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CRB Cunninghams introduces self-serve kiosks for faster school meal ordering

11 Nov 2024
CRB Cunninghams, cashless catering, online payment, and ID management providers to over 3,300 UK schools, has introduced new self-serve kiosks for school meal ordering and checkout.

Specifically designed for secondary school, sixth form and college canteens, the kiosks offer a faster way for students to order and check out food using an interactive self-service screen. With the increasing popularity of self-service technology, over 350,000 self-ordering kiosks are in use worldwide.

The interactive kiosks can be used to buy food, which is then prepared and collected from a designated point, or to pay for grab-and-go items like a supermarket self-checkout. The kiosks have been designed to improve the school dining environment by reducing queues, wait times and footfall.

Students access kiosks with their ID card or fingerprint, then scan items on the barcode reader or select from the touch-screen menu. When they tap to checkout, the total is deducted from their cashless account, and their order is recorded in CRB Cunninghams’ Fusion cashless catering system.

Carl Lewis, product owner at CRB Cunninghams, said: “We developed the self-serve kiosk to help schools and colleges give their school users an easy way to purchase their meals quickly.

“The kiosks are built into the Fusion Cashless system, so they work seamlessly alongside our traditional tills, offering a completely integrated cashless solution. It is exciting to see the transformation of school meal services as more sites embrace the benefits of this innovative modern technology.”