Kids school dinners in the UK.

[Bitbandit]

Hi - just listened to this programme on the BBC (if you want to catch
it, it is available until next Sunday (10th Jan) - classic problem,
reaction solution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/radio/episode/b00pj3z0/

PROBLEM: Kids' food in the school canteens has been allowed to get
horrible and nutritionally deficient over the lastcouple of decades.
In 2003, Jamie Oliver did a TV expose on this issue (you might say he
was "tapped").

REACTION: You can only guess what sort of outcry there was among the
public.

SOLUTION: Largely accepted. A "food for life" partnership has been
working on a new delivery scheme for food for children - featuring:
- biometrics. The kids show a face or hand, and the system identifies
them, and what they are eating, so that their diet can be tracked. A
big "bonus" is that their parent's can receive reports on what is
going on in the school cafeteria.
- cashless - by time that this is done, the kids will be totally
comfortable operating in a cashless system for something as basic as
food.
(At the moment, it is just fingerprints that they need - it would
probably take some kind of crisis - like kids abusing the fingerprint
system, for it to be switched to faciall recognition or iris
scanning).

PROLOGUE: Watch for this at a kids school cafeteria near to you, real
soon.