Diary Giant goes Cashless thanks to Systopia and AURES

TUSTIN, Calif. - Nov. 27, 2014 - PRLog -- A cashless payment solution from specialist developer Systopia International running on AURES touchscreen terminals is now used by 700 staff at the headquarters facility of a major food producer. Smart technology combines both caterer-served and self-service modes.

Having built a new global Home Office and located its employee dining space within a stunning glass atrium in the building’s center, it was a natural step for the food producer to deploy the latest and smartest payment technology to manage its food service operations.

Working closely with in-house caterer, Aramark, Systopia International designed a cashless payment solution based upon using staff security RFID badges as the cashless credentials.  Systopia turned to its hardware partner AURES and selected its Sango PC-based till management system to run the solution.

Sango touchscreen POS terminals are located at the dining area serving lines, where transactions are processed largely by cashless card.  However, staff and visitors wishing to use cash or a debit or credit card may do so.

The dining solution has been configured in a unique way to enable the Sangos to operate as self-pay terminals after hours.  Explains Kristi Noyes, Operations Director, Systopia International: “There’s an interesting twist to the way we’re using Sangos here.  When lunch service ends and the Aramark cashiers go home, the units are rotated (on a “Lazy Susan” type plate) to face the customer and provide self-checkout.  So, if employees want to snack after 2:30, they head for the ‘grab and go’ area to a cooler filled with pre-packaged salads, sandwiches, yoghurts and drinks.  These bar-coded items can be purchased using the employee’s cashless payment credential (their RFID badge).”

In addition, each of the new building’s five levels offers a kitchenette area, featuring a beverage vending machine equipped with Systopia card readers.  Employees simply select their beverage, tap their security badge on the reader and purchases are immediately debited from their cashless account.

Systopia and Sango are present too in the Employee Store, where the POS solution runs as a retail application networked into the same cashless account that staff use for food & beverage purchases. In this location, employees purchase items such as branded apparel, shipping services or attractively-priced dairy products.

“A number of our clients want to offer their employees a 24-hour service so we see this C-store type model becoming very popular in corporate areas. It’s important to note that the self-pay terminal we have created using our cashless application and the Sango is significantly more cost-effective for a corporate client than purchasing a traditional self-service kiosk,” Ms Noyes stresses.