Restaurant and restaurant building

• US 20060085264A1
• Filed: 08/30/2004
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wesley J. Forehand Jr
• Original Assignee: Wesley J. Forehand Jr
• Inventors: Forehand, Wesley J. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US10/929,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20060085264A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/15
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants

Abstract

A restaurant receives orders from customers for a variety of different foods. Rather than preparing the foods itself, the restaurant relies of a series of specialty type restaurants to provide the food. The food is prepared and individually packaged by the specialty restaurants. The food is collected from the specialty restaurants and the orders are filled by separating the various foods from the specialty restaurants and amalgamating the foods to correspond to the order. The food orders are delivered to the customers of the restaurant either when the customers appear at the counter or at the drive through window or by delivering the food order to the customer'"'"'s home or business. The restaurant building includes a dining room but no kitchen or kitchen facilities.

Claims

1. A restaurant providing a dining room and free of facilities to cook food and to dish out prepared bulk food.

2. The restaurant of claim 1 wherein the dining room provides a series of horizontal eating surfaces and a plurality of seats adjacent the horizontal eating surfaces.

3. The restaurant of claim 2 wherein the dining room provides eating utensils, condiments and napkins.

4. The restaurant of claim 1 wherein the dining room provides warmers for keeping hot food warm.

5. The restaurant of claim 1 wherein the dining room provides microwave ovens for reheating food.

6. The restaurant of claim 1 wherein the restaurant provides communication facilities for receiving food orders from customers.

7. The restaurant of claim 6 wherein the restaurant provides communication facilities for ordering food from other restaurants.

8. The restaurant of claim 1 wherein the restaurant is located on a highway and further comprising a billboard on the highway at least twenty minutes travel time from the restaurant, the billboard having the telephone number of the restaurant and a message urging customers to call and place an order for food.

9. A method of ordering and delivering food to customers comprising

receiving an order from a customer for a variety of different type foods;

sending orders to different restaurants that provide each of the different type foods;

collecting the different type foods from the different restaurants;

amalgamating the different type foods from the different restaurants to correspond to the order; and

delivering the order to the customer.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the orders received from the customer are received over a communication network.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the different type foods collected from the different restaurants are individually packaged.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein amalgamating step comprises separating the individually packaged foods from the different restaurants and reassembling the packaged foods to correspond to the customer'"'"'s order.