Vending in Education
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Universities and colleges can also be ideal places to site vending machines - although campuses will have healthy eating plans in place, the regulations that govern under-18 education sites do not higher education facilities. With teenagers and young adults often living away from home for the first time and unused to shopping for themselves, healthy vending machines in students’ residences and dorms can provide a way to access quality food and drink at any hour. Students are notorious for working at unsociable times, and fuelling those midnight library sessions when the campus shops are closed can be a problem. Vending can cater for all a student’s midnight cravings, from high quality coffee to snacks, even to full meals (check out the May issue of VI for more information on hot food vending). “Students and staff represent a discrete set of customers, regularly gathering together in one location,” commented cashless payment software provider Monitorit. “Students are generally already technology-savvy and adopters; they’re over 40%more likely to h a smartphone than the overall UK population, and phones are ideal for identity verification and transaction processing in a cashless environment. The natural sense of community, coupled with brand loyalty to the institution, can help to catalyse uptake of the system.
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Students are predisposed to engage with discounts, promotions and loyalty rewards, which can help achieve a rapid system launch.” Tony Smith, national sales manage vending at Jacobs Douwe Egberts Professio told VI: “According to a poll conducted by J
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HYDRATION
Appropriate hydration of the body is an absolute requirement for health, and is essential for life itself, as water sustains the body’s many vital chemical reactions and maintains correct body functions. When we are well hydrated, brain cells are better supplied with fresh, oxygen-laden blood, and the brain remains alert. Mild dehydration, a 1%to 2%loss in body weight, can impair the ability to concentrate, so ensuring pupils are well-hydrated is conducive to aiding their learning. If children are dehydrated they will find it difficult to focus on their studies and succeed.
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According to the European Hydration Institute, there is some evidence that providing drinks to children can help them to perform better in standardised tests of concentration, short term memory and other essential elements of the learning process. More evidence is needed before definitive guidelines can be given, but teachers may need to make sure that there are opportunities for drinking during the school day and that children are reminded to make use of these opportunities.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)* has concluded that adequate intakes of water for children are as follows:
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9 to 13 years: 2,100 ml/day 8 years: 1,600 ml/day 3 years: 1,300 ml/day
• Girls 9 to 13 years: 1,900 ml/day
• Adolescents of 14 years+ are considered adults with respect to adequate water intake.
Water coolers and bottled water have been integrated into all aspects of our public and private lives, as the health and lifestyle benefits of sufficient hydration are recognised. In educational establishments particularly, water also provides a vital boost to concentration.
Other drinks like coffee, tea and juices all help to replenish vital fluids and the quality of the water content is key: “Environmental factors at the source can affect taste, smell and texture, and therefore the water used in products like coffee and tea, which are 98-99%water, is an essential factor in the quality of the finished product,” insists leading market researc h company Mintel .
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