RESTAURANT SERVICE AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20130097038A1
• Filed: 04/08/2011
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Compurants Ltd. (Potter Ventures Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Compurants Ltd. (Potter Ventures Ltd.)
• Inventors: Potter, Daniel, Hunwick, Noel, Wentworth-Shaw, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US13/639,982
• Publication Number:
  US 20130097038A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/21
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/384 using social networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants

Abstract

The field of the invention relates to management systems including a hub, a set of clients, and a point of sale system, the management system operable to be controlled by management tool software. There is provided a management system, comprising a hub, a set of clients, and a point of sale system, the management system operable to be controlled by management tool software wherein the management tool software provides a user interface. The management system may be used as a table management system in restaurants.

Claims

1. A management system, comprising a hub, a set of clients, and a point of sale system, the management system operable to be controlled by management tool software wherein the management tool software provides a user interface.

2. The management system of claim 1, wherein the management tool software is running on a computer terminal connected to the hub.

3. The management system of claim 1, wherein the management tool software is running on the hub.

4. The management system of claim 1, wherein the hub comprises an ordering process.

5. The management system of claim 4, wherein the ordering process is associated with a client.

6. The management system of claim 1, wherein the hub comprises a web service.

7. The management system of claim 6, wherein the web service is associated with a client.

8. The management system of claim 1, wherein the hub comprises an EPOS Abstraction.

9. The management system of claim 8, wherein the EPOS Abstraction is associated with a client.

10. The management system of claim 1, wherein the point of sale system is selectable from a set of point of sale systems using the management tool software.

11. The management system of claim 1, wherein the hub is connected to an EPOS.

12. The management system of claim 1, wherein the hub is operable to provide one or more of:

an interactive food and/or drink ordering interface, a computer game, a computer software application, a movie, a playstation running game, or a Nintendo Wii playing game.

13. The management system of claim 1, wherein the hub is operable to provide one or more of a plurality of client-facing software applications.

14. The management system of claim 1, wherein the management tool software is operable to change a client facing interface in real time.

15. The management system of claim 1, wherein the management tool software requires a username and password, so that only designated staff can operate the management tool software.

16. The management system of claim 1, operable to receive input from a plurality of input technologies.

17. The management system of claim 1, operable to receive input from a games remote control.

18. The management system of claim 1, wherein the management system is a table management system including tables.

19. The table management system of claim 18, wherein each table is operable to run a client from the set of clients.

20. The table management system of claim 18, wherein the management tool software is operable to select a particular client from the set of clients to run on a particular table.

21. The table management system of claim 18, wherein the hub is an E-Table hub.

22. The table management system of claim 18, wherein the management tool software is operable to change a client facing interface at a table.

23. The table management system of claim 18, wherein a receiver associated with a given table is operable to receive input from a plurality of input technologies.

24. The table management system of claim 18, wherein a receiver associated with a given table is operable to receive input from a games remote control.

25. The table management system of claim 18, wherein a given table provides an interactive food and/or drink ordering system comprising a computer controlled projector apparatus and a horizontal surface, wherein images from the computer controlled projector apparatus are projected onto some or all of the surface, the images including a menu of food and/or drink selection options, the selection options being selectable by a user operating an interface device operable to provide input to the computer.

26. Use of a management system of claim 1 in a stadium, a hotel room, a conference centre, an airport, a nightclub, a train, an aeroplane, or an e-learning centre.