Food Service Solutions

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{{Infobox company

| name = Food Service Solutions, Inc.

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| type = Private

| foundation = {{start date and age|1989}}

| founder = Mitch Johns, President, CEO

| location_city = Altoona, Pennsylvania

| location_country = United States

| key_people = David Pisanick, Vice-President, COO

| industry = Software

| products = FSS POSitive ID, BioWedge, SecureID

| homepage = [http://www.foodserve.com foodserve.com]

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Food Service Solutions, Inc is a software development company based out of Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States that successfully designed and implemented biometrics into a lunchline.{{cite news | title=CBS News | work=Fingerprints Pay For School Lunch | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/24/national/main266789.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020601171100/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/24/national/main266789.shtml | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 1, 2002 | accessdate=November 18, 2007 | date=January 24, 2001}}

Founded in 1989, FSS uses biometric scanning technology to provide services for educational and institutional foodservice providers. The company has established a position of market leadership addressing two problems in school-based foodservice operations. The first is that school children eligible for free or reduce-fee lunches through government assistance programs often fail to participate because of the perceived social stigma associated with showing a special card or meal ticket in front of other students. The second is that in the foodservice POS industry, software has historically been proprietary, cumbersome for clients to self-administer, and difficult to integrate with other technologies.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}

FSS also has a webservice, www.myschoolaccount.com where parents can view what their child has been eating, what their lunch account balance is and also make payments with their credit card or checking/savings account.{{cite web | title=find Biometrics | work=Tough Love in the School Cafeteria Lunch Line | url=http://www.findbiometrics.com/press-release/4228 | accessdate=November 18, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214120022/http://www.findbiometrics.com/press-release/4228 | archive-date=December 14, 2007 | url-status=dead }}

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