The first smart cloud restaurant in Chinese universities was officially opened at the City College of Wenzhou University. Later, many high-efficiency models began to try the smart canteen, bringing together more than 60 kinds of food from all over the country.

Once entered the canteens of these colleges and universities, we can see the terminals of the cloud recipes. Several students are clicking the touch screen and then a menu of dishes appears in their eyes. Just scan the QR code and then can add the cloud restaurant. The diners can quickly check the bills at the same time, not only can they know the price of selected dishes, and the content of nutrients such as vitamins and proteins.

The construction of a smart canteen is a huge project for colleges and universities. It not only requires a lot of money, labors and material resources, but also the acceptance of ideas is an important process. But why are so many universities, especially key universities, still insist on building smart canteens?

On the one hand, the traditional old dining model is facing the following major problems:

1) Low efficiency

Due to the large number of people and over-concentration of dining time, the restaurant area is small, and the efficiency of the waiters is far from meeting the needs of the students.

2) High cost

In order to ensure the efficiency of student dining, school have to hire more waiters and the labor cost is huge. At the same time, since there are fewer students eating at non-dining time and the waste of human resources is serious, the problem needs to be solved urgently.

3) Severe food waste

The current canteens in colleges and universities are still the model of “What canteen do then what teachers and students eat”. The canteen cannot accurately predict the dining needs of teachers and students on the day. This will inevitably lead to some food being wasted.

On the other hand, “smart cafeteria” is a systematic project. It not only possesses professional terminal but also has special requirements for restaurant construction, that is, it is necessary to set dishes in the discretion zone. “Smart canteen”, as its name, it is no longer the general dining place. It is an intelligent new dining mode that can provide the following services:

1) Self-service consumption. Choose what you want to eat just like shopping in the supermarket. Finish payment just require to put the plate on the weighing scale, then put your NFC card near the smart Pos Terminal. Changes in the dining and paying model enhance the overall image and modern management of college canteens.

2) It is safer and healthier. The “intelligent canteen” has a selection area for dishes. All freshly-baked dishes are placed in the constituency and are accepted by the diners. Safety and hygiene are guaranteed.

3) "Smart canteen" is a brand new dining mode. The dining and dining staff can fully interact with each other. The eating staff can mark the food taste and improve the service level of the restaurant canteen.

4) “Smart canteen” dinning speed is faster than fast food. One of the characteristics of the Chinese people is they are urgent. It can satisfy people's desire to eat delicious food easily.

5) Settlement accuracy rate is 100%, settlement automation, accurate and rapid.

6) Price transparency to meet people's requirements for information transparency.

7) The operation mode of the Internet era satisfies the self-service demands of online and offline consumption, recharge, and loss reporting.

8) Reduce labor cost. The “smart canteen” is self-helping from a la carte, serving, dining, and settlement. It is very quick, and customers can complete dining without the help of a restaurant service staff..

9) Facilitate scientific management. “Smart canteen” management system has data analysis capabilities. All consumption details can be aggregated into various reports. It can analyze the details of recent teacher and student dining to further analyze and predict the future teachers and students dining trends, so as to avoid wasting food .

The machines that CCTV was reported on and used by major universities are the H2116 and H2156A developed and produced by Hua Rui.

H2116 is a dual-screen 11.6+11.6-inch intelligent cash register Pos terminal, 4-core RK3288 processor, Android 6.0 customized system, comes with WIFI, Bluetooth, Ethernet and other communication ways, support 4G/3G/2G network. H2116 also has a lot of external interfaces, can be connected to the money box, printers and scanners, is the real sense of an intelligent cash register.

Compared to H2116, H2156A uses 15.6 +15.6-inch touch screen, which meets the diverse needs of intelligent dining in different universities.

According to the above report, it can be seen that the implementation of the "smart canteen" has brought great convenience and benefits to the teachers and students of colleges and universities as well as the canteen managers. Information construction is the trend of the development of colleges and universities, and the canteen management information is an important part of it.

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