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At Off MyPlate Food Program Consultants, our mission is to empower child nutrition programs by taking tasks off their plate, enabling them to achieve excellence.

10/09/2026

Hey y'all 👋 I'm Alana, your Lunch Lady CFO (Chief Food Officer).

If your kitchen is busier than ever but the bank account don't show it, you've got a money leak. Most kitchens have more than one.

I'm teaching a FREE class on the 5 places your plates leak money, and how to plug them 👇

🎓 Find the Money™
📅 Thursday, October 22
⏰ 2 PM Central / 3 PM Eastern on Zoom
🔁 Replay included

For caterers, meal prep, food trucks, restaurants, contract kitchens, school nutrition programs and childcare centers.

👉 Link in bio to save your seat
💬 Or DM me "MENU" for your free Meal Money Leak Score™

More plates don't mean more money. Let's go find yours.

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Hey y'all 👋 I'm Alana, the Lunch Lady CFO. That's Chief Food Officer.Quick question for my food business and food progra...
10/09/2026

Hey y'all 👋 I'm Alana, the Lunch Lady CFO. That's Chief Food Officer.

Quick question for my food business and food program folks:
Was this your busiest month ever… but the bank account don't show it? 🍽️

That ain't bad luck. That's a money leak. And most kitchens have more than one.

Money leaks hide in 5 places:
🧡 Your menu
💚 Your pricing
💙 Your production
💗 Your capacity
💜 Your revenue model

I'm teaching a FREE class on how to find them and plug them:

Find the Money™: Where Is the Money Leaking in Your Food Business?
📅 Thursday, October 22
⏰ 2:00 PM Central / 3:00 PM Eastern
💻 On Zoom, 60 minutes. Can't make it live? Sign up and I'll send the replay.

Save your seat 👉 https://findthemoney.offmyplateconsulting.com/

This one's for you if you feed people for a living:
🍴 Caterers and meal prep
🚚 Food trucks and restaurants
🏭 Contract kitchens
🏫 School nutrition programs
🧸 Childcare centers

Different plates. Same math. Let's go find your money.

Alana C. Jones, MS, RD, SNS, CCNP
Off My Plate Food Program Consultants®

What if more volume isn’t automatically more profit?Find the Money™ is a live workshop for caterers, meal-prep businesse...
10/06/2026

What if more volume isn’t automatically more profit?

Find the Money™ is a live workshop for caterers, meal-prep businesses, senior and contract meal providers, and food business owners who want a clearer view of where money is moving through their operation.

Join us Thursday, October 22, at 2:00 PM Central.

You’ll learn:
How to find your true cost per plate
Menu costing that reflects the real work behind each meal
Pricing for contract meals
The numbers that help you understand whether more volume is actually helping your business

The goal isn’t a complicated spreadsheet. It’s a clearer way to connect purchasing, portions, pricing, and volume to weekly decisions.

This session is designed to help you see the leaks, ask better questions, and make informed choices about your next menu, contract, or order with clarity.

Register now. The registration link is in the first comment.

If you don't know what every plate costs, you don't know what your food business makes.Before saying yes to a new contra...
10/05/2026

If you don't know what every plate costs, you don't know what your food business makes.

Before saying yes to a new contract volume, calculate three numbers:

1) Cost per plate.
2) The contribution each plate leaves after packaging, labor, and delivery.
3) How many plates per day you must serve to cover fixed overhead.

A big contract can look exciting on paper. But volume alone doesn't tell you whether the work fits your operation or supports the business.

That is where a busy operation can lose clarity.

The goal is not to reject growth; it is to understand what the growth requires before you accept it.

Know the math before you commit.

Find the Money™ is live Thursday, October 22, at 2:00 PM Central. We'll work through the numbers food business owners need to make clearer decisions around contracts, pricing, and capacity.

Registration link is in the first comment.

Food business owners, this one's for you 👋🏾I'm Alana. I turn meals into menus that make money.If you run a catering comp...
10/02/2026

Food business owners, this one's for you 👋🏾

I'm Alana. I turn meals into menus that make money.

If you run a catering company, a meal prep business, a food truck, a restaurant, or a childcare or school kitchen, you might be busier than ever but keeping less money. That ain't a you problem. It's usually a leak.

Most food businesses lose money in 5 places:
🍽️ The menu
💲 The pricing
🔪 Production
📦 Capacity
📈 The revenue model

I'm teaching a FREE live class to show you where yours is leaking:

Find the Money™
📅 Thursday, October 22
⏰ 2:00 PM Central / 3:00 PM Eastern
💻 On Zoom, 60 minutes

Save your seat here 👉🏾

https://findthemoney.offmyplateconsulting.com/

Can't make it live? Sign up anyway and I'll send you the replay.

More plates don't mean more money. Let's go find yours.

Alana C. Jones, MS, RD, SNS, CCNP
Off My Plate Food Program Consultants®

You can serve 500 meals a day and still lose money.If you serve more meals next month, will you automatically make more ...
10/02/2026

You can serve 500 meals a day and still lose money.

If you serve more meals next month, will you automatically make more money?

Not necessarily.

Revenue is not the same as profit. More volume only helps when each meal leaves enough behind after food, packaging, labor, delivery, and overhead are covered.

The 80/20 lesson: a small number of decisions (your pricing, highest-cost ingredients, labor time, and delivery setup) can drive most of what you keep or lose.

Before you accept more volume, ask: what is each meal actually contributing?

Join the Find the Money™ workshop on Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 2:00 PM Central. We’ll look at the numbers behind stronger meal operations for caterers, cacfp, school nutrition, meal-prep businesses, and senior or contract meal providers.

That calculation can show whether growth is strengthening your operation or adding pressure without enough return.

Registration link is in the first comment.

Can a team look confident while following a process that no longer fits the program?One thing I’ve noticed in the field ...
09/17/2026

Can a team look confident while following a process that no longer fits the program?

One thing I’ve noticed in the field is that experienced staff can make an outdated process look healthy.

They know what to do. The day keeps moving. Questions get answered quickly, and the same steps are repeated because they’ve worked before.

That consistency can hide a gap: no one is stopping to ask whether the process has been updated as responsibilities, staffing, or program needs have changed.

This isn’t a sign that staff are careless. They’re often doing exactly what they were taught: and doing it well.

The operational leak is the assumption that familiarity means the process is still working.

Strong programs make room to revisit the way work gets done, even when everything appears fine. Knowing the steps matters. Knowing when those steps need to change matters, too.

( Alana)

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