According to relevant statistics, there are more than 9,000 canteens in colleges and universities in China. 30 million teachers and students need to dine in the canteen every day. There are also 45 million teachers and students in junior and senior high schools. It means that 70-80 million people need to dine in the school canteen every day. Due to today's Internet of Things and big data development, building a smart campus has become a general trend, and the smart canteen has also become an important part. This is because consumption frequency in canteens is high, which involves the safety and health of teachers and students, and the safety management of schools.
According to market research, most canteens in China still adhere to using student cards because of the unified management and clearing, but student cards often face a series of problems such as inconvenience in recharging, loss of cards, and reporting the loss of the cards. Therefore, changes are needed to solve the problems. With the development of mobile payment technology, all-in-one POS machines based on online virtual cards have been invented. According to Hangzhou Golong related technicians, Golong canteen POS machines can support WeChat, Alipay, UnionPay, and other cards. At the same time, time, all kinds of data can be transmitted to the cloud.
The canteen services and efficiency can be improved.
Changes are needed to transform inefficient operating models of mobile payments. The campus payment upgrade has promoted the upgrading of the meals on campus. The business form, settlement method, and management mode of the entire university canteen have also undergone major changes. The management model has also changed dramatically with technological changes from the earliest manual bookkeeping to the popularization of computers and the use of informatization. Mobile payments, ERP, and big data brought a lot of changes.
It is necessary to weigh the pros and cons, break through the constraints, and dare to meet the challenges and opportunities. Schools are most concerned about the satisfaction of teachers and students, food nutrition, safety, and waste. While teachers and students are concerned about the food and efficiency. Contractors are concerned about income, costs, and profits. Obviously, traditional deductions and student cards can't solve their problems. This needs to consider the interests of all parties to achieve technological upgrading, transforming the traditional canteen payment, realizing the link with users, dishes, and raw material supply, connecting with consumers, and forming a complete set of smart canteen solutions.
Technology should serve people to improve the efficiency of the canteen. The upgrading of new technologies on campus for mobile payment and face payment is changing the dining process for consumers. Big data has improved the purchasing experience. The application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and VR/AR will bring more changes to group catering. Compared with the shortcomings of student cards, mobile payment brings considerable convenience to consumers. For canteen managers, sales efficiency has been significantly improved, and mobile reconciliation, business analysis, and menu management are well documented.
The payment provided by Golong Technology’s smart canteen system solution consists of EPR management, smart hardware, mobile payment, and service system, covering the canteen payment and backend management. In the future, it will expand to canteen purchase and sales inventory management, kitchen production automation, headend self-catering, takeaway, preorder, etc., making group catering business easier.