One station at the line. Every meal identified, verified, and posted to your POS — while one staff member engages with students instead of a register.
The student uses whatever method your district already has in place: PIN entry, barcode scan, RFID, or other identifiers. There's no new credential to issue and nothing for families to sign up for. AristaVue plugs into the identification method you've already rolled out.
As the student steps up, the station's camera captures an image of the tray and the student together.
The captured image is processed to identify each meal component and apply NSLP or SBP rules to determine whether the meal qualifies as a reimbursable meal, à la carte items, or a combination of both. The result posts straight into the POS system you already run, charging the correct amount against the student's account with the itemized detail attached. No manual entry, no separate report to assemble later. Need to make an adjustment because a student forgot to grab a milk? That's easy to do in real time.
Because the student self-serves through identification and the system handles verification and compliance in the background, one staff member can supervise several lines at once instead of running a single register alone.
The AristaVue device can be bolted to a rail or set on a cart. It's designed to capture high quality images of students of every size. Audio and visual cues let the student and staff know when a transaction is successful, or if there is an issue.
The housing is available in multiple colors and can carry your school's name or logo, so the unit looks at home in your cafeteria.
Because Step 2 (image capture) and Step 3 (meal determination) happen for every tray, every meal, the audit trail is a byproduct of service — not a separate task your staff does later.
AristaVue is designed to run offline if your network connection drops. Students keep checking out and meals keep getting captured and processed at the station; once connectivity is restored, the transaction detail syncs to the POS and the student's account is charged. A network outage doesn't mean pulling out paper rosters or stopping the line.
AristaVue runs alongside your existing systems rather than replacing them:
No rip-and-replace. No new workflow for your cashiers to learn.
No — processing takes a few seconds per tray, not an instant real-time read. In practice this is fast enough that one staff member can still oversee multiple lines without a backup building up.
AristaVue keeps running. The station continues capturing and processing meals offline; transaction and charge detail syncs to your POS once the connection is back. Lines don't stop for an outage.
Yes — that determination happens automatically during processing, and the student's account is charged the correct amount for each, combined in a single transaction.