Testimonials

“Our district loves Step Up To The Plate. It is a great system! We use our reward points to provide gifts to our employees as incentives and we also use our points toward our employee education fund. It truly helps our bottom line!
Laina Fullum RD, LD
Director of Nutrition Services, Columbia Public Schools,
Columbia, MO

“I have had the opportunity to work with Step Up To The Plate for 2+ years. The program presents a user friendly approach to nutrition and physical fitness information. Step Up To The Plate features vendors that are “in the know for healthy school meals.” These vendors with coordinated efforts from Step Up To The Plate offer opportunities for professional enrichment and school meal program enhancements.
Bravo to Step Up To The Plate—it is one of the best award programs available!
Linda Hoel, R.D.
Food Service Director, Northshore School District,
Bothell, WA

“Step Up To The Plate is an extraordinary rewards program...their professional development awards allows our staff the opportunity to attend our state conference and gather with other foodservice professionals to learn and network. I was very impressed with Step Up To The Plate. This program is a great asset to any school foodservice program!

Thank you Step Up To The Plate and we will see you at the conference!
Jos Carrion, MS, RD
Food Service Specialist, Flagler County School District
Bunnell, FL

What a great program!!! Not only do you receive great incentives for using
healthy products, the program is easy to use and it is FREE. The
information on the website reinforces the balanced lifestyle we all strive
for and promotes positive interaction between food service staff,
students, parents and district staff. They have great ideas and
activities that you can use to promote increased participation while at
the same time you engage the students in fun lifestyle activities. I am so
glad I stopped at the Step Up to the Plate booth in Chicago and hope to
see them again in Philadelphia. You are awesome!
Joanne Mazzone
Food Service Admin. Asst., Northmont City Schools
Clayton, OH

I just wanted to take a minute to say “thanks” for the service you provide. Your dedication to serving the participants in your program make it a pleasure to work with you. The rewards you offer are a huge benefit to our district! I fact, we have several annual events that are possible based solely on the rewards we receive from Step Up To The Plate! The “flex points” are fantastic because it allows us to give our students cool stuff that we would never be able to purchase on our own. And the “fixed points” component to your program has allowed us to provide educational tools for our staff that were previously unavailable! Keep up the great job!
Quentin Cavanagh
Marketing Director
Greenville County Schools, SC

Your Step Up To The Plate awards help increase excitement and participation numbers. Your valuable awards are almost impossible for us to do on our own with tightening budgets. We appreciate all the help you give to keep our students and staff excited about our breakfast/lunch program!
Linda Campbell
Foodservice Director
Perry County SD

I wanted to thank you for coming up with a great marketing program. You really have great promotional ideas and the option to use our points toward training has proven quite beneficial. Keep up the great work!
Martha Terry
Foodservice Director
Livonia Public Schools

Step Up To The Plate has helped our program tremendously. Your programming and awards have been a great motivational technique for everyone and are great for our monthly manager meetings.
Kern Halls
Training Manager
Orange County Public Schools

I would like to thank you for the opportunities provided to Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Department of Food and Nutrition through Step Up To The Plate awards and CEU’s for professional staff development.

Through your generous awards, we have been able to provide skills development opportunities to our staff including the ANC in Philadelphia. During these trying budget times, it is encouraging to have the support of your organization and your sponsors.

This is indeed a valuable program of support that you are providing to school districts and I hope it will be available for many more years.
Carol Chong
Buyer
Miami Dade County Schools, Miami, FL

I just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate the Step Up To The Plate program and your generous sponsors. Your points have provided money for state conventions, speakers for food service trainings and helped with increasing participation through your promotion ideas and student incentives. Thanks to Step Up To The Plate for all you do for our foodservice family!
Dolores McCoy
Nutrition Ecudation Specialist
Pinellas County Schools, Largo, FL