Mess Management System for Streamlining Meal Services

A mess management system is a software product that helps university hostel mess and canteen administration streamline their mess operations, such as staff management, inventory management, student footfall management, and queue management. It also allows students to plan and pre-book meals with the convenience of contactless meal booking and cashless payments.

The SpaceBasic mess management system offers a plethora of benefits to the universities that employ this intuitive solution. Mess and canteen administrators can now:
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• Set up dynamic meal options for everyday student bookings
• Offer students and their guests the means to avail meal coupons through QR-based ordering
• Automate their billing process to enable online and cashless payments for students
• Prioritize food quality checks in collaboration with students via a robust feedback and communication channel
• Minimize inventory wastage and costs, avoid stockouts and overstocking with an intelligent inventory tracker
• Analyze food consumption trends, student footfall, curb food wastage and associated costs with AI-powered analytics

The SpaceBasic mess management system converts the raw data accumulated on regular food consumption and wastage into actionable insights. Mess and canteen managers leverage these insights to efficiently plan their inventory, menus, and portion sizes, which results in a substantial reduction in food wastage.

The SpaceBasic mess management systems can address the shortcomings of all types of messes, dining, and canteen facilities while helping them fast-track their digital transformation journey.

Leading universities in India, such as Manipal Academy of Higher Education, PES University, REVA University, and DY Patil University, are among the many notable names on the long list of institutions deploying the SpaceBasic mess management software. These universities have been able to reduce their food wastage on campus by up to 50%. At the same time, SpaceBasic helped them book over 3 million meals and 1 million QR scans at cafeterias and saved over 3 crores worth of food.