- Food Service Solutions
Infobox Company
company_name = Food Service Solutions, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 1989
founder = Mitch Johns, CEO
location_city = Altoona, Pennsylvania
location_country = USA
key_people = David Pisanick, CTO
industry =Computer Software
products = FSS POSitive ID, BioWedge, SecureID
company_slogan = "Feed More Kids"
homepage = [http://www.foodserve.com foodserve.com]Food Service Solutions, Inc is a software development company based out of
Altoona, Pennsylvania that successfully designed and implementedbiometrics into a lunchline. cite web | title=CBS News | work=Fingerprints Pay For School Lunch | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/24/national/main266789.shtml | accessdate=November 18 | accessyear=2007]Founded in 1989, FSS incorporates leading-edge biometric scanning technologies to provide a unique solution to the challenges facing educational and institutional foodservice providers. The company has established a position of market leadership addressing two serious problems that have historically plagued 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. [http://www.foodserve.com]
FSS unique combination of "shrink-wrap" software and advanced biometric technology provides schools with solutions they can use to manage programs with lower administrative costs, higher student participation (translating to higher federal and state financial support for the schools through programs such as the
USDA Federal School Lunch Program, and ultimately, a solution that "feeds more kids."FSS also has a webservice, [http://www.myschoolaccount.com www.myschoolaccount.com] 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. cite web | title=find Biometrics | work=Tough Love in the School Cafeteria Lunch Line | url=http://www.findbiometrics.com/press-release/4228 | accessdate=November 18 | accessyear=2007
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