Our Story

 The Past

Until January 2004, the hot lunch program at St. Mary School was run by the Parent Teacher Council and the Athletic Booster Club. Each week, on Thursdays, a “hot lunch” was ordered and brought in from various fast food restaurants in the area, or hot dogs were cooked in Burnett Hall and wheeled over to the school to be served to the children by parent volunteers. Although this wasn’t a bad start, everyone wanted something more. Unfortunately our school did not have the facilities to offer anything else. Thankfully, once Phase I of the beautiful new addition to our school was complete, with it’s awesome new kitchen, and spacious dining area in the new Franciscan Room, this dream was now a possibility.

 After many discussions between the Principal, Judy Rozgo, the Business Manager, Paul Bulow, the PTC President, Michele Kash, and school parents, Hayel and Jan Sweis (who were also previous restaurant owners), the new hot lunch program came to fruition.

 In January 2004, our new bigger, better, daily hot lunch program was launched using parent volunteers as food preparers and servers under the supervision of Hayel and Jan Sweis.

 The Present 

The Sweis family formed the Hot Meals, Inc. Company. They worked hard to make sure the students and staff of our school are provided with a well-balanced, nutritious, and high quality lunch five days a week. Through the St. Mary School PTC, parent and grandparent volunteers are organized and scheduled to prep, serve, and clean-up in two shifts on each hot lunch day. These volunteers are vital to the success of the hot lunch program at our school. Without them, there would not be a hot lunch program at St. Mary School. 

The Future

Hot Meals Inc. is always open to suggestions and ideas from the parents, children, and staff of our school in regards to the menu or any facet of the hot lunch program. They welcome parents to stop in and “check out” our hot lunch program anytime. They are all so proud of what we have worked together to accomplish.