Healthy Reimbursable Meal VendingTurn your school’s vending machines into cashierless point-of-service lines
Take advantage of Horizon’s vending technology to add POS lines without adding cashiers. Horizon’s Healthy Vending machines serve nutritious reimbursable meals or healthy a la carte items anywhere on campus, and students can use eligibilities and account balances for purchases so they no longer have to carry cash.
Healthy Vending also offers a great way to support your district’s wellness goals. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act passed recently will require schools to remove unhealthy food and drinks from their schools. Now is a perfect time to implement a healthy vending program to be operated by your school nutrition department. You already have products that meet the requirements, and you are the nutritional specialists in your district—not third-party firms interested only in the bottom line. Put your experience and nutritional knowledge to work, ensuring that the drink and snack machines on your campuses comply with nutritional standards.
Increase participation and revenue
- Add POS lines without adding labor cost
- Increase revenue by serving nutritious federally-reimbursable meals and healthy snacks anywhere on campus
- Increase security and revenue by using student eligibilities and prepaid accounts for vending purchases
- Improve participation by placing healthy vending machines in strategic places—in high-traffic areas and where students gather
- Reduce cashier labor and increase meals per labor hour
Accomplish wellness goals
- Replace junk-food vending choices with healthy choices
- View nutrition information with the touch of a key
- Provide parental monitoring of student vending purchases via MealpayPlus
- Eliminate portion control and temperature problems
- Reduce food handling and airborne disease risks
- Ensure HACCP compliance
Benefit from cutting edge technology
- Access real-time account balances and eligibility statuses
- Use OneSource POS drag-and-drop setup process
- Monitor the vending machines through a console for temperature, inventory, cash, connectivity, mechanical functions, and power
- Provide extensive security with video snapshot of the patron for every purchase
- Meet all USDA, HACCP, ADA and FDA regulations and guidelines
- Ensure successful vends with drop sensors
- Vend a complete meal with one drop or choose component-based vending
- Shut down machines automatically if all components are not available according to USDA regulations
- Set up the smart-enabled vending machines to follow your business rules, such as start and end times for meal sales
- Eliminate the need for staff members to sell a la carte items
- Ensure the correct student is being charged for the meal through the photo record that is kept with the journal report; the vending machines also require two forms of identification to purchase a reimbursable meal
- Enhance your district’s image with this cutting-edge solution that is a popular topic with news media
- Customize the Healthy Reimbursable Vending machines with your district or school logo and colors to draw attention to the machines
- Receive fast, reliable service through the extensive dealer/distributor network
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- Dispense healthy, reimbursable meals and snacks anywhere on campus
- Use student accounts and eligibilities for purchases
- Expand POS lines without hiring extra cashiers
- Speed up serving lines
- Reduce cash handling
- Offer 24/7 a la carte/beverage capability
“Healthy Vending has enabled us to feed more students in the same time frame and to do so without increasing staff.”
Kymm Mutch,
Administrator of School Nutrition Services
Milwaukee Public Schools
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