CN1838168A - Multilingual Intelligent Wireless Image Ordering System - Google Patents

Abstract

This invention relates to a multi-language intelligent wireless image dish ordering system. Wherein, integrating a language-selection functional module, a dishes-selection module and an order-dishes module into one PDA; after selecting language, letting consumer select dishes and then the exact dish to complete the order; sending the order by a wireless bridge to the management center server, the cashier server and a kitchen display print device then a background management module with a menu receive module, a menu management module, a cash management module and a database management module. This invention shows various dishes by pictures for different consumers, and has wide adjustability.

Description

Multilingual Intelligent Wireless Image Ordering System

technical field

The invention relates to a system in the field of computer application technology, in particular to a multilingual intelligent wireless image ordering system.

Background technique

At present, the operation and management mode of most catering enterprises basically follows the traditional method, that is, relying on manual processing of customer inquiries, waiters to place orders, and sending the handwritten stubs of the ordered menus to the kitchen; all units in the kitchen make menus according to the menus written by the waiters Dishes, and finally the food runners and waiters deliver the completed dishes to customers. However, with the increasing scale of restaurants and the increasing flow of customers, this traditional mode of operation has been challenged in recent years, and the competition in this traditional industry has become increasingly fierce. Therefore, how to use modern information technology to improve the operational efficiency of catering enterprises, reduce operating costs, improve customer satisfaction and loyalty, and gain competitive advantages and sustainable development in the fierce market competition is what every catering enterprise must consider question. Therefore, it is of great significance to develop a new type of wireless catering ordering system that takes customers as the main body.

After searching the prior art documents, it is found that the Chinese invention patent "handheld wireless ordering system" has the application number 02100184.7 and the publication number is 1434394A. The patent discloses that the handheld wireless ordering system includes: a handheld wireless vegetable ordering device, a communication base station, a network controller, a printer, a server computer, a working computer and corresponding management and control software, and the waiter can place the order on the handheld wireless vegetable ordering device. After ordering is completed on the Internet according to the customer's requirements, it is sent to the communication base station; after being processed by the server computer, the order is automatically classified and placed to the cold food room, kitchen, bar, service desk and other related departments. The wireless ordering system has the following limitations: (1) The ordering system is text-based and not intuitive; (2) The classification of the menu system is not clear, and customers have no way to start; (3) The special service features are not obvious; (4) There is no concept of healthy diet and special food service in the menu classification of this system; (5) The language of this system is single, and the customer adaptability is small.

Contents of the invention

The object of the present invention is to provide a multilingual intelligent wireless image ordering system for the above-mentioned deficiencies in the prior art. Various dishes are directly displayed in front of customers in the form of images, and different special dishes are provided for customers with different needs. At the same time, it can be applied to customers of different nationalities to meet the needs of continuous foreign exchanges.

The present invention is realized through the following technical solutions, and the present invention includes: an on-site intelligent ordering module, a wireless data transmission function module, and a background management function module. The on-site intelligent ordering module sends the ordering information to the background management function module through the wireless data transmission function module.

The on-site intelligent ordering module includes: a language selection function module, a cuisine selection function module and an order function module, and the above modules are concentrated in a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). After the customer completes the language selection through the language selection function module, he enters the cuisine selection function module to select the cuisine. After the cuisine is selected, he enters the order function module to complete the order.

Wherein, the language selection function module provides 38 languages including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Greek, and Arabic. Customers can choose the language of the corresponding country by clicking on different national flags.

Described cuisine selection function module, its cuisine selection has two modes: eight major cuisines selection modes and functional health care cuisines selection, eight major cuisines selection mode is to order according to Shandong, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui cuisines. Cuisine; Functional and health-care dishes to choose healthy eating patterns for customers with special requirements, including health-care dishes for high blood pressure, health-care dishes for hyperlipidemia, health-care dishes for heart disease, health-care dishes for diabetes, health-care dishes for endocrine diseases, and health-care dishes for gastrointestinal diseases.

In the described ordering function module, after the customer clicks on each dish, the corresponding schematic picture, price, nutritional characteristics and historical allusions will be displayed, and the dish is selected to be added to the order list. After ordering, the entire order list will appear, which lists all the information of the customer's order and the total number of items and prices. After the customer confirms, the order list is transmitted to the background management function module through the wireless data transmission function module.

The background management function module includes: a server menu receiving function module, a server menu management function module, a cashier management function module and a database management function module. The menu receiving function module receives the order list transmitted by the on-site intelligent order module through the wireless network. The menu management function module classifies and counts the customer's order list and calculates the consumption, and sends it to each corresponding kitchen printer to print the menu and make dishes, and sends it to the cashier for charging. The cash register management function module displays the icons of all tables in the restaurant: the tables that have been opened are displayed in red, the tables that have been reserved are displayed in green, and the tables that have not been opened are displayed in gray. Click the icon of each table, and the dining information of the corresponding table will be displayed. The cash register management function module receives the consumption list from the management service center, charges the customer, and then transmits the charging status to the management center server. The database management module contains all recipe information, discount information, inventory management, etc.

The wireless data transmission function module includes: a wireless network card and a wireless bridge. The wireless network card and the wireless bridge form a local area wireless network, and the intelligent ordering module sends the customer's order information in a wireless form through the wireless network card, and the menu is sent to the background management function module through the wireless network bridge. All components are connected wirelessly, which can facilitate system expansion.

The present invention can be applied to customers of different nationalities and languages, and can be applied to foreign-related restaurants; all kinds of dishes are rich in pictures and texts, which can make customers understand the characteristics of dishes intuitively; a variety of optional cuisines are introduced for customer groups with different tastes; There are a variety of optional health dishes; the wireless connection between the ordering systems can be easily expanded.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of hardware composition of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a flow chart of ordering dishes on the PDA client side.

Detailed ways

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the present invention includes: an on-site intelligent ordering module, a wireless data transmission function module, and a background management function module. The on-site intelligent ordering module sends the ordering information to the background management function module through the wireless data transmission function module.

The on-site intelligent ordering module includes: language selection function module, cuisine selection function module and order function module. The above-mentioned modules are concentrated in a PDA, and the PDA adopts HP iPAQ 1930 of Hewlett-Packard Company. The language selection function module works in the following way: customers click on different national flags to get the country’s language. For example, Japanese customers click on the sun flag to enter the Japanese order function. The language function module includes Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Greek, Arabic and other 38 languages. After completing the language selection, enter the cuisine selection function module. The cuisine selection function has two modes: the selection mode of eight major cuisines and the selection mode of functional health care cuisines. and other cuisines to order, such as; according to the functional health cuisine, select the healthy eating pattern for customers with special requirements, including hypertension health care cuisine, high blood fat health care cuisine, heart disease health care cuisine, diabetes health care cuisine, endocrine disease health care cuisine, gastrointestinal Disease health care dishes, if you choose hypertension health care dishes, you will provide dishes such as celery lily, shiitake mushrooms and Chinese cabbage. After the cuisine selection function is completed, enter the order function module. After the customer clicks on each dish, the corresponding schematic picture, recipe, price, nutritional characteristics and historical allusions will be displayed. Select the dish and add it to the order list. After ordering, the entire order list will appear. The order list lists all the information of the customer's order and the total number of items and prices. After the customer confirms, the order list will be sent to the background management function module by the wireless data transmission function module.

The background management function module includes: server menu receiving function module, server menu management function module, cashier management function module and database management function module. The menu receiving function module receives the order list transmitted by the on-site intelligent order module through the wireless network. The menu management function module classifies and counts the customer's order list, calculates consumption, and sends it to each corresponding kitchen printer to print the menu and make dishes, and sends it to the cashier for charging. The cash register management function module displays the icons of all tables in the restaurant: the tables that have been opened are displayed in red, the tables that have been reserved are displayed in green, and the tables that have not been opened are displayed in gray. Click the icon of each table, and the dining information of the corresponding table will be displayed. The cash register management function module receives the consumption list from the management service center, charges the customer, and then transmits the charging status to the management center server. The database management module contains all recipe information, discount information, inventory management, etc.

The wireless data transmission function module includes: a wireless network card, a wireless bridge, a management center server, and a cash register server. The wireless network card can be the Gurry 802.11B SD wireless network card of Gurry Company, and the wireless network bridge can be the NETGEAR WG602 wireless network bridge of the American Netgear Company. The cash register management function module forms a local wireless network through the wireless network card and the wireless network bridge. The intelligent ordering module sends the customer's order information wirelessly through the wireless network card, and sends it to the background management function module through the wireless network bridge. All components are connected wirelessly, which can facilitate system expansion.

The background management function module includes a server menu receiving function module, a server menu management function module, a cashier management function module and a database management function module. The menu receiving function module receives the order list transmitted by the PDA through the wireless network. The menu management function module classifies and counts the customer's order list, calculates consumption, and sends it to each corresponding kitchen printer to print the menu and make dishes, and sends it to the cashier for charging. The cash register management function module displays the icons of all tables in the restaurant: the tables that have been opened are displayed in red, the tables that have been reserved are displayed in green, and the tables that have not been opened are displayed in gray. Click the icon of each table, and the dining information of the corresponding table will be displayed. The cash register management function module receives the consumption list from the management service center, charges the customer, and then transmits the charging status to the management center server. The database management module contains all recipe information, discount information, inventory management, etc.

Claims (5)

1, a kind of multi-language intelligent wireless image dish ordering system, comprise: site intelligent order dishes module, wireless data transmission function module, back-stage management functional module, the site intelligent module of ordering dishes sends to the back-stage management functional module with dishes ordering information through the wireless data transmission function module, it is characterized in that:

The described site intelligent module of ordering dishes comprises: languages selection function module, style of cooking selection function module and the functional module of ordering dishes, the above module concentrates in the PDA, client finishes by languages selection function module and enters style of cooking selection function module after languages are selected, carrying out the style of cooking selects, enter the functional module of ordering dishes after the style of cooking chooses, finish and order dishes;

Described wireless data transmission function module comprises: wireless network card, wireless bridge, wireless network card and wireless bridge constitute local area wireless network, the intelligent menuing module is sent client's dishes ordering information by wireless network card with wireless, menu sends to the back-stage management functional module through wireless bridge;

Described back-stage management functional module comprises server menu receiving module, server menu management functional module, cash register management function module and database management function module, the menu receiving module receives the inventory of ordering dishes that PDA sends by wireless network, the menu management functional module is carried out statistic of classification, consumption calculating to client's the inventory of ordering dishes, and be sent to each corresponding kitchen printer and print menu and make dish, be sent to cashier and charge, cash register management function module demonstrates all tables' in dining room icon; The consumption inventory that cash register management function module receiving management service centre is transmitted after client's charge, passes the charge situation to management center server, and database management module comprises all menu information, information of discount, inventory management information.

2, multi-language intelligent wireless image dish ordering system according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described languages selection function module, comprise the country variant language, and select the language of corresponding country by clicking different national flags.

3, multi-language intelligent wireless image dish ordering system according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described style of cooking selection function module, comprise two kinds of patterns: the eight big cuisines preference pattern and the functional health style of cooking are selected, and the eight big cuisines preference pattern is ordered dishes by Shandong, river, Guangdong, Fujian, Soviet Union, Zhejiang, Hunan, the emblem style of cooking exactly; The functional health style of cooking is selected the health diet pattern at the specific (special) requirements client, includes the hypertension health care style of cooking, the high fat of blood health care style of cooking, the heart disease health care style of cooking, the diabetic health care style of cooking, the endocrine disease health care style of cooking, the gastrointestinal disease health care style of cooking.

4, multi-language intelligent wireless image dish ordering system according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: the described functional module of ordering dishes, after clicking every dish, demonstrate corresponding signal picture, price, nutritional characteristic and historical allusion, choose this dish to join in the inventory of ordering dishes, after having selected dish, the whole inventory of ordering dishes appears, order dishes and listed all information and item number altogether and price that client orders dishes in the inventory, after client confirmed, the inventory of ordering dishes can be sent to the wireless data transmission function module by wireless network.

5, multi-language intelligent wireless image dish ordering system according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described cash register management function module, demonstrate all tables' in dining room icon: the dining table of having begined a theatrical performance shows red, the dining table of having subscribed shows green, the dining table of also not begining a theatrical performance shows grey, click each tables's icon, corresponding tables' the information of having dinner will show.

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