Digital Canteen Ordering

The canteen module brings daily food ordering and kitchen coordination into the Classgrid platform, making campus food operations easier to manage. Institutions can create and manage canteen menu items with details such as price, category, image, availability, dietary tags, and stock limits. Daily specials can be configured for selected days, allowing canteens to promote rotating meals and time-based offers more consistently.

Students can place canteen orders digitally from their account, and item availability is checked before the order is accepted. Successful orders move into a live kitchen queue, giving canteen staff a clearer view of what needs to be prepared. Each order receives a pickup token, which makes collection simpler for students and easier for staff to coordinate during busy periods. Kitchen staff can move orders through statuses such as new, preparing, ready, delivered, or cancelled, keeping the order lifecycle visible.

Students can be updated when their order is ready for pickup, reducing crowding and confusion around the counter. Students can view previous canteen orders from their history and rate purchased items after the order is complete. These ratings help institutions understand food preferences, quality trends, and what students are ordering most often. Canteen managers also get useful visibility into daily revenue and top-selling items, helping them make better operational decisions. This improves speed, reduces queue confusion, and gives institutions a more organized way to manage campus food service.