Class Schedule

Each class below is color-coded according to who might best benefit from the training offered. However, anyone can register for any one of the four classes offered in the 90-minute time frame.

Color Code Legend:

Central Office Staff Project Manager (see descriptions for specifics)
Food Service Director/Upper Mgmt IT Support
Kitchen Manager All Users
Dietician New Class for 2009

Hover over a class title to view its description.

  • Wednesday, Nov. 4
  • Thursday, Nov. 5
Time/Room Walton Salon 4 Gwinnett Hall
8:00am
-9:30am
FastLane Suite: Central Office
MealpayPlus
OneSource Front of House
VBOSS Inventory Suite
9:30am
-10:00am
Break Break Break Break
10:00am
-11:30am
Welcome to KidServe
Site FastLane
OneSource Inventory Suite
VBOSS Menu Planner Suite
11:30am
-1:00pm
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
1:00pm
-2:30pm
Increasing Participation
Site FastLane Installation
OneSource Menu Planner Suite
VBOSS Back Office Technical Support
2:30pm
-3:00pm
Break Break Break Break
3:00pm
-4:30pm
Healthy Vending
FastLane Suite End-of-Month Reporting
Application Scanning/Online Application
Food Costs and ROI
Time/Room Walton Salon 4 Gwinnett Hall
8:00am
-9:30am
My Training
FastLane Tech Support
OneSource Tech Support
Loss Prevention
9:30am
-10:00am
Break Break Break Break
10:00am
-11:30am
K-12 Audit Preparation
Front of House Conversion
Student Nutrition and Wellness
Student Data Imports
11:30am
-1:00pm
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

 

 

Food Costs and ROI

By popular demand—a special workshop geared for food service directors and central office management teams to discuss proven methods for lowering food costs and improving your ROI with Horizon’s products and services.

Student Nutrition and Wellness

The need for accurate, comprehensive nutrition and activity education for your students has never been more crucial.  For the Food Service Director or Central Office management team, this workshop offers discussion on products and software functionality that contribute to Horizon’s Healthy Child Campaign, designed to fight childhood obesity.

Front of House Conversion

For the project manager and IT support, this workshop discusses the necessary preparations for migrating your FastLane and VBOSS front of house data to Horizon's OneSource software.

K-12 Audit Preparation

For the food service director or central office management team, this class is an overview of how to prepare for and pass the CRE audit and SMI audit using Horizon’s software.

Loss Prevention

For the Food Service Director or central office management team, this class will cover the specific Horizon reports and software features which can be used to identify and prevent potential loss in your food service operation.

OneSource Technical Support

Separate sessions will cover support items for the FastLane™ and VBOSS™ products.

For the OneSource Project Manager and IT support, this class discusses the most common technical support scenarios involved with the powerful OneSource solution.  Horizon support reps will share their troubleshooting expertise to identify root causes and effective resolutions. 

FastLane Technical Support

Separate workshops will cover support items for the VBOSS™ Back Office and OneSource™ software.

For the front office Project Manager and IT support, this class discusses the most common technical support items involved with FastLane™ POS and the Free & Reduced and Accountability modules in VBOSS™. Horizon support reps will share their troubleshooting expertise to identify root causes and effective resolutions. 

 

My Training

This unique workshop moves away from specific Horizon products to discuss the current and future training needs for Project Managers, IT Support, Kitchen Managers, Cashiers and other food service workers. Horizon has introduced various training solutions over the years and is developing innovative new ones for a changing world.  Join our instructional designers for an engaging forum to address your training needs.

Student Data Imports

For the experienced Project Manager and IT support staff, an in-depth discussion on best practices for providing clean student data imports into Horizon’s software and various options for exporting Horizon data to other applications for custom reporting and analysis. 

Application Scanning/Online Application

For the central office staff, see for yourself why processing Free & Reduced applications has never been easier, faster or less expensive!

FastLane Suite End-of-Month Reporting

A separate workshop is offered for MealpayPlus™ functionality and reporting.

For the experienced FastLane™ user, this popular class covers several reports in Site FastLane™ and Central Office FastLane™ along with their counterparts in VBOSS™ Accountability.

Healthy Vending

This session is geared for the food service director or central office management team. See for yourself how a Horizon Smart Enabled vending machine can increase participation while potentially reducing your costs.

Connect all Smart Enabled vending machines to a central POS location: vend reimbursable meals and ala carte items

VBOSS Back Office Technical Support

For the back office Project Manager and IT support, this workshop discusses the most common technical support scenarios involved with the VBOSS™ back office modules: Inventory, Order Processing, Menu Planner & Production. Horizon support reps will share their troubleshooting expertise to identify root causes and effective resolutions. 

OneSource Menu Planner Suite

Intended as a follow up for the OneSource™ Inventory class, this workshop covers the powerful menu planning and nutritional analysis tools offered in Horizon OneSource™.

Site FastLane Installation

For the experienced FastLane™ user, this workshop will cover the necessary setups and configurations for installing Site FastLane™ at a new school or on a new or replacement POS line at an existing school.

Increasing Participation

For the food service director and centrual office management team, this workshop focuses on increasing student participation through the Horizon products and services--especially the ones you already have but may not be using to their fullest potential.

VBOSS Menu Planner Suite

For the back office project manager, district dietician or central office personnel, this class goes into detailed setup of your recipes, using your inventory items as ingredients. Horizon’s best practices are applied to combine recipes and individual stock items into menu plans that are then organized into cycles and scheduled for production.

OneSource Inventory Suite

For the back office project manager and kitchen managers, an in-depth workshop on the core Back Office operations offered in Horizon OneSource™.

Site FastLane

For anyone involved in supporting Site FastLane™ POS in your district, this workshop discusses the day-to-day cashier and manager functions related to the FastLane™ Point of Service software and peripherals.

Welcome to KidServe

KidServe is Horizon's latest offering, specifically designed with smaller school districts in mind.  Horizon's EZ Steps for front and back office procedures help you save time and money so your staff can focus on feeding kids.

Claims reporting, production records, physical inventories, grocery orders, Free & Reduced program applications... we know you don’t want to spend your day buried in paperwork. KidServe makes sure you don’t have to. On top of that, we help control your costs, increase participation and revenue, and improve student and parent satisfaction.

VBOSS Inventory Suite

For the back office project manager and central office personnel, this workshop will discuss functionality contained in the Inventory, Order Processing and USDA Commodity Management modules.

OneSource Front of House

For both central office staff and kitchen managers, this workshop will cover POS operations and configurations in Horizon OneSource™.

MealpayPlus

Everything a director or upper management team needs to know about Horizon’s powerful online prepayment solution.

FastLane Suite: Central Office

For your central office staff, this workshop covers the functionality and best practices for Central Office FastLane™, VBOSS™ Free & Reduced and Accountability.