{"id": 7, "title": "A Practical Guide to Cashless Food Courts at Fests", "slug": "cashless-food-courts-college-fests", "language": "en", "language_name": {"code": "en", "name": "English", "native": "English"}, "original_article": null, "category": 2, "category_name": "Business", "category_slug": "business", "meta_description": "Step-by-step breakdown of how to run a fully cashless food court at college fests using prepaid balances.", "body": "<p>Cashless food courts remove the usual chaos of tokens, loose change, and manual settlement. By loading a prepaid balance to a card or wristband, students simply tap at any counter and move on.</p>\r\n<p>Vendors benefit because every transaction is recorded with time, item, and stall details. Settlement at the end of the day becomes a simple report export instead of a long argument over rough notes.</p>\r\n<p>For colleges, a digital layer over food stalls opens up new models like revenue sharing, live discount campaigns, and stall performance tracking without standing at the counter.</p>", "excerpt": "Cashless food courts reduce queues, stop leakage, and give clear reports to vendors and organisers.", "tags": "food-management, cashless, college-fests, nfc", "author": 1, "author_name": "Prabhav Jain", "status": "published", "created_at": "2025-12-04T21:35:04.093016Z", "updated_at": "2025-12-04T21:35:04.093032Z", "published_at": "2025-12-04T21:35:04.092794Z", "available_translations": [{"id": 7, "language": "en", "language_name": "English", "title": "A Practical Guide to Cashless Food Courts at Fests", "slug": "cashless-food-courts-college-fests"}]}