State-of-the-art Technology Helps
Feed More Students
Star Food’s USDA compliant reimbursable cashless vending machine can
feed more students and at the same time increase revenue.
FORT
LAUDERDALE, Fla., (April 09, 2007) –
The
USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service recognizes that vending machines
may play an expanding role in the operation of the National School
Lunch and School Breakfast Program. Personnel policies, labor
costs, pressure on lunch room space, class schedules and limited
time all contribute to the need to explore more efficient and
effective methods of delivering important nutritional benefits to
students and maintaining schools’ revenue streams.
To address the
issue, Star Food has developed a USDA compliant reimbursable meal
solution with a POS interface to match most POS existing systems.
Food service professionals can improve and expand their meal plans
in addition to feeding a larger segment of the student population by
integrating the Star Food reimbursable meal vending machine in
strategic areas on campus. It’s LAN or wireless capabilities further
allows placement in additional campus locations where students
congregate.
“On
a national average only about 38% of the population of a high school
can be served within the short time allotted for lunch, so schools
are missing many of their students,” explains Joe Gilbert, Vice
President/General Manager of Star Food. “Students can typically
wait in line for up to 20 minutes to be served lunch, leaving them
with a very short amount of time to eat,” according to Gilbert.
Star Food reimbursable meal machine is a solution to the problem.”
The Star Food
program not only allows student’s healthier time-efficient choices
for lunch, but breakfast and after school snacks too. This also
provides schools an innovative reimbursable meal revenue generating
solution.
For more
information about how Star Food can assist with school requirements
to feed more students, contact Star Food at 877-857-FOOD or visit
the Web site at
www.reimbursablemeals.com.
