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Restaurant management system

  • US 5,839,115 A
  • Filed: 02/11/1997
  • Issued: 11/17/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A restaurant management system, comprising:

  • an order system for receiving an order from a customer and generated thereby to define desired ones of restaurant items for supply to the customer, each of said restaurant items having a unique preparation time associated therewith and each of said orders defining a predetermined number of desired ones of said restaurant items for delivery to the ordering one of the customers;

    a supply system for supplying said desired restaurant items to the one of the customers generating said order;

    said order system operable to generate said orders, each with delivery time information associated with each of said associated desired restaurant items to define the relative time of delivery of each of said desired restaurant items relative to a given order to the ordering one of the customers;

    a supply control system for controlling the time that said supply system initiates preparation of said desired items and the subsequent supply of the prepared items to each of the customers associated with a given one of said orders and in accordance with both said delivery time information associated with each of said given one of said orders and said preparation time for the associated restaurant items, wherein said supply control system determines the supply time; and

    a monitoring system for monitoring said order system and said supply system to ensure that said order system and said supply system are operating correctly and said supply system is supplying the desired items in accordance with orders received by said order system and the time information associated therewith, and for providing an alarm which indicates when said order system and said supply system are not operating correctly.

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