where
• OVS is:– Required at senior high schools.– Optional at lower grade levels.– Optional at breakfast in all grades.
• Who decides?– School Food Authority decides:
• Whether to implement OVS when optional and in what grades.
• Whether students below high school can decline 1 or 2 food items at lunch.
– Students decide what foods to decline.
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OVS Reimbursable Lunches
For OVS lunch to be reimbursable,•Schools must:
• offer at least the minimum serving sizes for all 5 food items.
• price lunch as a unit.
OVS Reimbursable Lunches
• Students must:
• select the minimum number of items required (at least 3 of 5 for senior high; 3, 4 or 5 for lower grades).
• take full serving to count toward a reimbursable meal.
• Students may:
• decline any food item, including entrée or milk.
• take smaller portions of declined food items (does not affect price).
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OVS Reimbursable Lunches
Note:
• If a student chooses not to select at least three of the food components, then the lunch is not reimbursable and the student must pay according to a la carte pricing.
• Every effort should be made at the point of service to encourage the student to take an additional component.
• Staff counting and claiming must be trained to recognize meal components to include those in combination foods.
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OVS Reimbursable Breakfasts
•General requirements for OVS at breakfast (optional at all grade levels).
•Schools must:• offer at least the minimum servings
sizes of all 4 food items from 3 or 4 food components.
• price breakfast as a unit.
OVS Reimbursable Breakfasts
• Students must:
• select at least 3 food items.
• take full servings to count toward a reimbursable meal.
• Students may:
• decline any food item, including the milk.
• take a smaller portion of the declined food item.
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Menu Planning Options
• Breakfast OVS rules for Enhanced Food Based Menu Planning are the same as Traditional Food Based.
• There is an option in enhanced food based menu plan for the grade group 7-12 to offer one additional serving of grains/breads per day.
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NuMenus OVS
• NuMenus
• Minimum of three menu items must be offered
• Must select at least two items
• Decline a maximum of one item
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OVS Key Advantages
• Policy for extra portions at extra cost is unaffected by OVS.
• Reducing plate waste can reduce the cost of the program.
• Students:• select foods making it more likely
they will eat the food.• may refuse any food item.• may take any combination.• are encouraged to take complete
meals.
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INFORMATION FOR FOOD-BASED MENU PLANNING
• Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
• http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/foodbuyingguide.html
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Contact MDE School Nutrition Programs at:
Phone: 517-373-3347
or
E-mail:
MDE-SchoolNutrition@michigan.gov