The Classroom Board
Big name tiles, big meal icons, drag and drop for older students, tap and pick for the youngest. Touch or mouse.
Explore the boardDaily lunch counts for elementary schools
Every student picks. Every kitchen knows. Every morning.
MorningCount turns the screen already in your classroom into a lunch board. Students tap their name and their lunch. Your cafeteria sees the totals as they come in. No show of hands, no teacher tallies, no guessing.
Every school morning, the same scramble.
A teacher stops the morning to take the count: hands up for hot lunch, hands up for bagels, tally it on a sticky note. Someone walks it to the office, or calls it in. The office relays it to the kitchen. The kitchen started cooking twenty minutes ago, based on yesterday, or last week, or a best guess.
Too much means full trays in the trash. Too little means kids waiting on a second batch. Every building, every day, all year. And every version of it, the spreadsheet, the form, the clipboard, has the same person doing the counting: the teacher.
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Paper tallies
A sticky note in every room, recounted at the door.
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Phone relays
Classroom to office to kitchen, one call at a time.
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Cooking on a guess
Batch sizes from yesterday, last week, or a hunch.
Three taps, and the kitchen knows.
This is the part that's different: the students take the count themselves.
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Students pick.
Tap your name, tap a big picture of your lunch. Confetti. Your name slides into the right column, and the cafeteria's count ticks up at the same moment.
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Teachers submit.
When the class is done, one tap on Submit tells the kitchen this room is finished. Someone changed their mind? Tap the name again and pick something else. That's the teacher's whole part of the morning.
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The cafeteria watches.
Totals by grade and by meal, a grand total for the building, and a list of classrooms that haven't submitted yet. It updates itself every few seconds.
Works on the big touch panel. Works on a laptop, too.
Built for 75-inch classroom touchscreens and five-year-old fingers. Just as happy on a teacher’s laptop, a tablet, or a desktop with a mouse. No touchscreens in your building yet? Teachers still skip the sticky note.
Same board, same tap targets, every screen size.
Built for the classroom, the kitchen, and the district office.
The Cafeteria Live Report
Live counts by grade and meal, a missing-classrooms list, and an optional forecast for today, so prep starts with real numbers.
Explore the reportTrends & Forecast
Participation, meal mix, day-of-week patterns, and a daily forecast from your own history. Aggregate only. Never per student.
Explore trendsReplace the guess with this morning’s count. Then with a forecast.
Food waste in a school cafeteria starts with a guess about how many kids will eat. MorningCount replaces that guess with the actual count as it comes in, and with a forecast built from the last four same-weekdays at that school. Your Monday forecast comes from your Mondays. Your Friday forecast comes from your Fridays.
After about two weeks of history, the forecast appears automatically at the top of the cafeteria report, before the first classroom has even submitted.
Do kids bring lunch from home more often on Mondays? Now you'll know.
Student privacy, built in.
No student accounts or logins. No payment, eligibility, or health data, ever. Analytics are aggregate totals, never per-student history. No third-party scripts, trackers, or ads on any page.
- We store: first name
- last initial
- classroom
- meal pick
- That's the list.
Nothing to install.
MorningCount is a web page. It runs on the screens you already own, in the browser that’s already on them. No software on your servers, no app store, no agents on the devices. Allow one domain and you’re done.
- No installs
- No agents
- No student logins
- One domain to allow
Five minutes a week. That’s the whole job.
After setup, MorningCount asks one thing of your office: upload the roster export your SIS already produces. It works with files from PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, or any system that can export a spreadsheet, and every import previews before anything changes. The rest runs itself, from the nightly reset to the new-day rollover.
- PowerSchool
- Infinite Campus
- Skyward
- eSchoolData
- SchoolTool
- any SIS with a CSV export
MorningCount reads the roster export each of these produces. Automatic roster sync is on the roadmap.
Featured case study
Four elementary schools moved the lunch count from paper tallies to the classroom screen. Two thousand students pick for themselves, the kitchen watches live, and nothing waits on the Wi-Fi.
Try it right now. No signup.
Open the live demo and pick lunch as a student. Then open the cafeteria report and watch your pick land. Two minutes, no sales call.