Development of Online Food Ordering System for University Students to Maintain Healthy Eating Habits

Healthy diet is one of the key components that the university students must maintain for keeping themselves active and sincere to their studies. Hence, a system automates this process will be an excellent reward for them as university students are always engaged to various activities. The proposed online food ordering system developed with the aim to reduce the reason for university students to pick up an unhealthy eating habit and ease the process for university students to order their meals. The inspiration of this proposed system is to enhance a similar system such as, “UI Dining” which is a mobile application that provides nutritional information and the complete menu of the dining services within the campus developed by the University of Illinois for their students, and “Foodpanda Malaysia” which is a food delivery service started with one goal in mind, which is to be the most convenient food delivery service in Malaysia. The developed system allows the students to order meal through online mobile application, provides ingredient and nutritional information of all menus, reduces reason for students to skip a meal or eat something that is not nutritious, and help them to avoid consuming ingredients that they are allergic to.