Food Services
Staff Members
2024-2025 School Year Changes
Subject: Exciting Changes Coming to TUSD Foodservice in the 24/25 SY
Tombstone Unified School District is excited to announce two brand new partnerships within our foodservice department. These partnerships will help to better serve our students as well as assist our parents with ease of menu access, meal payments, lunch account tracking and will increase the variety of foods being served to our students.
Our first brand new partnership is with our foodservice management company, Southwest Foodservice Excellence, SFE. They are a leader in foodservice management and will be taking the lead in our cafeterias on a day-to-day basis. They will not only provide a friendly and helpful staff but will also provide nutritious healthy meals with a variety of choices. We are excited to see the changes they will be bringing to our foodservice program.
We are also excited to announce that we will be launching a new, easy-to-use portal that is being facilitated by Linq Technologies. Linq Technologies is a leading provider of all-in-one nutrition solutions in the United States. Their software will put all of our nutrition needs in one convenient place. Everything from meal pplications, to online meal payments, and menus, will be located in the new portal, Linq Connect.
As a result, we will no longer be using MySchool Bucks to process Meal Payments. MySchoolBucks will remain in place for some other exciting changes coming to TUSD in the coming school year.
We are asking that you refrain from making lunch account deposits using MySchoolBucks, as well as from completing online meal applications until Linq Connect is set-up and ready to go. We are hoping to have it set-up and ready for use by July 15, 2024. If you have remaining lunch account balances in myschoolbucks, there is not need to worry, all of the current balances that are held in MySchoolBucks will be transferred to the new system as soon as it ready. Please stay tuned to the nutrition page of our website: Food Services - Tombstone Unified School District #1 (tombstoneschools.org) for more information as it becomes available. We will be posting regular updates in regards to these exciting changes.
We do thank you for your patience during this time of transition and exciting changes coming to TUSD. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me.
Jeremy Summers
Foodservice Director, TUSD
520-412-1282
The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act requires the information requested in order to verify your children’s eligibility for free or reduced-price meals. If you do not provide the information or provide incomplete information, your children may no longer receive free or reduced-price meals.
In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.
Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.
To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD-3027, found online athttp://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: (1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; (2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or (3) email:program.intake@usda.gov.
Meal Prices
Breakfast
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Milk - 40¢
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K–8 - Free
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HS Paid - $2.50
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HS Reduced- Free
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Adult - $3.00
Lunch
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Milk - 40¢
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K–8 - Free
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HS Paid-$4.00
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HS Reduced- Free
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Adult - $5.00
Reminder: All k–8 students in our district eat free. Please see our letter explaining the community eligibility provision.
Prepay Services
We will no longer be using MySchoolBucks to process online meal payments, but we are excited to that our online portal with Linq Connect is set-up and ready to go. Please click on the link below to set-up your linq connect account, where you will be able to make online payments, fill out meal applications, check student balances and see what your student is purchasing on a daily basis.
****Linq Connect
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Jeremy Summers at 520-412-1282
Join Us for a Healthy Lunch
Students may bring their lunch or eat a hot lunch in the cafeteria. We also welcome visitors to join us during our lunch hour. Parents may place an order for a hot lunch by calling the cafeteria office at each school early in the morning of the planned visit. Please drop off lunches or lunch money in your child's school office.
All school lunches include a half pint of 1% white, 1% chocolate, or fat free milk. If your child is allergic to milk products, we’re happy to substitute an alternative milk product in its place. Please contact the school office if this exception pertains to your child.
If your child forgets his or her lunch or lunch money, Tombstone Unified School District will provide a sandwich and milk. We will extend this courtesy up to three times during the school year.