Menu-order selection support system, data center and eating-house system

• US 20050171800A1
• Filed: 06/23/2004
• Published: 08/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Yuji
• Application Number:
  US10/873,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20050171800A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/811
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants

Abstract

The present invention relates to a menu-order selection support system for supporting a person in ordering an item by selecting and providing food and drink menus at an eating-house such as a restaurant and the like. The present invention allows a user to perform health management wherever the user takes a meal, even if the user takes a meal at multiple places. The present invention includes a data center for managing personal data including preference information indicating preference, harmful foodstuff information indicating a forbidden foodstuff, and health management information for managing intakes, for each user, and providing the information in response to an access, and an eating-house systems for receiving customer'"'"'s personal data from the data center and providing the customer with a menu that matches the customer'"'"'s personal data, where the eating-house system is connected to the data center via a communication line.

Claims

1. A menu-order selection support system comprising:

a data center that manages personal data including preference information indicating preference, harmful foodstuff information indicating a forbidden foodstuff, health management information for managing intakes, for each user, and provides the information in response to an access; and

an eating-house system that is connected to the data center via a communication line and provides, upon receiving personal data of a customer from the data center, the customer with a menu that matches the personal data of the customer.

2. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 1,

wherein the data center manages eating-house data including menu information that indicates ingredients and their contents in an item for each item on a menu at each eating-house along with the personal data, and

wherein the eating-house system provides, upon receiving personal data of a customer and eating-house data of its own from the data center, a menu that matches both the eating-house data of its own and the personal data of the customer.

3. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 1, wherein the eating-house system manages eating-house data of its own including menu information indicating ingredients and their contents in an item for each item on a menu and provides, upon receiving personal data of a customer from the data center, a menu that matches both the eating-house data of its own and the personal data of the customer.

4. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 1, wherein the eating-house system includes:

group recognition means for recognizing that a plurality of customers belong to the same group; and

warning means for warning, when a customer of a plurality of customers in a group orders an item containing a foodstuff harmful to a customer of the plurality of customers in the same group, that the harmful foodstuff is contained in the item.

5. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 2,

wherein the menu information includes optional information indicating a substitute for an ingredient of an item on a menu and a content of the substitute in the item, and

wherein the eating-house system provides a menu that matches personal data of a customer and is selected from the menu information including the optional information.

6. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 3,

wherein the menu information includes optional information indicating a substitute for an ingredient of an item on a menu and a content of the substitute in the item, and

wherein the eating-house system provides a menu that matches personal data of a customer and is selected from the menu information including the optional information.

7. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 1,

wherein the health management information includes information on an allowable intake and a previous intake for each of a plurality of durations with different time lengths, and

wherein the eating-house system provides a customer with an allowable intake for the customer'"'"'s current meal calculated from the customer'"'"'s previous intake and the allowable intake for the plurality of durations.

8. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 1, further comprising, in addition to the data center and the eating-house system, a terminal that records personal data in and/or uses personal data from the data center.

9. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 1, wherein the eating-house system comprises:

input means for inputting a customer'"'"'s intake at the eating-house; and

feedback means for sending the intake input from the input means to the data center to update the customer'"'"'s health management information.

10. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 1, wherein the eating-house system comprises:

input means for inputting a customer'"'"'s evaluation of a current meal at the eating-house; and

feedback means for sending the input evaluation to the data center to update the customer'"'"'s preference information.

11. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 1, wherein the eating-house system comprises:

visit information including preference information of the eating-house'"'"'s customer in addition to the menu information;

input means for inputting a customer'"'"'s evaluation of a current meal at the eating-house; and

feedback means for sending the input evaluation to the data center to update the customer'"'"'s preference information and the visit information to the eating-house.

12. The menu-order selection support system according to claim 11, wherein the eating-house system comprises customer retrieval means for retrieving a target customer of the eating-house'"'"'s advertisement on the basis of the visit information as to the eating-house.

13. A data center comprising:

data management means for managing personal data including preference information indicating preference, harmful foodstuff information indicating a forbidden foodstuff, and health management information for managing intakes, for each user; and

data providing means for providing customer'"'"'s personal data in response to an access via a communication line from an eating-house system that provides a menu to a customer.

14. An eating-house system comprising:

data obtaining means for obtaining personal data of a customer from a data center by accessing the data center via a communication line, the data center managing personal data including preference information indicating preference, harmful foodstuff information indicating a forbidden foodstuff, and health management information for managing intakes, for each user; and

menu providing means for providing the customer with a menu that matches the personal data of the customer.