CN1123430A - Automatic processing system for menus - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to an automatic processing system of menu, belonging to the menu automatic processing system of diet industry, which solves the problem of diet industry menu automatic input and output, and prevents error and cheat. Compared with manual input, the invention improves the working efficiency by 5-10 times, can reflect the desire and the requirement of diners by menus, can eliminate the interference of human factors and the loophole of blocking management, and is widely used for menu automatic processing in various food industries and related industries.

Description

Automatic processing system for menus

The invention belongs to an automatic menu processing system in the catering industry.

At present, some restaurants in my country's catering industry use ordinary computers or traditional cash registers to enter the menu by manually typing on the keyboard, and then process the menu through the computer. This method, the input speed is slow, the work efficiency is low, can not realize the entry and the output of the menu at the same time, can not rely on the menu to express the subjective wishes and requirements of the diners, bring a lot of inconvenience to the diners, and manual input menu It is easy to lose or enter the wrong menu content, and it may also cause fraud. As a result, the management of the restaurant cannot verify, supervise, and cause losses to the operation of the restaurant because there is no original certificate of the diner, resulting in loopholes in management.

The present invention aims at the deficiency of above-mentioned prior art, provides a kind of automatic processing system of menu, this processing system can automatically input menu, output menu at the same time, input speed is fast, can reflect diner's subjective wish and requirement through this processing system, eliminate The interference of human factors prevents cheating and plugs management loopholes.

In order to realize the above-mentioned invention object, the technical solution of the present invention: by designing and printing the entry menu, to reflect the diner's subjective wishes, requirements and the management content of the restaurant manager, by using the "graphic and text automatic input" developed by the inventor himself "output device" to realize the automatic input of the contents of each information column of the menu, so that the menu graphics in the computer become binary graphics, and use the bill recognition and analysis software to divide and identify the menus input into the computer and form the menu in the computer. Digital menu array; use the same computer and "graphic and text automatic and input and output device" to analyze and compare the ordering, input menu, and numerical menu array content in the recipe to form a print file and output menu.

The design and printing of the menu is completed according to the following steps: First, understand the maximum amount of information that users need to reflect in the menu and the specific requirements for menu design, and establish a plane Cartesian coordinate system with the row and column positioning marks as the coordinate axes. In this coordinate system, the centers of all row locators shall be on the row locator axes, and the centers of all column locators shall be on the column locator axes. The distance between the row and row positioning marks and the column and column positioning marks should be determined before establishing the coordinate system. Then set up the menu information column in this coordinate system, determine the rows and columns in an information column that the center of the positioning mark on the row and column positioning mark axis in each information column can be used for filling the number of figures and the number of figures in each figure. The position codes of the same information column are preferably the same type of code, and the position codes of different information columns can be different types of codes. The type of code is determined by the specific content and requirements in each information column. This code can be any one of single or combined Arabic numerals, single or combined foreign letters, and symbols. Graphics can be circular or square or any other graphics. It is required that the center of the graphics of the same row or the same column of all information columns and the center of the column or row positioning mark on the coordinate axis of the corresponding positioning mark be on the same straight line. The graphic line spacing and graphic column spacing are determined by the distance between the row positioning mark and the adjacent row positioning mark and the distance between the column positioning mark and the adjacent column positioning mark. For the dish number information column with a large amount of menu information, such as the dish number column: the row graphics in this column and the code in the row graphics represent a dish name, and the number of dish names is determined by the number of row graphics in the information column and its graphics. The number of codes inside is determined, that is, as many lines as there are corresponding dish names. In the first column on the right of the information bar, in each figure, from the second column on the right to the tenth column on the left, fill in a number in each figure from 1-9 in each row, and leave it blank to represent "0". The method of the content of the information bar can reduce a lot of codes and is intuitive. It is a better arrangement method for the current computer to process the menu bar with a large amount of information. In order to increase the input speed and output the content of the menu while inputting the menu, the inventor of the present invention used the self-developed "graphic and text automatic input and output device" for the automatic processing of the menu for the first time, so as to realize the conversion of menu graphics and text Convert the electrical signal into a digital signal for computer processing, and convert all the information columns of the menu into binary graphics. In the conversion process, the menu input into the computer is divided and recognized by using recognition and analysis software. The specific steps are: find out the menu graphics through the computer, remove the frame, find out the row and column positioning marks in the above coordinate system respectively, separate the corresponding filling area from the row and column positioning marks, and calculate the filling width, Height and area, according to the calculated filling height, width and area, determine whether the filling information has filling information according to the filling threshold value, if yes, mark "1" at the corresponding position, if not, mark "0" at A digitized array of all the information fields of the menu formed in the computer. According to the ordered dish name and its code in the recipe, input the menu, digital menu array, correspondingly analyze the entire menu content, and form a print file.

The present invention changes manual keying input menus into automatic input menus, which can improve work efficiency by 5-10 times, save time, reduce labor intensity, improve working conditions, and can automatically input and output menus at the same time, and the diners who can be reflected by the processing system It brings convenience to diners, eliminates the interference of human factors, and is not easy to make mistakes, prevents cheating, and plugs management loopholes.

Fig. 1 is a process flow diagram of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the corresponding relationship between the recipe name and its code, the selected automatic entry menu, the digital menu array in the computer, and the automatic processing of the output checkout menu.

Figure 3 is the menu map of the "exquisite Sichuan cold dishes" of "Peace Hotel".

Fig. 4 is the automatic input menu diagram of Fig. 3 .

Fig. 5 is a digitized array diagram of the menu input in the computer in Fig. 4 .

Fig. 6 is an output checkout menu diagram corresponding to Fig. 3 to Fig. 5 .

Figure 7 is a picture of "Jinjiangchun Restaurant Chinese fast food order".

Fig. 8 is a digitized array diagram of the menu input in the computer in Fig. 7 .

Fig. 9 is an output checkout menu diagram corresponding to Fig. 7 and Fig. 8 .

Figure 10 is a picture of "Peace Hotel Dishes".

Fig. 11 is a digitized array diagram of the menu input in the computer in Fig. 10 .

FIG. 12 is an output checkout menu diagram corresponding to FIG. 10 and FIG. 11 .

Describe in detail below in conjunction with accompanying drawing:

Example 1

Present embodiment is constituted by Fig. 1 to Fig. 6.

In Fig. 1, the selection is controlled by a computer, and the selection includes automatic input processing menu, return menu, query recipe, menu, return order, change dish name, menu, print, check and deposit, checkout, collection, and statistics. data. Before entering the menu, design and print the menu according to the menu information provided by the user and the requirements for the menu. Fill in the menu according to the name of the selected dish. Automatically scan and input the filled menu into the computer (that is, the ticket reading machine reads the ticket, reads the dish name code, price, table number, waiter number and discount coefficient, etc.), finds the menu graphic through the computer, removes the menu graphic frame, and finds out the row , column positioning marks, separate the corresponding filling area from the row and column positioning marks, calculate the width, height and area of each filling area, and use the computer to check each filling area in the menu according to the threshold range of 2-5mm Make a judgment, and if it meets the threshold range, it means that it has been filled and marked as "1", and if it is not filled, it is marked as "0", and then a numerical menu array is formed in the computer, and the contents of the menu are analyzed according to the calculation results, and the menu is calculated. The total amount of the name of the dishes eaten in the menu, the input menu, the digital array of the input menu in the computer, the output menu, the corresponding identification of the recipe, and the print display menu. The above-mentioned automatic processing method for menus is not only applicable to the automatic processing of "Peace Hotel menu (Chinese food)", "Jinjiangchun Restaurant Chinese fast food" and "Peace Hotel refreshments", but also applicable to other hotels, restaurants and catering industries Automatic handling of menus. Returning the menu includes inputting the code of the dish name to be returned (for the dish name with the dish name code) and returning the whole meal; querying includes recipes, menus, and order return queries, wherein recipe querying includes querying Chinese-style meals, querying Western-style meals, querying dish names, The code of the dish name; the menu query includes querying by the menu number and the sales situation of a certain dish by the table number; the purpose of the chargeback query is to understand the specific situation of the chargeback; modifying the menu includes adding and deleting various dish names, modifying the signer database, Modify the password library and modify the exchange rate; statistics include cashier shift settlement, each meal business settlement, daily report printing; termination includes closing all databases and exiting the system.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the automatic processing process of "Peace Hotel Menu (Western-style meal)", which corresponds to Fig. 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 5 and Fig. 6.

The left side of Figure 3 is the "exquisite Sichuan cold dish" prepared by the Peace Hotel. There are 24 kinds of cold dishes in this recipe. The left side is the dish name code, the middle is the dish name corresponding to the dish name code, and the right side is the dish name. price.

Figure 4 is the a la carte menu designed and printed for the "Peace Hotel" Chinese restaurant. The point menu is designed as follows: determine the coordinate origin of the row and column positioning mark axes in the lower left corner of the menu, and establish a plane Cartesian coordinate system with the row and column positioning mark axes, and the row and column positioning marks on each axis are determined by the coordinates The amount of information in each information column in the department is determined, and the information columns can be separated by lines. The upper part of the point menu is the dish number column, the number of copies column, invalid, free of charge, currency column, and the lower part is the table number, waiter, discount head column, and the adjacent column of invalid free of charge, currency, and waiter is the dish name column. Adjacent to the dish name column is the price column, the upper middle of the upper part is the name of the order menu, and the right side is the person who handles it. There are 15 equidistant horizontal rows and 9 vertical rows of equidistant circles with a diameter of 3mm in the dish number column. From the second circle on the right side of each horizontal row to the ninth circle on the left side, the same size circles are printed sequentially. 1 to 9 numbers, one number is printed in each circle, and the numbers in each vertical circle should be the same. Adjacent to the column of dish number is the column of menu copies. The number of copies includes catty and two. The rows correspond to the horizontal rows of the vegetable numbers, and each horizontal row has 7 equidistant garden circles. The size of each garden circle is the same as that of the vegetable number column. In each horizontal row from right to left, the circles are printed with 1, 2, 4, 8, 1, 2, 4; Invalid, exempt, currency columns, invalid, exempt, and currency are each in a vertical row, and the positions of the horizontal circles are arranged horizontally with the dish number and number of copies Corresponding to the position of the garden circle, the column of dish name and price can be filled in or not filled in respectively. In the column of dish number column, number of copies column, invalid, free of charge, currency column, in the lower row and column positioning mark coordinate axis, the table number, waiter, and discount head column are set. Among them, the station number on the left side of the column is set with two horizontal rows of circles of the same size. In the two rows of circles, numbers from 1 to 9 are printed in sequence from left to right, and a number is printed on each circle respectively. The discount head is located below the position of the table number on the left side of the column, and is aligned with the "table number". A horizontal row of 6 circles is set, and 1 to 6 are printed in sequence. The columns of the table number and the discount number are aligned with the dish number Each column corresponds, and the center of each column is located on the same center line; the waiter located on the right side of the column has set up two horizontal rows of garden circles corresponding to the station number on the left, and each column is respectively related to the number of copies column, invalid, free, currency The corresponding columns of column are arranged, and in every row of circles, numbers 1 to 9 are printed in turn from left to right, and only one number is printed in each garden. The centerlines of each row circle in the menu are all parallel to the row mark axis, and the centerlines of each column circle are all parallel to the column mark axis. On the coordinate axis of the row and column marks, except for the dividing line of each column, the row and column marks on the row and column mark axes are all squares. On the row mark axis, the distance between the square and the center of the square represents the corresponding column circle The center distance between the circle and the column circle, on the row mark axis, the center distance between the row mark and the row mark of each column circle is 5MM, on the column mark axis, the column opposite to the row circle The distance between the logo and the column mark is 5MM, and the diameter of each circle in the coordinate system is 3MM. For example, when a diner goes to the "Peace Hotel" to eat Chinese food, he ordered husband and wife lung slices, five-spice stewed large intestine, five-spice stewed pig's feet, tangerine peel frog, scallion oil Zhepi, scallion oil pork belly in the menu of "exquisite Sichuan cold dishes" , the codes of these dishes are 82, 83, 84, 85, 810, and 820 in turn, and the No. 8 and No. 2 circles are painted on the first row of the dish number column of "Peace Hotel Order Menu (Chinese Cuisine)", Paint circle No. 1 in the middle in the first row in the number of copies column; paint circles No. 8 and No. 3 in the second row, and paint circle No. 1 in the middle in the second row in the number of copies column ;Paint circles No. 8 and No. 4 in the third horizontal row, circle No. 1 in the middle in the third horizontal row in the number of copies column, and paint No. 8 and No. 5 gardens in the fourth horizontal row Circle, fill in circle No. 1 in the fourth horizontal row in the number of copies column, paint circles No. 8, 1, and 0 in the fifth horizontal row, and paint circle No. 1 in the fifth horizontal row in the number of copies column , No. 8, No. 2, and No. 0 garden circles are painted in the sixth horizontal row, and No. 3 garden circles are all painted in the first and second horizontal rows of waiters. In the sixth horizontal row in the number of copies column, paint the No. 1 circle in the middle. In the header column of station number, waiter, and discount, the first horizontal row of the station number is painted with the No. 1 circle, and the second horizontal row is painted with the No. 4 circle. After the diners order, the menu becomes the order menu in Figure 4 . Input the menu into the "graphic and text automatic input and output device", and through the computer, the input menu's dish number column, number of copies column, station number, waiter, and discount head column are converted into binary graphics. The single recognition software divides and recognizes the menu input into the computer, and forms a digital menu array of all information columns of the menu in the computer, as shown in Figure 5. According to the ordered dishes and their codes in the "Exquisite Sichuan Cold Dishes" recipe, the menus have been filled, and the digital menu array is used for corresponding analysis to form a checkout menu. Figure 6

Example 2

Figure 7, Figure 8, and Figure 9 show the automatic processing diagrams of "Jin Jiang Chun Restaurant Chinese fast food order". Its processing method is basically the same as embodiment 1, and the row and column mark coordinate system is also the same as embodiment 1, but the difference is the design of the Chinese fast food order of this restaurant. In the upper part of the row and column mark coordinate system, the diet name column, the number of servings column, and the price column are successively established from left to right. The diet name column is printed from top to bottom in Chinese, and the number of servings column is arranged horizontally by 9. Ten vertical rows of empty garden circles are formed, and the distance between rows and columns and between columns is 5MM. The price column corresponds to the food name and the number of servings from top to bottom. The lower part is the table number, discount head, and waiter column. On the left side, the table number, discount head, and waiter are printed from top to bottom. On the right side of the column, there are two horizontal rows for the station number, among which there are 9 circles in the first horizontal row, each circle is printed with a number, 1 to 9 are printed in sequence from left to right, and 10 circles are printed in the second horizontal row , except the first circle on the right is empty, the rest are printed with 1 to 9 from left to right. There are 6 circles in a row from left to right on the discount head, and a number is printed in each circle, and 1 is printed in turn. To 6, the waiter has set up two horizontal rows of garden circles. The two circles in the 1st column on the left are empty circles, from the 2nd column to the 9th column on the left, each horizontal row is printed with 1 to 9 from left to right, and a number is printed in each garden. The center line of each row of garden circles in this column is the same center line as the center line of corresponding each row of garden circles in the number of copies column. A diner selects the name of the food and the number of servings according to the name of the food given by the restaurant in the column of the name of the food and drink, and draws circles horizontally in the column corresponding to the number of servings of the name of the food and drink. One circle represents one serving of food. , the diner selected three bowls of northern dumplings in the column of food name, painted the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th circles from left to right in the first horizontal row of the column of number of northern dumplings, and at the same time selected 1 in the column of food name Long Xiaolongbao, 3 bowls of Ling Tang Yuan, 3 bowls of Dandan Noodles, and 1 dozen of Mandarin Duck Mantou, respectively, in the second, third, fourth, and sixth horizontal circles in the column of the number of servings corresponding to the name of the food and drink from the left Paint the 3rd circle to the right, paint the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd circles, paint the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd circles, and paint the 2nd circle. The first horizontal circle of the station number is painted with the second circle from left to right, the second horizontal circle is painted with the seventh circle from left to right, and the first horizontal circle of the waiter is painted from left to right. Paint the 5th garden circle to the right, and paint the 7th garden circle from left to right on its second horizontal line. After the above-mentioned processing, it becomes the Chinese fast food list after ordering of diners, as shown in Figure 7. The fast food list is entered with the "graphic and text automatic output and input device", and after computer processing, it becomes a digital menu array in the computer composed of "0" and "1" as shown in Figure 8. "1" in the figure Indicates that the garden circle has been painted, that is, the number of portions eaten by the diner, the table number, and the waiter number, and "0" indicates that the circle has not been painted, that is, the diner has not eaten.

Example 3

This embodiment is composed of Fig. 10, Fig. 11, Fig. 12, its automatic processing method, the establishment of row and column mark coordinate system are the same as embodiment 1. The difference lies in the design of the menu within this coordinate system. Taking "Peace Hotel Cuisine" as an example, small dots, middle dots, large dots, features, vertices, tea mustards are set on the left side of the row and column coordinate system from top to bottom, and circles are set on their respective right sides , where small, medium, large, and special features are each provided with two rows of garden circles, the row spacing and column spacing are 5MM, and each horizontal row has 17 garden circles, among which the vertices and tea mustards are each provided with a horizontal row of garden circles, and each horizontal row There are 17 circles corresponding to small, medium, large and characteristic. On the right side of the apex column, there is "Hong Kong dollar" and an empty circle behind it. On the right side of the tea mustard, "free" is set, followed by an empty circle lock up. The column number, waiter, discount head, and Hong Kong dollar column are set under the tea mustard column. The station number and discount head are set from top to bottom on the left side of the column, and two horizontal circles are set on the right side of the station number. From left to right 1 to 9 are all printed, each circle is printed with a number, a horizontal row of 6 circles is set on the discount head, 1 to 6 are printed inside the circle, each circle has a number, the right side of the column is set with the waiter and the following There are two rows of circles, each horizontal row has 9 circles, 1 to 9 are printed from left to right, and there is a number in each circle. Hong Kong dollar and a circle behind it are set under the waiter. The circled position should correspond to the circled position of the tea mustard above the column.

Claims (4)

1. An automatic menu processing system, including designing and printing the menu, filling the menu according to the selected dish name, computer control operation selection program, designing and printing the menu includes establishing the following according to the menu information provided by the user and the requirements for the menu The square is a plane Cartesian coordinate system with row and column marking coordinate axes. The computer control operation selection program includes inputting and processing menus, returning menus, querying recipes, menus, returning menus, changing dish names, menus, printing diners, checking deposits, checking out and collecting payments. , Statistical various data, it is characterized in that: (1) Establish each information column of the menu in the plane Cartesian coordinate system with the coordinate axis marked by row and column; (2) Determining the row and column positioning mark center on the axis of the row and column positioning marks for each row and column in each information column, the number of graphics available for filling and the position coding type in each graphic, the same information column The position coding is preferably the same type of coding. The number of graphics available for filling in each row and column is consistent with the number of positioning marks in the plane coordinates of the corresponding row and column positioning marks. The center of the row or column positioning mark on the coordinate axis of the mark should be on the same straight line. distance decision; (3) For the first time, the "graphic and text automatic input and output device" developed by the inventor is used to automatically perform photoelectric scanning on the filled menu, and the graphic and text in the menu are automatically converted into corresponding electrical signals; the electrical signals are sent into the system A signal processor, which converts the electrical signal into a digital signal for computer processing and then sends it to the computer, so that all the information columns of the menu are converted into binary graphics; (4) Segment and identify the menu input into the computer by using bill identification and analysis software and prescribed thresholds and areas to form a digital menu array in the computer; (5) Make the ordered menu and its code number through the computer, input the menu, and the digitized menu array in the computer carries out corresponding comparative analysis to form a print file. 2. The automatic menu processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that: the menu information column with a large amount of information in the menu is arranged on the left side of the menu, and the vacancy in the first column of graphics on the right is from the second column on the right to In the 10th column on the left, code a number from 1 to 9 in each row in order, so that a line of the dish number and its code represent a dish name. The number of rows in this column should be consistent with the number of dish names, and From left to right, the number column is the number of servings column, invalid, currency column, dish name column, and price column. Below the dish number column, serving number column, invalid, free, and currency columns are the station number, waiter, and discount Header, Hong Kong dollar column. 3. The automatic menu processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that: in the Chinese fast food order menu, the name of the dish is directly printed in the food and drink column, and the diner provides the name of the food and drink in the food and drink name according to the menu. The number of servings column is directly filled with graphics to determine the number of servings. 4. According to claim, the automatic processing system of the menu is characterized in that: in the refreshment menu, from top to bottom on the left side are small, medium, large and special vertices, and the corresponding left side is the number of servings. Empty garden.

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