US 62173503 A description the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiment as illustrated in the accompanying drawings while numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention it should be clear to those skilled in the art that not all of the details are required for the invention to work and that other variations may be possible which also are within the scope of the present invention also some well known procedures or equipment have been omitted from this description in order to not unnecessarily obscure the present invention in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention as broadly shown in fig1 dining system ds processing center prc 1 issues an identification card ds card 2 to student 3 who visits dining establishment de 4 and receives food services 5 while presenting ds card 2 dining establishment de 4 communicates 6 with prc 1 in order to post the dining transaction and cause the student 39 s account to be debited and the de 39 s account to be credited money 8 is added to the student 39 s account by parent or student 9 when needed and periodically prc 1 issues payment to de 4 for the services rendered to the students in further detail as shown in fig2 the dining system ds in the preferred embodiment comprises processing center prc 201 which is connected through firewall 207 to public web server pws 202 and the internet 208 public web server pws 202 is used by students and parents to access their accounts via the web for example this machine may be a moderately powered intel based system running freebsd apache and or php processing center prc 201 which will.