Midwest Card offers several state-of the-art cafeteria management solutions, including systems from Food Service Solutions and Infiner/Datacard. These systems can include bar code, magnetic strips, smart card, and even biometric technologies, so that your point-of-sale solution is not only robust but easy to use and adaptable to your preferred "technology of choice".

Midwest Card will assist with an evaluation of your current cafeteria management processes and software, then make recommendations on the best "system fit" for your particular situation. Many of our systems use "card-based" technologies like bar codes or magnetic strips, but we also provide pen-driven and biometrically driven solutions as well.

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State-of-the-ArtPOSitiveID Verification for Point-of-Sale Systems

The heart of Food Service Solutions' cafeteria point of sale, POSitive ID™ System³ is a Sagem-Morpho® biometric scanner. We chose finger biometrics because of its accuracy, speed, expandability, and cost effectiveness. Biometrics eliminates lost or forgotten swipe cards, sharing of Personal Identification Numbers (PIN's), fraudulent ID card use or exchange, and card issuing or replacement costs.

Never again will a student hold up a lunch line to search for his/her ID card, fear peer pressure for being on a Free or Reduced meal plan, or have someone else charge a meal on their account. With a Sagem-Morpho® biometric scanner, the student carries their ID with them at all times. In addition, both parents and students can rest assured that the biometric images cannot be used by law enforcementfor identification purposes. Only a mathematical algorithm remains in the system after registration…..not fingerprint images.

Benefits of Biometric Scanning

• Fully integrated into POSitive ID™ System³.
• Eliminates the cost of issuing, replacement, and fraudulent use of cards.
• Expandable to access control, time & attendance, event admission, parking lot security and school bus student tracking.
• No additional costs
• Provides irrefutable evidence of a student's identification.
• Safe, secure, and accurate.

A Windows-based software application that can be configured to your site requirements.ChipNet 3 covers a wide range of smartcard-based solutions for enterprise automation and control.

ChipNet incorporates a range of terminals designed to be interfaced to photocopiers and printers.  Copies can be charged at four different prices, depending on paper size and color.

This self-service card revaluation center makes it easy for customers, employees, students and other authorized users to check their card balances and add cash value to their cards. The card center allows users to insert cash and convert it to value on their cards automatically. It’s that easy - we have preschoolers doing it everyday!

Connected to a point-of sale terminal, the 8650 Smartcard Terminal facilitates cashless payment using a chipcard. The reader provides the core functionality of any chipcard-operated application such as time-related discounts, subsidies and allowances. Full transactional details are recorded and related back for reporting purposes!

ChipNet terminals can be interfaced to a wide variety of host equipment from point-of-sale and vending machines to office equipment, such as photocopiers and network printers. Terminals can be configured to operate in stand-alone or networked mode.

Designed for maximum speed and ease of use, these POS terminals offer multi-line graphic displays for intuitive, user-friendly operation and allow full transaction details to be viewed.