Paying for School Dinners
Credit cards and the internet are not playing a part in purchases of school lunches.
The days of children handing a brown paper bag and coins to the canteen lady – or being bullied for their lunch money – are coming to an end as school lunches go cashless and thousands of families set up online accounts to order food.
The new system is a double bonus for parents and kids, reducing the prospect of children being robbed and cutting the opportunity for them to visit local fast food outlets instead.
A range of online lunch systems are being tested in government and non-government schools across New South Wales, some involving special swipe cards used by students at the point of purchase.
Parent Harry Inns, who has three boys at Holy Cross Primary School at Glenwood in Sydney’s west, said the electronic lunch program Munch Monitor worked like a toll system.
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