Dining at Nardin

Our dining hall team strives to nourish our school population with scratch cooked meals while investing in the surrounding community and sustaining our environment through our waste diversion initiative.  Student participation supported an average dining hall waste diversion rate of 86.56% over the 11 years of the program to this point. Additionally, we work with many preferred local partners including Natural Upcycling, Wendel’s Poultry, Produce Peddlers, Rosina, Costanzo’s, Father Sam’s Bakery, and Buffalo Biodiesel.  It is our pleasure to include your family as a local partner for the 12th year of our innovative scratch cooked meals program. The nature of our sustainable dining hall does not allow for participation in any federal school lunch program and meals may be purchased following these guidelines.

 

To participate in the hot lunch program, a student must have funds in their EZ School Lunch account which is housed in Blackbaud.  Links to EZ School Lunch as well as PDFs containing detailed user instructions are available by the beginning of the academic year. Freshly prepared soups are available as well as rotating grab and go items under the heat lamps.  Those items in addition to the sandwich and salad bar bar option offer great alternatives to the daily scratch cooked hot meal offerings. Both sandwich/salad bar plates and daily entree plates will be available for $6.25. 

 

Funds designated for the Dining Hall may be added to student accounts two ways; either online through the EZ School Lunch platform or via checks payable to Nardin Academy and remitted through the business officer or dining hall. Additionally, the platform allows for the set up of email reminders for low account balances or the set up for automatic renewal of funds.

 

Our goal continues to be the purchase and preparation of as much locally sourced and sustainable food as possible allowing us to make it easy for you and your children to make good choices and enjoy healthful, tasty meals. Be assured that our sustainable dining hall offerings will be prepared in our kitchen under strict sanitary conditions with the health and safety of your students and our dining hall team as our priority.  Many thanks in advance for your continued support as Nardin’s sustainable dining hall continues to evolve.