Food and drink serving system for eating and drinking place

• US 20020002493A1
• Filed: 05/30/2001
• Published: 01/03/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KURA Limited
• Original Assignee: KURA Limited
• Inventors: Tanaka, Kunihiko
• Granted Patent: US 6,853,976 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/15
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0225 Avoiding frauds
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/00 Cash registers alarm indicators G07G3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/14 Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit data transmission in general H04L; telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station H04Q9/00

Abstract

A food and drink serving system for an eating and drinking place includes reading units, arranged in customers'"'"' tables, respectively, for reading order identifying information of meal tickets of customers, transmitting means for transmitting cooking information including the order identifying information read by the reading unit and a seat number identifying information on the table in which the reading unit is arranged, and cooking information informing means for informing at least either of a cook and a cooking director of at least the order identifying information and the seat number identifying information of the cooking information transmitted by the transmitting means.

Claims

1. A food and drink serving system for an eating and drinking place comprising:

reading units, arranged in customers'"'"' tables, respectively, for reading order identifying information of meal tickets of customers,

transmitting means for transmitting cooking information including the order identifying information read by the respective reading unit and a seat number identifying information on the table in which the reading unit is arranged, and

cooking information informing means for informing at least either of a cook and a cooking director of at least the order identifying information and the seat number identifying information of the cooking information transmitted by the transmitting means.

2. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 1, comprising a food and drink carrier container and identifying information imparting means for imparting the seat number identifying information to the food and drink carrier container.

4. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 2, comprising an automatic conveying means for putting the cooked food thereon and conveying it from a cooking place to the seat associated with the seat number identifying information.

6. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 4, wherein the automatic conveying means comprises a guide means for announcing an arrival of the food and drink to the customer when the food is arrived at the seat associated with the seat number identifying information.

8. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 1, comprising an automatic meal ticket dispenser and a transmitting means for transmitting the order identifying information of the meal ticket the customer purchased from the automatic meal ticket dispenser to the cooking information informing means.

9. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 2, comprising an automatic meal ticket dispenser and transmitting means for transmitting the order identifying information of the meal ticket the customer purchased from the automatic meal ticket dispenser to the cooking information informing means.

11. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 4, comprising an automatic meal ticket dispenser and transmitting means for transmitting the order identifying information of the meal ticket the customer purchased from the automatic meal ticket dispenser to the cooking information informing means.

13. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 6, comprising an automatic meal ticket dispenser and transmitting means for transmitting the order identifying information of the meal ticket the customer purchased from the automatic meal ticket dispenser to the cooking information informing means.

3. A food and drink serving system for an eating and drinking place comprising:

reading units, arranged in customers'"'"' tables, respectively, for reading order identifying information of meal tickets of customers,

transmitting means for transmitting cooking information including the order identifying information read by the reading unit and a seat number identifying information on the table in which the reading unit is arranged,

an automatic cooking unit for automatically cooking an ordered food and drink in accordance with the order identifying information of the cooking information transmitted by the transmitting means, and

a seat number identifying information imparting means for imparting the seat number identifying information to an automatically-cooked-food-and-drink carrier container in accordance with the seat number identifying information of the cooking information transmitted by the transmitting means.

5. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 3, comprising an automatic conveying means for putting the cooked food thereon and conveying it from a cooking place to the seat associated with the seat number identifying information.

7. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 5, wherein the automatic conveying means comprises a guide means for announcing an arrival of the food and drink to the customer when the food is arrived at the seat associated with the seat number identifying information.

10. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 3, comprising an automatic meal ticket dispenser and transmitting means for transmitting the order identifying information of the meal ticket the customer purchased from the automatic meal ticket dispenser to one of the cooking information informing means and the automatic cooking unit.

12. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 5, comprising an automatic meal ticket dispenser and transmitting means for transmitting the order identifying information of the meal ticket the customer purchased from the automatic meal ticket dispenser to one of the cooking information informing means and the automatic cooking unit.

14. The food and drink serving system for the eating and drinking place according to claim 7, comprising an automatic meal ticket dispenser and transmitting means for transmitting the order identifying information of the meal ticket the customer purchased from the automatic meal ticket dispenser to one of the cooking information informing means and the automatic cooking unit.