Canteen system for a manufacturing company

Gastromax provides catering services for large manufacturing and service companies. The aim of this unusual project was to modernise and automate processes related to ordering, issuing and settlement of meals for employees. We achieved success - for nearly two years, our system has been providing comfortable and effective catering services for one of the largest international retail chains.

Our task was to implement a system in a large, international corporation which would help optimise processes, and in particular - allow for the reduction of food waste and streamline settlements between the catering provider and the person ordering the meals.

A seemingly simple task was associated with high expectations - with 2,000 employees and meals served in four canteens, until now there was never any certainty that what the kitchen prepared would match the expectations of consumers. Thanks to the implementation of our solution, the costs of meal production have been reduced and the satisfaction of the company's employees has increased considerably.

In the project, we used components of the EXSO+ platform, extending them with mechanisms related to the operation of terminals and RFID readers. For the convenience of employees ordering meals, the system interface has been adapted to personal mobile devices.

The system handles the ordering and planning of meals for almost 2,000 users. The factory employees order lunches in various sets, thanks to which the catering company can plan purchases for selected variants of lunches and reduce food waste.

The software we developed is integrated with hardware supplied by EXSO, which is placed at the serving counter and in the kitchen. Thanks to this, employees who want to pick up a pre-ordered lunch have to scan only once on the card reader, while the staff serving meals receives information on a tablet whether a given meal was actually ordered and what variant to serve.