Vegetable Tater Tots
These crispy Vegetable Tater Tots are a fun and tasty way to enjoy extra veggies.
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Chocolate Chickpea Brownies
These decadent, fudgy brownies packed with protein and fibre, with a healthy twist!
Book Week Tuckshop Ideas 2026
Every year the Children’s Book Council of Australia brings children and books together across Australia through Children’s Book Week. It’s a favourite with kids and is a great opportunity to get creative in the tuckshop!
The success of Corinda State High School’s Café
For over seven years, Corinda State High School Cafe has been well-loved by their students and staff members. With a warm atmosphere, the café welcomes students and staff from a school community of over 2,200, while providing a real-world training environment for students pursuing hospitality. A different offer from the tuckshop Corinda’s café offers a distinct and curated café menu. Rather than having the same menu as the canteen, the café offers exclusive items, such as coffee, smoothies and other
Tips to reduce canteen queue times
High schools can be big, busy places. High school students have insatiable appetites. Your responsibility as a school food service is to feed and reenergise students throughout the day so they can learn and exhibit positive behaviours. Long canteen queues can discourage students and staff from using the school food service. No one wants to spend 30 minutes of a 40-minute lunch break waiting in a noisy line, only to reach the front and find limited choices left. Long queue
School Cafes
More than coffee: Bringing the community together through a school cafe A school café is not just a place to purchase food and drinks. It can become a welcoming meeting spot; a learning environment for students and an additional income source for schools. Unlike school tuckshops, a café can encourage students and teachers to sit, chat and spend time together. It serves as a comfortable and familiar place where they can feel connected to the school community. Providing practical experience
Weekly Schedule
A well-planned week is the foundation of an efficient tuckshop. A weekly schedule helps you plan food preparation, ordering, deliveries, cleaning, administration and staffing across the week, ensuring jobs are completed at the right time and reducing last-minute pressure. Your weekly schedule should be tailored to your menu, staffing levels and service days. It can also help identify opportunities to prepare items in advance, spread the workload more evenly and improve overall efficiency. Include regular tasks such as placing supplier
Serving more than lunch: Carmel’s tuckshop journey
When Carmel Window began at the Gympie South State School tuckshop in October 2018, she stepped into the role with a clear vision: to serve the school community with healthy, nutritious food and create a welcoming space at the heart of the school. Over the years, Carmel found great joy in supporting students, families and staff through the tuckshop. One of the most rewarding parts of her work was watching students grow and change each year; from shy little prep
Toastie Tactics
Toasties are one of the most popular menu items in school food services across Queensland, and for good reason! From the customers’ point of view, they are comforting, can be adapted to preference and are often available at a lower price point than other hot mains. From a food service point of view, they are quick and simple to make, can be made ahead of time and often achieve a 100%+ mark-up. Throughout our travels to Queensland tuckshops, there is
Take-home meals from the Tuckshop
Tuckshops in Queensland can prepare meals for people to purchase and take home, but there are a few important things to consider. For most state school tuckshops operated by a P&C Association, the Queensland Food Act exemption means the tuckshop itself is generally not regulated like a standard commercial food business. Queensland schools already commonly prepare meals onsite such as lasagne, curries, pasta dishes and stir-fries. However, if the tuckshop starts preparing “take-home meals” for the wider community or operates