"I also just wanted to let you know that I am very happy with your program, and your adding & updating features by listening to your customers. "

- Sue Ellingson
Technology Aide
Southeast Warren CSD

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At Information Services USA, we have been working with school technology for years. Our company has a full time team of network engineers who routinely work with local schools to install and maintain servers, switches, routers and firewalls. Our work with those schools from an engineering standpoint gives us a unique opportunity to understand how schools work, and design software products that perform.


With the School Dining System, you have the flexibility to use existing hardware for your POS systems. Built lean and clean, the Microsoft Windows POS will install and run well even on systems that are three or four years old. Our pricing model allows you to deploy as many POS systems as you wish across the district at no cost. If you have used computers in your school, you can deploy them as cafeteria POS systems. If you have money in the budget for new machines, we can offer great pricing on complete solutions.

The POS system supports touch screen monitors and is loaded with capabilities yet because we designed the interface with simplicity in mind, the average operator can run a POS with less than 10 minutes of training.

Each POS system must be at least a Pentium II class machine with 256MB Ram and 100MB free hard disk space. Operating systems supported are Windows 2000 and Windows XP Pro. The PC must have a way to access the school network either via Ethernet or WiFi. Connectivity during the actual serving of lunch is optional and the need for constant connectivity depends on your configuration.

We strongly recommend the use of touch screen monitors in any cafeteria. The more items available for purchase, the more important this becomes. Touch screen monitors are affordable, and significantly increase processing during those busy lunch rushes. We also highly recommend a bar code reader for your POS systems. This reader can scan bar-coded student ID cards quickly and eliminate operator error. The same reader can also be used to scan a la carte items such as beverages, chips and snacks.

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