Parental Power!
How cashless payment solutions can ensure pupils eat a proper lunch,
on school premises

Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, 3 March 2008 – With healthy eating the current ‘hot topic’ of the moment there are increasing pressures on parents and schools to enforce a healthier culture amongst the younger generations. Even where healthy meals are brought in pupils vote with their feet and lunch ends up a bag of crisps and can of coke from the corner shop.

There is a quick and easy way for schools to ensure dinner money provided by parents is spent wisely. Many schools and academies are adopting cashless payment systems, where by each student has an individual electronic payment card that they use to purchase their school meals. Parents load the card with funds, eliminating the need for pupils to carry cash. The card can only be used to purchase meals on school premises, “this ensures lunch money is actually used to buy lunch, and keeps the pupils on site during lunch breaks”, says Gary Heath of G2IS. “The system allows parents to limit daily spend allowance and provide allergy alerts, giving them greater control over their child’s diet”.

G2IS have invested significantly within their back end management system creating a more user friendly cashless payment solution. Purchasing patterns and stock control management systems add to an efficient catering operation. Creating a system that is simple, clean and efficient to use for both schools and pupils. With the requirement to provide a healthy diet being met the issue will soon turn to how schools enforce this. Maybe cashless payment systems are the answer?

About G2IS

G2IS is the UK market leader in providing cashless payment and payment processing solutions in a number of significant and demanding environments including: financial services, retail, higher education, further education, industrial, leisure, and professional services. Customers both large and small make up an estimated cardholder population exceeding 2 million. G2IS systems are supported by a rapidly growing national field engineering division, providing services to 650 customers, on over 1750 sites. G2IS is part of G4Tec, one of the foremost innovators and suppliers within the security industry that has over 30 years of experience designing, developing and manufacturing powerful, state-of-the-art electronic security solutions, bringing together the expertise and knowledge required to meet the needs of some of the worlds most secure environments.