I believe everyone is familiar with the consumption machine, in the campus time, when the bell rings after class, the students rushed to the canteen to eat, the primary school, middle school, and university, as always, use the school-issued meal card to swipe the card on the canteen consumption machine to buy food. In fact, in addition to being used in campuses, consumption machines are also used in more places such as enterprises, supermarkets, and playgrounds, thanks to advances in technology, the application value of consumption machine has gradually emerged.

1. The development of consumption machines

In my country, with the development and technological progress brought about by the reform and opening up in the 1970s, the application of canteen consumption machines has become popular in industrial areas, its emergence has begun to replace the traditional canteen meal ticket consumption model, and it is more convenient to manage, because of its small investment, easy management and electronic operation, it has become a "star" in the corporate canteen.

2. The application value of consumption machines

The application of the consumption machine, from a management perspective, can eliminate the loss, counterfeit and broken money in the circulation process of the enterprise meal ticket consumption mode, and saves the manpower, material and financial resources in the exchange of paper tickets and cash, withdrawal, counting, and custody, and improves the management level. From the user's point of view, funds are injected into the card at one time (or in installments), for the user himself, there is no need to carry cash, which ensures the safety of funds and avoids the trouble of finding change. From a financial perspective, plug the funding loopholes. Save manpower and material resources. Facilitate consumption statistics. Speed up sales and improve efficiency. From the perspective of expansion, the system can be extended to an enterprise one card pass to realize the functions of internal consumption and management such as canteen sales, attendance and access control, library management, and computer charging, etc., to avoid repeated investment.

3. The future of consumption machines

In the past five years, the industry development and total production volume of canteen consumption machines have continued to increase, with the continuous development of technology, smart consumption machines incorporating new technologies have begun to be widely accepted by the market. With the changes in consumption structure, more and more people are pursuing more convenient ways of consumption, "Smart" has become a new term adapted to economic development and users’ pursuit of speed, this also ushered in new opportunities for the future development of smart consumption machines.

The intelligence of consumption machines makes them serve users more and canteen managers. More convenient consumption and better service levels will appear in the future of intelligence.