## 3 Research: Information of the School Nutrition System
### Information Resources Providing Automation of School Catering  
In the item \"availability of information resources providing automation of processes of the system of the organization of catering for schoolchildren,\" general education organizations were to provide information on the use of certain programs and information systems allowing to automate the functional processes of school nutrition system. School websites, indicated by the representatives of constituent entities of the Russian Federation as separate information resources, were not included in the calculation. The introduction of cashless payment is one of the key forms of organization and control of meals for schoolchildren in the context of automation of school catering. Allservices of the information system developed for cashless payment a priori give the family and their children an option to choose school meals, taking into account various food restrictions (e.g., intolerance to some foods or gluten, etc.). These services allow parents to visit a special website and form a menu for the day or week, organize personalized meals, and synchronize meals of the child at school and at home. The issue of cashless payment is fundamentally important in situations where parents give their children cash to pay for food at school. In this case, parents have no opportunity to control what the child has bought (e.g., buffet meals or food from vending machines instead of hot lunches). Cashless payments make this information transparent, which contributes to the formation of healthy eating behavior in children and their families. The availability of information resources providing the possibility of automated non-cash payments for meals in general education organizations, with the name and link to the official website, is confirmed by 39 subjects of the Russian Federation (45.9%). According to the indicators provided by the representatives of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, these resources are used by 6977 general education organizations (17.4%). The following information resources are indicated most frequently:  
* System of cashless payment for meals \"Ladoshki\" (developed by JSC \"Raschetnie resheniya\" with the support of Sberbank);
* System \"School Card\" (developed by LLC Processing Center \"Aksioma\");
* System \"School Card\" (developed by JSCB \"Avangard\"). Many constituent entities of the Russian Federation use their own regional developments. For example, all general education institutions in Moscow use the services of the project \"Moskvenok\" to organize school meals (information system \"pass-through and feeding\"). This service provides the opportunity to manage hot meals, control purchases in the cafeteria, replenish the child's personal account, etc. In the Republic of Bashkortostan, there is a system \"ELSCHOOL\"--a unified free e-school project, which, among other functions, allows one to control food in school. The system \"Electronic school of the Tyumen Region\" includes the \"nutrition accounting\" module. The Ryazan and Sverdlovsk regions present interesting experiences. In these regions, the functionality of the card for schoolchildren is integrated with the transport card. The Ryazan Region uses the transport card Umka \"School.\" It is a personal plastic card, key-chain, or bracelet for schoolchildren at general education organizations in Ryazan. This card is designed for cashless payment of fares in urban passenger transport and is currently integrated with the food program in school canteens and cafeterias. The e-card, a Yekaterinburg transport card, is used in a similar scenario.