Food Service Solutions

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Food Service Solutions, Inc.
Company type Private
Industry Software
Founded1989;36 years ago (1989)
FounderMitch Johns, President, CEO
Headquarters,
Key people
David Pisanick, Vice-President, COO
ProductsFSS POSitive ID, BioWedge, SecureID
Website foodserve.com

Food Service Solutions, Inc is a software development company based out of Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States that successfully designed and implemented biometrics into a lunchline. [1]

Founded in 1989, FSS uses biometric scanning technology to provide services for educational and institutional foodservice providers. The company has established a position of market leadership [1] addressing two problems in school-based foodservice operations. The first is that school children eligible for free or reduce-fee lunches through government assistance programs often fail to participate because of the perceived social stigma associated with showing a special card or meal ticket in front of other students. The second is that in the foodservice POS industry, software has historically been proprietary, cumbersome for clients to self-administer, and difficult to integrate with other technologies.[ citation needed ]

FSS also has a webservice where parents can view what their child has been eating, what their lunch account balance is and also make payments with their credit card or checking/savings account. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "CBS News". Fingerprints Pay For School Lunch. January 24, 2001. Archived from the original on June 1, 2002. Retrieved November 18, 2007.
  2. "find Biometrics". Tough Love in the School Cafeteria Lunch Line. Archived from the original on December 14, 2007. Retrieved November 18, 2007.