# Page 2 | KidKare Food Program Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is KidKare Food Program the right Daycare solution for you? Explore 389 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/166858/Kid-Kare/reviews --- KidKare Food Program 4.7 (389) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/166858/Kid-Kare/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of KidKare Food Program ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 389 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use ES Emma S. Owner Child Day Care Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Frustrated" December 1, 2025 3.0 Unsatisfied, get a landline telephone. Improve your customer service. I feel taken advantage of, due to lack of trust and frustration of not being able to login for example due to more errors in the system daily. Its all getting very frustrating. Pros Its reports are by far the best for cacfp center programs. I get audited every 3 years and I do fantastic because of their reports features. So simple and smooth every single time. Cons I hate absolutely hate the customer service. All they have is a chat feature. If you call you have to google search deep to find a phone number, which takes you straight to a voicemail. Never ever get a call back ever. And it takes weeks for them to fix errors that occur. So frustrating. Currently waiting on error that is going on 3 weeks. Alternatives considered [brightwheel](https://www.capterra.com/p/144060/brightwheel/) Reason for choosing KidKare Food Program Ease of reports. Menus are fantastic features with all the added usda guidelines as well. Review Source JL Jamie L. Owner Child Day Care Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Highly Recommend KidKare Food Program!" August 28, 2025 5.0 I absolutely love using the KidKare Food Program to log all of my students meals and snacks. It keeps track of everything for me! Pros What I like most about KidKare Food Program is the ease of use! You can log daily menus are upload a whole month at a time! Cons I have nothing to complain about KidKare Food Program! It is so simple to use and free for me on the CACFP. Review Source SF Saleena F. Director Child Day Care Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "OSLA KidKare" March 10, 2025 5.0 The organizations overall experience with Kidkare has been good. Pros ITs ease of use of the application is what keeps us attracted to it. Cons The Kidkare Food Program is often times not updateable and it is not usable with the apple platform. Review Source KS Kayla S. Director Child Day Care Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great Program for helping CACFP Run Smoothly and Makes reporting a Breeze " February 19, 2025 5.0 Pros I like how easy KidKare Food Program makes it to track the food that the children are being served, it is also very easy for new staff to learn and become familiar with Cons I have had many parents comment and say the app is nice however the steps to set it up and the amount of time it can take with all the information needed and questions it asks can be frustrating Review Source FM Farhan M. Education E-Learning Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "kidscare charity" June 3, 2024 5.0 good experience for KidKare Food Program Pros good way to take care of the kids and help us donate them Cons least about KidKare Food Program is meal planing Review Source AK Andrea K. Owner Operator Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Past year has been terrible!!!" January 3, 2024 2.0 Used to be happy. Have been in daycare for over 25 years and this past 2 years has been painful Working with company. Looking into other options Pros I used to like how I could get all info input very fast. Cons Program runs slow and customer support is not available by phone for quick questions. Switched from [KidKare Accounting](https://www.capterra.com/p/10006285/KidKare-Accounting/) Had to transfer because of buyout of the software company Review Source Response from Minute Menu Systems January 5, 2024 Hi Andrea, Thank you for sharing your feedback about your experience with KidKare. We genuinely apologize for the inconvenience and frustration you've faced recently and want to address this with you as this experience is not how we intend to support our customers. We'd love to discuss your specific concerns further and explore ways to address them directly. Please reach out to us at wecare@kidkare.com. The KidKare Team BL Briana L. Daycare provider Individual & Family Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Kidkare is great! " June 9, 2022 5.0 I truly enjoy using kidkare. It’s very user friendly and helps me keep track of what the kids ate, who’s all here, and the monthly calendar is a great tool too. I was a little intimidated by it at first but one I learned the ropes it was easy! Pros It’s super user friendly. I like the side bar hat jays out all your options so your able to quickly get to where you are going! It makes checkin in kids and logging food each day a breeze. Cons Sometimes I feel like it’s really slow or take forever to load . This can be frustrating when your trying to add information quickly, Review Source TE Tamara E. Owner Individual & Family Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "KidKare " November 19, 2019 5.0 Very good product and company. I’m not sure the recent pay increase was warranted though. Nothing new so not sure why the price went up. Our county agency mentioned this at a meeting. Pros I love the ease of use after you use it for a bit. You do have remember the exact name of the forms you need to print etc... overall very basic and easy to learn. Lots of video to explain as well. Customer service has grown greatly. I think their customer grew so rapidly they got overwhelmed in the beginning. Doing great now. Cons I wish their was a better defined drop drown list for files you need to copy each month for your own records. I’m still clicking around finding the forms. It’s prob just me but it can take a minute. Review Source KS Karly S. Director E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Meal Tracking" February 27, 2024 5.0 Pros Kidkare is very easy to use to track meals and attendance for CACFP. It's also easy to put the menu's in because it will come up read if you are missing a component for any meal. Cons Sometimes parents have trouble filling out eforms so you may have to help them on a computer or tablet at the school. Review Source IA Isah A. Security guard Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Love having an option for me to record my childcare suppers on the web " November 30, 2020 5.0 By and large: I love my experience the extent that my youngster care business goes. I have not utilized the bookkeeping programming yet I am thinking about pursuing that. As I expressed, the client support side is the main destruction up until this point. I haven't needed to utilize the client support for some time so I expectation it has improved. Pros I love the simplicity and accessibility on various gadgets to record my dinners and participation. Cons Customer administration is exceptionally moderate when you do require help...it takes days and once in a while weeks to find no solution most occasions. Extremely baffling no doubt. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Billing Manager Individual & Family Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Happy provider " December 10, 2018 5.0 Pros Ease of use and you can easily correct mistakes Cons The food can be more described can be better so you can easily describe meals your having Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Freelance Writer/Blogger Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "KidKare is AMAZING!!!" April 15, 2019 5.0 Pros KidKare is a wonderful tool for educational management. Would HIGHLY recommend. Cons I honestly cannot think of a con at this time. Review Source RD Rayna D. Owner/provider Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I have been using KidKare as MMK then KK. It helps up keep track of everything pretty well. " July 20, 2018 4.0 Pros Web based! Love that I can access it from my phone or tablet. I like that my teachers can login and complete attendance. Cons I hate the look of the invoices. The web address at the bottom confuses my clients, they try to login to it. I also don't like the look of the new invoices, they are small and crammed up into the top 2/3 of the page. I miss having a report to print for birthdays, emergency contacts, etc. I would also like to see a printable weekly attendance schedule. We fill in the hours the child is in care in their general info, the software should be able to print out a daily or weekly roster with those hours filled in. It helps to plan coverage since we are a ratio driven program. Review Source Larissa S. Teacher Individual & Family Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Very useful tool" January 2, 2019 5.0 Love it! Owning a Family Child Care, it is a really helpful tool! It keeps hours, dates, not only meals but important information for a licensed daycare. ;) Pros It keeps a record of very important information and in case a licenser comes in, it can help. Cons It might not be very clear about some things. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Owner Consumer Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great way to save paper! " December 10, 2018 5.0 Not having a ton of paper claims to keep and store has been extremely helpful. I log in everyday to enter my meals and it's a lot faster as I can type faster then I can write! Pros I like that it's so easy to use and go back to check your work. I'd been doing paper claims for 18 yrs and finally went to KidKare last year and wondered why I waited so long Cons I haven't come across anything yet that has frustrated me about this software. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Supervisor Hospitality Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "My children " March 22, 2019 5.0 Pros I love that they put what my children have eaten and how there day was. I love I can pay them directly through kidkare. It is wonderful Cons The only thing was that was kinda confusing the first time I got on the site Review Source MO Mei O. Program manager Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Making my work so easy" April 25, 2019 5.0 The staff always answer my questions and help me resolve whatever issues I have. As busy as they are, they take the ccx time to return my calls and emails in a timely manner. I truly appreciate what the staff have done for me and my organization MAKING MY WORK SO EASY. Pros Software is easy to use. The best part is the supportive and friendly staff. They are so helpful. Cons None. I like this software alot. If there are issues, the wonderful staff helps me resolve them. Review Source SB Sheila B. Owner Consumer Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "KidKare " January 3, 2019 4.0 It is very easy to keep track of all meals served. It is helpful in keeping a count of days that kids come and the meals they are served. The reports allow you to see a child's attendance at a single glance. Pros It is not a cluttered program. Not too many items on each window. Easy to see what you are looking for. Very easy to put in meals and attendance. Cons You have to use military time for PM or put pm after each entry. Ok as I know military time. Not so good for others. Also in the infant menu you have to click twice to put in food name or number. In the non infant portion, the pointer goes straight to the line to put in food name/number. It is not possible to go straight back and forth between meals served and child's in/out time. This would be nice to check to see if you put a child in or forgot. Not too big a deal but you do have to go out to a different window and then back again to the previous page you were using Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Teacher Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "KidKare.com" January 12, 2019 5.0 Pros I'm completely computer illiterate!! I have no problem entering all of my information daily. It's super easy to follow and there's always help a phone call away. Cons I think the thing I like least is that you can't enter information the next day without assistance. Some days are so difficult to do everything required for life and the time is up to enter your meals. Very stressful. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Owner/Director Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great App" January 2, 2019 5.0 Pros i love how easy this app is to use, very user friendly Cons there is nothing i would change about this software Review Source sA sharon A. owner Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "great program" December 10, 2018 5.0 saves time, I can go back and review. Receive updates current. Great Great. If their is something I don't understand, our rep is great. Pros the best and easy program for daily use. I am not the smartest computer person, I have no problems using the site. And it is free. Daily meals are entered and my end of the month is submitted with a blink. I don't have the best hand writing, I know the people on the end that would have to read my hand print is happy also. Thank you so much. Cons sometimes the site is slow. Nothing I can say Least about the software. Review Source BB Beth B. Owner Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Terrible system since switching from Minute Menu--They can't seem to get things to work properly." December 1, 2017 1.0 only headaches thus far. Pros I like that this is a web-based program so it is accessible from any device & because of this, I especially like that my parents can check their child in very easily on a designated tablet. Cons This is the same company that owned Minute Menu. They tested this program for many months before completely discontinuing Minute Menu. Because of that, one would assume the program actually worked. Where do I start on the "Cons"? ... For starters, the program randomly doesn't save data that was previously saved, such as the meals & times entered for the children in care (a requirement necessary to submit to the USDA Food Program), the forms & reports this program offers are a slim selection from what the MM program offered which most often results in significantly more time added to my work load. Don't expect an actual receipt to give to parents after posting payments to accounts. All you will get is a statement of account, not an itemized receipt which is common practice when receiving payments in a business. Plan to add time in having to hand write on every statement what payment was made, the form of payment, etc. Beware of this ridiculous program. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Owner Consumer Goods Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Kikdare review" January 8, 2019 5.0 I do like Kidkare. Pros I love that it stops providers if mistakes are made and need to be taken care of. Cons Click on EVERY single time in and time out... That I need to click if I need to enter multiple times. That infants are not on the same page. Review Source JD Joseph D. Owner Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Terrible in every single way. " January 22, 2018 1.0 Pros It's almost better than nothing. But not quite. Due to an unfortunate government contract, I am required to use this system. I was previously using pen and paper to report childcare attendance and meals. This is astoundingly worse than that. Cons Terrible user interface. Updates are slow and sloppy, leaving numerous errors for the user to fix. Server gets bogged down. Too much personal information is required for children and their families. Menus and functions are confusing and poorly designed. There is nothing good or useful about this system at all in any way and the creator should feel bad about himself. He did a bad thing and he should feel bad. Review Source AW Arlen W. Yes Afterscholl Satff Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "KidKare has a great interface and worked great overall!" July 10, 2020 5.0 I would highly recommend KidKare to anyone needing to meal plan for students. Pros As a user, the interface is so simple and makes each section readily available for use. I really enjoy the colors in the software as well. Cons Reviewing information can be confusing at times due to the fact that some of that information isn't updated. Review Source Similar Products Featured