RFID smart canteen solution

As the key markets of my country's group meal market, schools, enterprises, institutions and Hospitals occupy an important position in my country's group meal market. According to a survey report from the China Cuisine Association, group meal consumers are paying more and more attention to the pursuit of healthy quality and nutritional value, which are significantly higher than price, quantity of dishes and other factors. Companies not only need to ensure food safety, but also need to match the ingredients with the meals. Provide more services in aspects such as calories and dining experience.

The current canteen model has the following shortcomings for consumers: 1. Long queue time, low meal delivery efficiency, and easy to cause congestion; 2. Manual cashier, slow and error-prone; 3. The dining process is not standardized. Causes chaos in canteen management; 4. Employees have poor dining experience, affecting the reputation of the canteen. For managers, there are several shortcomings: 1. Large labor demand and high labor costs, which lower the profits of the canteen; 2. Chaotic management, which affects the overall image of the canteen and the unit; 3. Messy management of the canteen, gray procurement, etc. There are many areas; 4. The financial data statistics are disordered, which directly affects the canteen's profits.

On this basis, smart canteens emerge at the right time. Smart Canteen is an "Internet + Canteen" big data management platform based on the Internet of Things and cloud computing, using AI artificial intelligence and mobile Internet technology to provide canteens with ordering, meal pickup, settlement, dining and canteen management. Through AI intelligent settlement equipment and intelligent management systems, we can comprehensively help canteens optimize management, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance their image.

Customers can settle their purchases by themselves through the RFID settlement desk.

Smart canteens combine software systems and intelligent hardware devices to provide canteens with ordering software systems, intelligent settlement equipment, payment systems, canteen purchase, sale and inventory management systems, and financial data statistical analysis.

RFID smart settlement desk. The RFID smart settlement station is an advanced settlement terminal equipment built using RFID technology. It is mainly used to realize Library-self-service-borrowing-and-returning-machine-source-manufacturer-UHF-touch-screen-borrowing-and-returning-machine.html target='_blank'>self-service settlement services in the canteen. Compared with traditional settlement methods, RFID smart settlement stations have higher efficiency and smarter features, which can greatly improve the dining experience in the canteen.

Below we will give a detailed introduction to the characteristics and advantages of RFID smart settlement stations.

First of all, the RFID smart settlement station uses RFID chips as the core identification component. When diners place their trays on the checkout counter, the RFID chip reader can quickly identify their information and automatically bind the consumption amount, avoiding the queuing and tedious manual calculations in traditional settlement methods, and improving settlement efficiency. .

RFID settlement desk application process display

Secondly, the RFID smart settlement station uses automated settlement technology to realize real-time tracking and monitoring of food sales through RFID technology. It can record consumers' consumption records, and can easily grasp the data statistics within a specified time, which has a good supervisory and management effect on canteen sales. In addition, it is also conducive to precise marketing, carrying out membership points, discounts and various activities to improve consumer loyalty.

Third, the RFID smart settlement station provides a variety of payment methods. Diners can pay and settle through various methods such as swiping cards and scanning QR codes, fully taking into account the payment habits and needs of different consumers. This also greatly improves the convenience of settlement, allowing consumers to complete settlement faster and more conveniently.

Canteen visual checkout counter. The canteen visual settlement station is an intelligent catering equipment that realizes the settlement function through visual recognition technology. Compared with traditional catering settlement methods, it is more efficient and smarter, and can significantly improve the settlement service level of canteens. Below we will give a detailed introduction to the characteristics and application scenarios of the visual checkout counter in the canteen.

Visual settlement desk

First of all, the visual settlement station in the canteen uses artificial intelligence technology to identify food through cameras and automatically calculate its price, avoiding the tedious links and waiting in line in traditional settlement methods. Diners only need to place the selected dishes on the visual checkout table, and the camera can automatically identify them and display the price information on the display for diners to confirm. This process not only greatly reduces consumers’ waiting time, but also improves settlement accuracy and efficiency.

Secondly, the visual settlement counter in the canteen can also realize diversified settlement functions. Consumers can pay by swiping cards, scanning QR codes, etc. It supports multiple payment methods, which is also helpful to promote consumer consumption and is also easy to manage.

Third, the canteen visual checkout counter provides price lists and consumption records in a visual way. Price lists allow consumers to quickly check their expected dish prices, while consumption records can provide convenient settlement services and help managers better understand specific information and trends in food consumption, and conduct accurate market research and data analysis. .

Canteen weighing checkout counter. Also known as the buffet settlement station or weighing settlement station, it refers to a cafeteria settlement management system based on weight-based pricing. By setting up weighing equipment and computer software, it can count the weight of the food selected by the guests and calculate the corresponding price. , complete order settlement conveniently and quickly.

Weighing settlement application

Compared with traditional fixed-price Restaurants, the advantages of canteen weighing checkout counters mainly include the following aspects:

Emphasize the customer's right to choose: guests can choose the combination, portion and food type according to their own needs, so as to better meet individual needs.

Enhanced management efficiency: Through self-service ordering and weight-based pricing, food sales efficiency can be improved and manual management costs can be reduced.

Convenient sales analysis: Through computer data analysis, guests’ purchasing habits, food preferences and other information can be collected to better formulate marketing strategies.

Improved customer satisfaction: The canteen weighing checkout counter provides a more flexible service method and more transparent prices, which can meet the diverse needs of guests and improve customer satisfaction.

The above three smart canteen settlement methods reduce canteen costs, improve canteen operation efficiency, simplify canteen management, and enhance the overall image of the canteen.

Reduce canteen labor costs. Take a canteen that serves 3,000 people as an example: after the introduction of smart canteens, the canteen can save at least 6 workers. Calculated based on the labor cost of 4,000 yuan/person/month, the labor salary for one year is: 6*4000*12=288,000 yuan. With the introduction of wisdom, After the canteen is installed, it can help the canteen save 288,000 yuan in labor costs every year.

Smart Canteen Scan QR Code to Settlement

Improve canteen operation efficiency and dining efficiency. Online ordering + smart settlement equipment allows users to reduce queuing time and settlement time when dining, making dining more efficient; at the same time, it helps canteens improve operating efficiency! For example: the intelligent settlement desk can complete identification within 1 second and complete payment settlement within 3 seconds, which is equivalent to more than three times that of traditional manual settlement.

Canteen management is more convenient. In the traditional canteen business model: procurement, import and export, processing, on-site meal preparation, and daily financial statistics all need to be completed manually. The entire process is complicated and error-prone; after the introduction of smart canteens, food procurement, purchase, sale and inventory management, dishes Sample retention, financial statistics, etc. can all be supervised and completed within the system, making the entire management process simpler and more convenient.

Improve dining experience and overall image. The intelligent dining process in the smart canteen allows users to say goodbye to long queues and inferior dishes, greatly improving the user's dining experience; intelligent canteen management also allows the canteen to say goodbye to the messy and disorderly status quo, and smart devices are more conducive to improving The overall image of the canteen.

As a new catering management method, smart canteens have been widely used in many places. In the future, with the continuous development of technology, the application of this catering management method will continue to be upgraded and improved to provide better services for people's lives.