School nutrition directors
Heat-and-serve IW sandwiches with Commodity chip + K-12 Approved — breakfast and lunch platforms on ciabatta, biscuit, pancake, English muffin, croissant.
School sandwich program · Melt Mates™ · USDA Commodity
Melt Mates™ finished sandwiches marked USDA Commodity Item on rightstartfoods.com — sell-as-is RSF to school/commodity programs (commodity cheese path). Not private-label co-pack.
Channel clarity
This page lists only Melt Mates SKUs with USDA Commodity Item = Yes on the live brand/product sheets. Site notes commodity cheese utilization via USDA Commodity Code 100242 — Cheese, Natural American, Barrel, Chilled (for processing). We do not invent CN labels beyond what product sheets publish.
Heat-and-serve IW sandwiches with Commodity chip + K-12 Approved — breakfast and lunch platforms on ciabatta, biscuit, pancake, English muffin, croissant.
Ask Elena for commodity cheese processing / school entitlement framing supported by the site and your district path — start from the product sheets.
Private-label / co-pack under your brand lives at the co-pack lookbook. PUB6013 is K-12 on the brand list but not Commodity — excluded here.
Commodity Yes only
Scraped from brand/melt-mates; each listed only if USDA Commodity Item is Yes on the product sheet. PUB6013 excluded (K-12, not Commodity on brand list).













HOLD A5 (not Commodity): PUB6013 Whole Grain Biscuit Sandwich with Turkey Sausage (IW) — K-12 Yes, Commodity = No, Egg allergen pending supplier (compliance notes vs Contains/ingredients). No Commodity chip. Specs: product page →
HOLD A5 (Commodity Yes): PUB6015 — credits 2 oz grains + 1.25 oz M/MA CLEAR; do not lead with Contains until Egg reconcile. HOLD D4: PUB1050 — Power Up meal-kit identity / shared code; not a Melt Mates commodity hero. PUB6003 Na = 455 mg per hub panel (site scrape previously showed 535).
USDA Commodity Code (site): 100242 – Cheese, Natural American, Barrel, Chilled (for processing). Meal-pattern / PFS docs via Elena or each product page — Commodity Yes ≠ CN Label (do not invent CN #). Lane A sell-as-is ≠ Lane B co-pack. Site copy on some cheese SKUs may show CMS placeholders — defer to hub dossier / PFS.
Open Melt Mates brand on rightstartfoods.com Co-pack lookbook (separate)
Formats
Individually wrapped heat-and-serve sandwiches — consistent nutrition and flexible prep for K-12 service.
Ciabatta grilled cheese / sliders · biscuit · pancake · English muffin · croissant — plus PUB1050 meal kit format.
Brand page frames commodity cheese processing (code 100242). Confirm entitlement utilization with Elena and your district.
Buying Melt Mates™ commodity sandwiches for your school program is Buy Right Start sell-as-is. Packing finished sandwiches under your brand is Co-pack — use the co-pack lookbook.
How to order with Right Start
Best path per Ordering Info: email info@globalfoodsolutions.co. New customers: subject line New Customer Request Credit Application.
Often the easiest purchase path is your local broadline distributor. We also sell direct when you can receive frozen or dry pallets.
Use rightstartfoods.com/contact (Product Samples / Sales / Distributor Support) or the Talk products routing below. Full sheets live on each product page.
Order lead times and minimums are published in the Ordering Info PDF on the site —
Talk products
Primary for this channel: Elena Misoulis (school / commodity). Michael (brand) and Martin (distributor) secondary. Or email info@globalfoodsolutions.co / use the site contact form.
School nutrition, commodity cheese path, meal-pattern / PFS docs for these SKUs (not invented CN Labels).
National accounts and brand programs.
Distributor and broker coverage.
Routes to: Elena Misoulis