Managing large-scale food services in a university, factory, or a corporate campus - comes with challenges

Pain Areas of Canteen Stakeholders

  • Inaccurate meal planning due to lack of headcount visibility
  • High food wastage, especially during weekends, vacations, or events
  • Manual coupon/token distribution systems prone to misuse
  • No integration between attendance data and kitchen preparation
  • Poor data on student/staff preferences and meal popularity
  • Long queues and delays during peak meal times
Canteen Management System Software Metaguard

Metaguard’s Canteen Management Solution brings intelligence, automation, and real-time control to food service operations across campuses and institutions

1. Turnstile Gate Systems

Track real-time entry/exit of staff and students across hostels, academic blocks, and cafeterias. Get an instant view of who is on campus.

2. AI-Powered Analytics

Our backend software studies:

Presence trends

Meal preferences by day / dish

Peak timings and crowd management

This helps optimize cooking volumes and meal planning.

3. Integrated Meal Authorization

Only authorized users can access food counters – via biometric or FaceMatch verification. Auto-link with attendance to ensure fair meal allocation.

4. Kitchen Forecast Dashboard

A real-time dashboard for kitchen admins showing:

How many people are expected per meal

Dish-specific preferences

Alerts for unusual dips or surges

5. Reporting & Insights

Get daily/weekly/monthly insights on:

Meal Consumption

Waste Levels

Cost Savings

Department-wise food demand

One of India’s leading universities faced food wastage from over-prepared meals for 12,000+ students and staff.

After deploying our system:

1

Monthly cost dropped from ₹1.08 Cr to ₹95.04 Lakhs

2

₹12.96 Lakhs saved every month

3

Wastage reduced by 12%

4

Meal planning aligned with actual presence

5

Kitchen upgraded with saved funds

Ready to Bring Smart Efficiency to Your Canteen?

Whether you serve 500 or 15,000 meals a day, our Canteen Management Solution adapts to your scale and goals.

Let’s transform your food services into a lean, intelligent operation.

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NFC Story

The “Assistance Control” project was inspired by the basic idea of the “Bologna Process”, a Pan-European collaboration which started in 1999, to adapt technology to provide a better quality of education that would allow improvement of the next generation of classroom teaching.
The best project finally chosen and tested involved students registered for classes with NFC phones, during the academic year 2011–2012 at “Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Campus Madrid” (UPSAM).
This resulted in the senior students at the School of Computer Engineering to certify 99.5% accuracy and ease of attendance that ensured continuous assessment without loss of instructional time allocated to this activity.

Source : Science Direct Volume 40 Issue 11, 1st September 2013, Pages 4478-4489