MealpayPlus makes the news:
San Francisco Examiner March 6, 2010
Swipe your card, get a meal
Schoolchildren in The City are getting their own form of a debit card to purchase cafeteria food, and the new system will allow parents to track what their kids are eating and should help the cash-strapped school district gain more funding from the federal government for its food needs.
...Parents can prepay for meals on a weekly, monthly or one-time basis using their bank routing number, credit card or debit card, and they can enter payments into an online account that can track a pupil’s history of purchases, along with the type of meals they ordered, said Nancy Waymack, the district’s director of policy and operations.
“If for some reason their child didn’t eat lunch that day, [parents] will know it,” she said.
Among its benefits, the cashless system helps to speed up food lines — which will hopefully lure more students into eating at school cafeterias — and saves on administrative costs, Waymack said.
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(Note: the photo was not taken in a San Francisco school cafeteria.)
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