Need a way to decrease expenses and increase revenue? Turn your school’s vending machines into cashierless point-of-service lines

The benefits and fast return on investment make Horizon’s Healthy Vending solution a smart choice.

Many of today’s school lunchrooms are ideally suited for smart-enabled vending due to crowded POS lines, students who avoid eating in the cafeteria, and the increased incidence of overweight. Healthy Vending helps solve these problems and provides benefits to the district as well. You will be able increase revenue and reduce labor costs significantly with this revolutionary vending technology.

Horizon’s Healthy Vending solution is seamlessly integrated with:
POS – MealpayPlus – Inventory Management

INCREASE PARTICIPATION AND REVENUE

Horizon's Healthy Vending Solution Offers Many Advantages

• Add more POS lines inexpensively with the Healthy Vending smart-enabled technology.
• Increase revenue by serving nutritious federally-reimbursable meals anywhere on campus.
• Improve participation by allowing students to use eligibilities and prepaid accounts.
• Designate the entire campus as a lunch serving area by placing healthy vending machines in strategic areas—where the students congregate.
• Set up the smart-enabled vending machines to follow your business rules, such as start and end times for meal sales.
• Utilize food based and NuMenus options.
• Eliminate the need for staff members selling a la carte items.
• Ensure the correct student is being charged for the meal through the photo record that is kept with the journal report. The vending machines also require two forms of identification to purchase a reimbursable meal.
• Enhance your district’s image with this cutting-edge solution that is a popular topic with news media.
• Customize the Healthy Vending machines with your district or school logo and colors to draw attention to the machines.

Increase profitability and address a multitude of problems with smart-enabled Healthy Vending machines.

• Speed up serving lines.
• Reduce cashier labor and increase meals per labor hour.
• Reduce cash handling.
• Minimize inventory shrinkage.
• Offer 24/7 ala carte/beverage capability.

ACCOMPLISH WELLNESS GOALS

Healthy Vending provides benefits that help you accomplish your wellness program goals, and it helps reduce some health risks.

• Replace junk vending choices with healthy choices.
• View nutrition information with the touch of a key.
• Provide parental monitoring of vending purchases by students via MealpayPlus.
• Eliminate portion control and temperature problems.
• Lower food handling and airborne disease risks.
• Ensure HACCP compliance.

The financial benefits pay for the machines in short order.

• Minimize cash handling.
• Reduce labor costs and increase meals per labor hour.
• Generate comprehensive POS and accountability reports with complete audit capabilities. Healthy Vending machines act just like another POS line with all account and reporting capabilities.
• Run vending-specific reports for individual machines, all machines or selected machines to identify popular items and trends.
• Realize a fast return on your investment (ROI) with the increased revenue and decreased costs.

UTILIZE STATE-OF-THE-ART HARDWARE AND TECHNOLOGY

Benefit from cutting-edge technology and excellent service.

• Access real-time account balances and eligibility statuses. Data is communicated in a highly reliable and trouble-free environment.
• Setup Planograms utilizing OneSource POS drag and drop setup process.
• Monitor the vending machines through the console for temperature, inventory, cash, connectivity, mechanical functions, power
• Provide extensive security with video snapshot of the patron for every purchase.
• Receive fast, reliable service through the extensive dealer/distributor network.
• Meet all USDA, HACCP, ADA and FDA regulations and guidelines.
• Ensure successful vends with drop sensors.
• Vend a complete meal with one drop or choose component-based vending.
• Shut down machines automatically if all components are not available according to USDA regulations.