Meet KIPP Texas
KIPP Texas is a network of public charter schools serving students across Texas. With 50 schools, 32,000 students, and nearly 4,000 staff members statewide, KIPP Texas operates at significant scale across multiple campuses, teams, and statewide operations.
Operating at this scale requires systems that help local teams move quickly while giving administrators better visibility into spending and operations across campuses.
The Challenge
Teams across KIPP Texas often need food delivery to support staff, school operations, and campus events. Before DoorDash for Business, those purchases were not centralized, making it harder to monitor spending consistently across schools and teams.
KIPP Texas needed a solution that made it easier to:
Centralize food ordering across schools and teams: Orders were often placed on individual credit cards, limiting organization-wide visibility.
Improve month-to-month oversight: Administrators needed a clearer way to review purchases and understand spending trends over time.
Support school-level flexibility while maintaining control: Different schools and regions needed to place orders as needed, while still operating within assigned budgets and approved user access.
“Before DoorDash for Business, meal deliveries were not centralized, which made month-to-month oversight more difficult. Now we’re able to review those transactions through reporting in the DoorDash portal, and that has given us better visibility into ordering across our schools and teams.”
The Solution
KIPP Texas uses DoorDash for Business to support day-to-day food ordering while giving administrators more visibility into spending across the organization. Today, teams use DoorDash for Business primarily for restaurant ordering, with convenience and grocery delivery supporting additional needs as they arise.
To support these needs, KIPP Texas uses multiple DoorDash for Business tools:
Meal Budgets: Teams can place orders within assigned school-level budgets, helping local users order what they need while maintaining spending controls.
Catering & Events: Schools and teams can coordinate larger meal orders for events and other planned needs through a centralized platform.
DashPass: Eligible users benefit from reduced delivery-related costs over time, contributing to an estimated $15K+ in annual savings.
Portal reporting: Administrators can review food-related purchases through the DoorDash portal and request additional reporting when needed, improving visibility across schools and regions.
Restaurant, convenience, and grocery ordering: Teams can access multiple ordering
options in one place, making it easier to support a variety of day-to-day needs.
With DoorDash for Business supporting delivery sites across Texas, KIPP Texas has a more scalable way to manage food ordering while improving oversight across a large and distributed organization.
"Dealing with over 50 schools during any given school day can be a tough ask for a single administrator, especially during peak times when food delivery needs are heavy, like special events and holidays. The DoorDash admin portal takes the complication out of managing user groups and expensed meals. The tool options are all neatly organized on the left-hand side to where I can quickly find and make updates in a matter of seconds. Best of all, any updates I make happen in real time, so I can confirm with staff instantly once their issue is resolved."
