How Summary Counts Work

At the top of the Meals Served page, four summary numbers give you a quick overview of the day’s meal logging status.

Children

The total number of children scheduled for the selected date. This count comes from the Daily Schedule — if a child was added or removed from the schedule, this number updates automatically.

Meals Logged

The number of children who have at least one meal claimed for the day. A child counts toward this total as soon as any meal — Breakfast, Lunch, or any other — has been marked as either Taxes or Food Program.

A child with no meals claimed does not count toward this total, even if they are scheduled for the day.

Taxes

The total number of individual meal claims marked as Taxes across all children for the selected date. This counts each meal separately — so a child with Breakfast and Lunch both claimed for taxes counts as 2.

Food Program

The total number of individual meal claims marked as Food Program across all children for the selected date. Same counting method as Taxes.

Why do the counts matter?

These numbers help you quickly verify at the end of the day that your logging is complete. If Children shows 8 but Meals Logged shows 3, you likely have several children still needing meals recorded before you close out the day.