SchoolFood Feed Your Mind vs CakeChef
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SchoolFood Feed Your Mind
Access school menus, submit reviews to influence future offerings, and locate free summer meal sites. This app helps students stay informed about their food options and provides access to nutritious meals during the summer break.
- Submit menu reviews
- Find free summer meals
- View daily/weekly menus
- Location-based meal search
- Student ID required for reviews
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SchoolFood in your hands! With this latest update, SchoolFood has combined all of its previous mobile app features along with some new ones! In SchoolFood Feed Your Mind 3.0, you can: - Submit Review: SchoolFood's menus are completely student-driven. SchoolFood wants to hear what you think! Your feedback influences the menu and helps make it better. SchoolFood is YOUR food. A valid OSIS/Student ID number is required for participation. - Find Free Summer Meals being served at participating Schools, Pools, Parks, Libraries, SchoolFood Trucks, and NYCHA locations! Hungry? Type in an address or use your current location to find a Free Summer Meal near you! Everyone 18 years old and under is eligible for a Free Summer Meal - NO ID required. - View Menus. Curious about what's being served today, tomorrow, or next week? Check out the SchoolFood menus and find your favorite dishes and some new ones too! SchoolFood will continue to work and improve on making this app better for you! Feed Your Mind all summer with Free Summer Meals! Spread the word with #freesummermeals ! For more information, visit: www.schoolfoodnyc.org.
CakeChef
Easily reorder your favorite meals with just a few taps. This app simplifies the ordering process by allowing quick access to past orders and a convenient order history.
- Quick favorite order placement
- Simple reordering from history
- Effortless order tracking
- Convenient order history access
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With Easy Ordering, you can quickly place your favorite orders with just a few taps. Reordering is made simple, allowing you to conveniently reorder your favorites from your order history. Plus, you can effortlessly keep track of all your previous orders with the Order History feature.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CakeChef at 100% against SchoolFood Feed Your Mind's 15%. CakeChef also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.1). SchoolFood Feed Your Mind's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CakeChef holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 92 and 62 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of SchoolFood Feed Your Mind's written reviews are positive against 100% of CakeChef's.
SchoolFood Feed Your Mind ships an update every 2 weeks, CakeChef every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SchoolFood Feed Your Mind | CakeChef |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (92 ratings) | 4.8 (62 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 92 — better | 62 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | New York City Dept of Education | Craver Solutions Inc. |
Customer experience
SchoolFood Feed Your Mind
CakeChef
Bugs and requests
SchoolFood Feed Your Mind
Reported bugs
18 issues- App doesn't open
- Blank pages for menus
- Menus not accurate to what's served
- App is clunky and glitchy
- Cannot access menus
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- Low-quality/blurry menu images
- Text unreadable when zoomed
- Language options fail
- Student ID/birthday recognition issues
- Frequent 'No network connection' errors
- App stopped working completely
- Interface issues
- Printing difficulties
- Calendar display cut off
- Inability to add multiple children
- Missing barcode feature
- Inability to view future months' menus
- Spelling errors in app text (e.g., JanGuary)
Requested features
10 requests- Provide menu ingredients
- See next month's menu
- Use PDFs instead of photos for menus
- Add barcode function for scanning lunch
- Allow login for multiple children
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- Include cuisine categories (vegan, kosher, etc.)
- Higher resolution menus or PDF format
- Improve text readability
- Fix language options to work correctly
- Add more features and interactivity
CakeChef
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SchoolFood Feed Your Mind
No in-app purchases
CakeChef
No in-app purchases
Questions
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