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 increasing concerns regarding childhood obesity. Healthy Vending helps provide solutions to these problems while generating additional benefits to your school. With Horizon’s smart-enabled Healthy Vending, you will be able to increase revenue and reduce labor costs significantly by utilizing 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 meals anywhere on campus.
• Improve participation by allowing students to use prepaid accounts.
• Designate the entire campus as a food 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.
• 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.
• Enhance your school’s image with this cutting-edge solution that is a popular topic with news media.
• Customize the Healthy Vending machines with your school logo and colors to draw attention to the machines.

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

• Increase POS line speed due to added POS units.
• Reduce cashier labor and increase meals per labor hour.
• Reduce cash handling.
• Minimize inventory shrinkage by providing positive inventory accountability.
• Offer 24/7 a la carte and 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. Strategically placed Healthy Vending machines can result in shutting down competitive junk food sales during meal periods.
• Provide parental monitoring of vending purchases by students via MealpayPlus.
• Eliminate portion control and temperature problems.
• Reduce 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 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. Data is communicated in a highly reliable and trouble-free environment.
• Set up plan-o-grams easily utilizing OneSource POS drag and drop setup process.
• Monitor the vending machines through the console for temperature, inventory, cash, connectivity, mechanical functions and power.
• Provide extensive security with video snapshot of the patron for every purchase and live streaming video through the console.
• 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.