check with your local McDonalds. Some of them offer fundraiser nights for schools. They give a portion of all the sales between the hours of 4-8:00 on a night during the week. I know our local McDonalds does this and our school does it a few times a year.
as far as selling stuff. I prefer to buy Home Interiors candles. They have a fundraiser flyer for candles and candle accessories. They burn better than most candles and burn a long time. They are usually cheaper than most fundraisers. Most people don't mind buying one or 2 of the candles. You can probably find a consultant on the home interiors website. I don't know why more schools don't sell these. We did them in one school out of all the different schools my kids went to and they did very well. They are easy to sell because there isn't a whole book for people to search through to find something they want. A lot of people would buy 2-4 of the smaller candle in a jar sizes.
Most of these other fundraisers my kids bring home, we don't even try to sell. They are expensive and have a bunch of junk most people won't use. Wrapping paper is only 1.00 a roll at a lot of stores so why would anyone pay that high price for it in those books. The cards aren't that great of quality or have cheesy sayings in them so people don't buy those well either. I didn't like the cookie dough because of the freezer problem and when I went to the school to pick up the order I wasn't happy because they were half thawed already and delivered them right away to the customers because I will not refreeze frozen food once it starts to thaw out so didn't feel they were getting the quality they thought they were getting. I wonder how many parents actually re-froze them before they were delivered so I will not order any foods that have to be refrigerated or frozen in a fundraiser ever again after that experience. I also didn't like the cheese we bought one time. I think it was rotten when we got it because it tasted strange and ended up throwing it away and that was expensive trash. You don't know how people will handle food once it leaves the fundraiser so I would stay away from anything that has to be refrigerated or frozen. Same way with pre-made pizzas.
There are several restaurants that give 15-20 percent of their profits for a fundraiser. I think these are the best fundraisers and are usually the ones that we actually do. Papa Johns Pizza, Pizza Hut, Cici's, A&W, McDonald's, Applebees does a 5.00 pancake breakfast fundraiser, and there are probably some others that do fundraiser opportunities as well. They are so much easier because you don't have a lot of stuff to sort through and give merchandise out to the kids when the orders come in. All you have to do is pass out flyers and the parents bring the flyers to the restaurant or fill out the coupon for some of them and the restaurant does the rest.