## 3 Research: Information of the School Nutrition System
### Information Resources Providing Automation of School Catering
The percentage of general education institutions using systems of automated cashless payments for meals by federal districts is presented in Table 1.  
The following constituent entities of the Russian Federation indicated the highest percentage of use of systems for automated non-cash payment for meals by general education institutions: Moscow (100%), Belgorod region (100%), Republic of Bashkortostan (100%), Tyumen region (100%), and St. Petersburg (90.4%). The indicators of other subjects of the Russian Federation did not exceed 50%. The availability of information resources to ensure the use of automated parental control (checking the child's food, the ban on the purchase of certain types of products, the limit of daily spending in the cafeteria, etc. ), with the name and link to the official website, is confirmed by 30 subjects of the Russian Federation (35.3%). According to the indicators provided by the representatives of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, these resources are used by 5615 general education institutions (13.9%). Popular resources are the same as those listed in the paragraph about using automated cashless systems for meal payments. The percentage of educational institutions using automated parental controls over school meals by federal districts is shown in Table 2.  
The following constituent entities of the Russian Federation indicated the highest percentage of using automated parental control of school meals by general education organizations: Moscow (100%), Belgorod Region (100%), Republic of Bashkortostan (100%), and St. Petersburg (90.4%). The indicators of other subjects of the Russian Federation did not exceed 50%. The availability of information resources for automated meal selections by children and their parents (legal representatives), with the name and link to the official website, is confirmed by 18 constituent entities of the Russian Federation (21.2%). According to the indicators provided by the representatives of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, these resources are used by 1538 general education organizations (3.8%). Popular resources are the same as those listed in the paragraph about using automated cashless systems for meal payments and automated parental controls. The percentage of general education institutions using tools for automated meal selection for children and their parents by federal districts is shown in Table 3. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} \hline \hline _No._ & _Federal District_ & \multicolumn{2}{c}{_Number of General Education Organizations (EO)_} \\ \cline{3-3}  & _pcs._ & **\% of the Total Number of EOs** \\ \hline
1 & Volga Federal District & 3082 & 31.60 \\
2 & Northwestern Federal District & 692 & 24.59 \\
3 & Central Federal District & 1626 & 19.86 \\
4 & Ural Federal District & 533 & 19.60 \\
5 & Siberian Federal District & 621 & 10.30 \\
6 & Southern Federal District & 299 & 7.22 \\
7 & Far Eastern Federal District & 124 & 3.80 \\
8 & North Caucas Federal District & 0 & 0.00 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} Note: the data are given, based on the monitoring of the organization of catering in public general education organizations (August-September 2020). The monitoring was conducted in the territory of 85 subjects of the Russian Federation from 7 August 2020 to 20 September 2020. Representatives of the executive authorities of the Russian subjects and the state administrators in the field of education were responsible for filling out the monitoring forms. _Source:_ compiled by the authors based on [19].  
\end{table} 
Table 1: The number of educational institutions using systems of automated cashless payments for meals in federal districts of the Russian Federation.