CN112862550A

CN112862550A - Intelligent catering meal taking method

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Publication number: CN112862550A
Application number: CN201911100356.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈梓平; 陈孟彬; 林剑荣
Original assignee: Guangdong Interkitchen Information Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Interkitchen Information Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2019-11-12
Filing date: 2019-11-12
Publication date: 2021-05-28

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides an intelligent catering food taking method. The method comprises the following steps: generating a corresponding ordering order according to an ordering instruction of a user; collecting the order form and determining dishes to be cooked; intelligently determining the cooking position of each dish to be cooked and the cooking procedure of the intelligent cooking terminal according to the cooking requirement of the dish to be cooked; after the dish to be cooked is placed in the intelligent cooking terminal, starting the intelligent cooking terminal to perform a corresponding cooking procedure, and cooking the dish to be cooked to obtain a corresponding dish; reading a food ordering order of a user when taking a food; obtaining meal taking information corresponding to the meal ordering order according to the meal ordering order of the user; and providing dishes corresponding to the meal taking information for the user. The ordering information of the user can be quickly obtained by reading the ordering order information, and the dish distribution efficiency is effectively improved.

Description

Intelligent catering meal taking method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of catering business models, in particular to a method for taking a meal in intelligent catering.

Background

With the continuous progress of social and economic life, the life rhythm and the pressure of modern people are increased more and more. Especially those white-collar workers or brainworkers working in the big cities, which go in and out of high-grade office buildings in daily work, have very fast work rhythm and are out of the way to many aspects of life.

For the part of people, meals in daily work are very headache and difficult to solve, and users always expect to have quick and convenient catering services, solve the problem of meals in the morning, the evening and the night as soon as possible and reduce the time consumption of the users in the aspect.

Thus, many different forms of meal delivery services have been derived. Most of these meal delivery services rely on web platforms. The user can make online subscriptions and payments from the network platform and enjoy the home-dispatched services.

However, such a meal delivery service still has many defects and shortcomings, which seriously affect the user experience. For example, due to the absence of a physical store, the catering quality of a food delivery service is difficult to guarantee, and even food safety issues may arise. In addition, the time for selecting food delivery by the user is concentrated, the number of food delivery personnel is limited, the concentrated food delivery requirements of a large number of users are difficult to meet, the problems of food delivery delay and the like are very easy to cause, and the user cannot eat normally.

In some high-grade office buildings or office places, in order to ensure the safety of companies and the like, the users usually refuse to enter the office buildings or office places at will, so that the users can only get meals from the appointed places by themselves, and the convenience brought by meal delivery service is also greatly weakened in practice.

On the other hand, for catering suppliers, the traditional manual cooking mode is difficult to have higher supply efficiency and cannot ensure the quality of meals. Moreover, these stores are also subject to significant cost pressures of rent, labor, etc.

Therefore, a new intelligent catering mode is urgently needed to be provided, and fast, safe and quality-guaranteed meals are provided for users.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an intelligent catering getting method, which is used for solving one or more problems in the existing catering supply process.

The first aspect of the embodiment of the invention provides a meal taking method for intelligent catering. The meal taking method comprises the following steps:

generating a corresponding ordering order according to an ordering instruction of a user;

collecting the order form and determining dishes to be cooked;

intelligently determining the cooking position of each dish to be cooked and the cooking procedure of the intelligent cooking terminal according to the cooking requirement of the dish to be cooked;

after the dish to be cooked is placed in the intelligent cooking terminal, starting the intelligent cooking terminal to perform a corresponding cooking procedure, and cooking the dish to be cooked to obtain a corresponding dish;

reading a food ordering order of a user when taking a food;

obtaining meal taking information corresponding to the meal ordering order according to the meal ordering order of the user;

and providing dishes corresponding to the meal taking information for the user.

Optionally, the obtaining, according to the order form of the user, meal taking information corresponding to the order form specifically includes:

storing the meal taking information of the order in a local database of the intelligent cooking terminal in advance;

and retrieving and acquiring the meal taking information of the meal ordering order in the local database.

sending the order form to a cloud server;

and receiving meal taking information which is returned from the cloud server and corresponds to the meal ordering order.

Optionally, the meal fetching information includes: the method comprises the steps of identifying information of a user, the name of an ordered dish, a dish identifier corresponding to the ordered dish and/or a cooking position of the ordered dish.

Optionally, the providing, for the user, the dishes corresponding to the meal fetching information specifically includes:

confirming a food ordering order corresponding to the food taker according to the identity information of the user;

taking out ordered dishes included in the ordering order from the intelligent cooking terminal;

and distributing the ordered dishes to corresponding diners.

Optionally, the taking out the ordered dishes included in the order from the intelligent cooking terminal specifically includes:

according to the dish identification of the ordered dishes, identifying the ordered dishes included in the ordering order in the intelligent cooking terminal and taking out the ordered dishes;

the dish identification used for distinguishing the ordering order to which the dish belongs is preset in each dish to be cooked.

according to the cooking position of the ordered dishes, taking the ordered dishes included in the ordering order from the corresponding position of the intelligent cooking terminal;

wherein the cooking position of the dish to be cooked for each order is pre-recorded.

Optionally, the information storage form of the order includes: two-dimensional code, order number and/or order.

The intelligent catering fetching method provided by the embodiment of the invention adopts a new catering distribution mode. The ordering information of the user can be quickly obtained by reading the ordering order information, and the dish distribution efficiency is effectively improved. The accuracy can be well improved in the information matching and comparing process in the meal taking process, the problem of dish wrong distribution is avoided, and the method has good user experience.

The foregoing description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, and the embodiments of the present invention can be implemented according to the content of the description in order to make the technical means of the embodiments of the present invention more clearly understood, and the detailed description of the present invention is provided below in order to make the foregoing and other objects, features, and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more clearly understandable.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application scenario provided in embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by embodiment 2 of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by embodiment 3 of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by embodiment 4 of the invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by embodiment 5 of the invention;

fig. 6 is a flowchart of a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by embodiment 6 of the invention.

Fig. 7 is a flowchart of a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by embodiment 7 of the invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It will be understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," when used in this specification and the appended claims, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

Example 1:

embodiment 1 is an application scenario related to the intelligent catering meal taking method provided by the embodiment of the invention. In the following, the application scenario shown in fig. 1 is described in detail:

as shown in fig. 1, the application scenario may include: a user 10, a server 20, an intelligent cooking terminal 30 and a catering center 40.

The user 10 may be any user using intelligent food and drink services. Any type of terminal equipment can be adopted, and the corresponding ordering order is input according to the requirement of the terminal equipment. The terminal equipment comprises but is not limited to a smart phone, a tablet computer, a personal computer, wearable equipment and a self-service ordering terminal, and only needs to be provided with at least one interactive device and can interact with a user.

For example, the user 10 may use any smart terminal, such as a smart phone, a tablet, a personal computer, or a wearable device, to enter his or her order. Or, dedicated self-service ordering terminals can be deployed at a plurality of different places, so that a user can input a desired ordering order at the self-service ordering terminal.

The server 20 may be any type of electronic computing platform having logical computing capabilities that can meet usage requirements, including but not limited to clustered servers or distributed servers, etc.

The server 20, as a control center of the whole application scenario, may be used to provide a service of ordering food, collect and collect an order form of a user, perform data analysis, calculate and determine a cooking position, and perform a series of intelligent functions such as a cooking process.

Of course, the system can be selectively deployed at the cloud end according to the needs of actual conditions to provide various functional interfaces, and can also be deployed at each store in a distributed manner to be respectively used for taking charge of functions of data acquisition, data analysis and the like of a specific store.

The intelligent cooking terminal 30 is an implementer that performs dish processing or a processing device that actually performs a cooking operation. The intelligent cooking terminal 30 has an intelligent cooking function, and can automatically perform corresponding cooking operations without any manual operation under the control of the server.

In the practical use process, after the operating personnel only need to place the dish of waiting to cook in the exact culinary art position, intelligent cooking terminal 30 alright by oneself according to the culinary art process and process culinary art operation to provide the dish that corresponds with the order of ordering for the user.

In some embodiments, the intelligent cooking terminal 30 may be placed in different stores (in fig. 1, the intelligent cooking terminal within the dashed box indicates that it belongs to the same store). The intelligent cooking terminals 30 of the same store have the same address. There may be any suitable number of intelligent cooking terminals 30 in a store to meet the needs of the user 10.

A plurality of intelligent cooking terminals 30 distributed at different locations form a complete intelligent catering network, so as to provide intelligent catering services for the users 10. As the number of the intelligent cooking terminals 30 increases, the coverage area and the catering services that can be provided are correspondingly enlarged and increased.

The catering center 40 is a location dedicated to the preparation of dishes, forming dishes to be cooked. Which may be in particular any suitable type of store or factory etc. The catering center 40 is used for preparing raw materials of dishes and matching the raw materials into a plurality of dishes to be cooked in a manual or fully automatic mechanical mode according to needs or instructions.

The dish to be cooked is the dish of raw materials which is prepared and is in a completely sealed container or vessel. After the dishes to be cooked are cooked by the intelligent cooking terminal, the dishes which can be provided for the user to eat are formed.

The catering center 40 may be disposed at any suitable place according to the actual situation, and provides dishes to be cooked to the intelligent cooking terminal 40 by delivery transportation vehicles or the like.

It should be noted that although fig. 1 shows only three users, one server, 4 sets of intelligent cooking terminals located at different geographical locations and one catering center 40, in practical applications, more users, servers and intelligent cooking terminals may be included.

The proliferation of the catering center 40, the intelligent cooking terminal 30, the server 20 and the user 10 is unlimited and simple to implement, and the newly-added intelligent cooking terminal 30 can be incorporated into the catering network only by accessing the server 20 through any suitable communication connection mode such as a wireless network.

Example 2:

embodiment 2 provides a meal fetching method for intelligent catering. This is described in detail below in conjunction with the method flow diagram shown in fig. 2. Although the application scenario of embodiment 1 is described as an example in embodiment 2. However, the meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided in embodiment 2 can also be applied to any other type of scenarios, and is not limited to the scenario shown in fig. 1, and does not limit the scope of protection of the claims of the present application.

As shown in fig. 2, the intelligent catering method may include the following steps:

s210, generating a corresponding ordering order according to the ordering instruction of the user.

The ordering instruction is ordering information input by a user in various terminal devices and used for expressing the ordering requirement of the user. The order generated by the method comprises a series of information related to the catering requirements of the user, such as meal taking time, place and ordered dishes. The user can conveniently create corresponding ordering orders on various terminal devices, set the needed dining time of the user, order dishes or dish preference information and the like.

And S220, collecting the order of the user, and determining all dishes to be cooked.

All dishes to be cooked can be determined by collecting and sorting all the ordering orders. The dish to be cooked is the dish of raw materials which is prepared and is in a completely sealed container or vessel. After the dishes to be cooked are cooked by the intelligent cooking terminal, the dishes which can be provided for the user to eat are formed.

And S230, intelligently determining the cooking position of each dish to be cooked and the cooking process of the intelligent cooking terminal according to the cooking requirement of the dish to be cooked.

It is understood that different dishes need to be cooked in different ways due to different raw materials and the like. Thus, different dishes to be cooked will have different cooking requirements. In addition, even for the same dish, there is a difference in consideration of the user preference of each user. Therefore, different cooking requirements may be placed on the same dish in order orders from different users.

The cooking requirement refers to a series of relevant processing standards such as temperature, heating time and the like required by dishes in the processing and cooking process. The method is specifically determined according to the actual dish condition and by combining experimental data and the like.

In addition, different locations in the same intelligent cooking terminal 30 may have corresponding temperature characteristics. From this, the culinary art requirement of culinary art dish can be through the culinary art position of rational distribution dish and the mode of confirming corresponding culinary art process to the integration for can accomplish the culinary art processing of multiple different dishes simultaneously in same intelligent cooking terminal 30, the multiple different dishes of disposable output, user's demand that can be fine satisfies.

The cooking process is a specific cooking manner of each intelligent cooking terminal 30. The specific cooking process may be determined by the server 20 through a preset intelligent algorithm based on the cooking requirement and the allocation calculation of the cooking positions.

S240, after the dish to be cooked is placed in the intelligent cooking terminal, the intelligent cooking terminal is started to perform a corresponding cooking procedure, and the dish to be cooked is cooked to obtain a corresponding dish.

Specifically, any suitable mode or technical scheme can be adopted, so that dishes to be cooked are all placed at the predetermined cooking position of the intelligent cooking terminal. The complete catering, store delivery and corresponding placement process can be determined according to the needs of actual conditions or other factors, and is not limited herein.

After the dishes to be cooked of one intelligent cooking terminal 30 are placed, the intelligent cooking terminal 30 can be automatically started to perform cooking under the control of the server 20 without additional manual control.

In some embodiments, the server 20 may be a cloud-deployed cluster server, and the plurality of intelligent cooking terminals 30 are connected via a network, and the server 20 issues corresponding control instructions to automatically perform the cooking operation. In other embodiments, the server 20 may be a distributed design, and is directly disposed in each store or each intelligent cooking terminal 30, and serves as a control core of a node, and is only responsible for controlling the node.

And S250, reading the order of the user when taking the meal.

When the cooking is finished and the meal taking time is up, the user can go to a store set by the user to take meals. In the process of taking a meal, the order form of the user needs to be read first to determine the relevant information of the user for ordering the meal.

The user's order is an indexed entry. Based on the entry, all relevant information that determines the user when taking the meal can be retrieved, including but not limited to the user's identity information, the number, type, and preferences of the ordered dishes, and so on.

According to different information representation forms of the ordering order, various different reading modes can be adopted to determine the ordering order of the user, and the ordering order can be obtained only by possibly obtaining the ordering order.

S260, obtaining meal taking information corresponding to the meal ordering order according to the meal ordering order of the user.

After the information of the order form is read, the database can be connected, the order form is used as a search condition, and related meal taking information is obtained to be used for distributing the dishes. The person skilled in the art can select and use any suitable information search acquisition method according to the needs of actual situations, and only needs to acquire the needed meal taking information.

And S270, providing dishes corresponding to the meal taking information for the user.

Based on the obtained meal taking information, various different meal taking modes can be adopted for distributing the dishes, so that the efficient meal taking process is completed. Particularly, dishes corresponding to different ordering orders can be quickly identified in the intelligent cooking terminal in any suitable mode and distributed in a corresponding mode. The manner in which this may be particularly adopted will be illustrated in the examples which follow.

Other suitable identification methods and distribution methods can be selected by those skilled in the art according to the needs of the actual situation. Only by enabling each user to obtain all dishes ordered by the user at the set meal taking time and place. The particular serving distribution and serving scheme employed is not limiting in this application.

Example 3:

embodiment 3 is a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by another embodiment of the invention. The acquisition process of the meal fetch information is further described in example 3, as compared to example 2. This is described in detail below in conjunction with the method flow diagram shown in fig. 3.

In embodiment 3, the application scenario of embodiment 1 is also described as an example. However, the meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by embodiment 3 can also be applied to any other type of scenarios, and is not limited to the scenario shown in fig. 1, and does not limit the scope of protection of the claims of the present application.

As shown in fig. 3, the intelligent catering fetching method may include the following steps:

and S310, generating a corresponding ordering order according to the ordering instruction of the user.

And S320, collecting the order of the user and determining all dishes to be cooked.

S330, intelligently determining the cooking position of each dish to be cooked and the cooking procedure of the intelligent cooking terminal according to the cooking requirement of the dish to be cooked.

S340, after the dish to be cooked is placed in the intelligent cooking terminal, the intelligent cooking terminal is started to perform a corresponding cooking procedure, and the dish to be cooked is cooked to obtain a corresponding dish.

And S350, reading the order of the user when taking the meal.

And S360, storing the meal taking information of the order in a local database of the intelligent cooking terminal in advance.

The local database refers to a database stored in any one or more local electronic devices in the store. The system has the characteristic of being used without being connected with an external network. For example, the local database may be a database stored in the intelligent cooking terminal, or may be a database stored in a kiosk computer of a store.

The pre-storage may be implemented in any suitable manner, including but not limited to copying the database via a removable storage medium, such as a usb disk, or copying or migrating the database to a local electronic device via a network at a specific time.

And S370, retrieving and acquiring the meal taking information of the meal ordering order in the local database.

The database stores the related information of all the ordering orders in the store. And taking the order as a search condition, and acquiring related meal taking information for distributing the dishes.

Databases may typically record structural data in the form of data tables. Each order is an entry. The corresponding meal taking information is mapped to the item. That is, after finding the entry in the database that is the same as the order form, the meal fetching information recorded under the entry can be read, so as to retrieve and obtain the corresponding meal fetching information.

The method for acquiring the meal taking information through the local database can be used under the condition without an external network, high reliability of the meal taking and distributing process is guaranteed, and the situation that the meal taking is influenced because the meal taking information cannot be acquired due to external reasons such as a server network terminal and the like is avoided.

And S380, providing dishes corresponding to the meal taking information for the user.

Example 4:

embodiment 4 is a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by another embodiment of the invention. Compared with embodiment 3, another way of acquiring meal taking information is further described in embodiment 4. This is described in detail below in conjunction with the method flow diagram shown in fig. 4.

In embodiment 4, the application scenario of embodiment 1 is also described as an example. However, the meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided in embodiment 4 can also be applied to any other type of scenarios, and is not limited to the scenario shown in fig. 1, and does not limit the scope of protection of the claims of the present application.

As shown in fig. 4, the intelligent catering method may include the following steps:

and S410, generating a corresponding ordering order according to the ordering instruction of the user.

And S420, collecting the order of the user, and determining all dishes to be cooked.

S430, intelligently determining the cooking position of each dish to be cooked and the cooking procedure of the intelligent cooking terminal according to the cooking requirement of the dish to be cooked.

And S440, after the dish to be cooked is placed in the intelligent cooking terminal, starting the intelligent cooking terminal to perform a corresponding cooking procedure, and cooking the dish to be cooked to obtain a corresponding dish.

S450, reading the order of the user when the user takes the meal.

And S460, sending the ordering order to a cloud server.

Cloud servers are a concept as opposed to local databases. It may specifically be any suitable type of server or cloud platform. When the electronic equipment is used, any electronic equipment in a store is connected with the cloud server through a network, and ordering orders needing to be searched are uploaded.

And S470, receiving meal taking information which is returned from the cloud server and corresponds to the meal ordering order.

The relevant information of all the ordering orders is stored in the cloud server through a specific database, the ordering orders can be used as search conditions, and relevant meal taking information is obtained and used for distributing dishes.

The database deployed in the cloud server may generally record structural data in the form of a data table. Each order is an entry. The corresponding meal taking information is mapped to the item. That is, after finding the entry in the database that is the same as the order form, the meal fetching information recorded under the entry can be read, so as to retrieve and obtain the corresponding meal fetching information.

The cloud server can feed back the retrieval result to the electronic equipment of each store through an external network by the information of the data packet and the like again, so that the electronic equipment can obtain corresponding meal taking information.

The method for retrieving and returning retrieved meal taking information through the cloud server can reduce the amount of the memory required to be deployed by the store, the system deployed at the cloud has the characteristic of high availability, data backup can be realized by using methods such as distributed storage, and the whole database cannot be lost or unavailable due to damage of local equipment of the store.

And S480, providing dishes corresponding to the meal taking information for the user.

Example 5:

embodiment 5 is a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by another embodiment of the invention. In contrast to embodiment 3, a specific procedure of how to distribute a corresponding dish for a user is further described in embodiment 5. This is described in detail below in conjunction with the method flow diagram shown in fig. 5.

In embodiment 5, the application scenario of embodiment 1 is also described as an example. However, the meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by embodiment 5 can also be applied to any other type of scenarios, and is not limited to the scenario shown in fig. 1, and does not limit the scope of protection of the claims of the present application.

Specifically, the meal fetching information may include: the method comprises the steps of identifying information of a user, the name of an ordered dish, a dish identifier corresponding to the ordered dish and/or a cooking position of the ordered dish.

The identity information of the user refers to a mark for distinguishing different users, and the dish ordering refers to dish which is selected by the user in a dish ordering order and has been paid successfully. Each dish may have a unique or unique identification for distinguishing between different dishes. And the cooking position for ordering the dishes refers to the position of the dishes in the intelligent cooking terminal.

It should be noted that the above meal fetching information can be increased or decreased according to the actual needs, and the above meal fetching information is disclosed only for illustration and is not used to limit the scope of the present application.

As shown in fig. 5, the intelligent catering method may include the following steps:

and S510, generating a corresponding ordering order according to the ordering instruction of the user.

S520, collecting the order of ordering of the user and determining all dishes to be cooked.

S530, intelligently determining the cooking position of each dish to be cooked and the cooking procedure of the intelligent cooking terminal according to the cooking requirement of the dish to be cooked.

And S540, after the dish to be cooked is placed in the intelligent cooking terminal, starting the intelligent cooking terminal to perform a corresponding cooking procedure, and cooking the dish to be cooked to obtain a corresponding dish.

And S550, reading the order of the user when taking the meal.

And S560, obtaining meal taking information corresponding to the meal ordering order according to the meal ordering order of the user.

S570, verifying the identity of the user according to the identity information of the user.

The identity information of the user may specifically be any suitable type of indicia for distinguishing between different users, including but not limited to a meal retrieval verification code, a cell phone number, or a device registration number, etc. Of course, biometric authentication information unique to the user himself, such as a fingerprint, iris, or voice print, may be used.

The identity information specifically selected for use may be set as required by the actual situation. Different stores can use one or more kinds of identity information to carry out verification according to different devices.

And S580, after the verification is passed, taking out ordered dishes contained in the ordering order from the intelligent cooking terminal.

After the identity authentication is successful, due to the uniqueness of the identity information, the user who receives the dishes before can be confirmed to be correct, the dishes can be accurately distributed to the corresponding users, and the problem of imposition or wrong receiving is avoided.

The dishes can be taken out of the intelligent cooking terminal by adopting any suitable type of meal taking mode, and the taking mode is determined by the requirement of actual conditions.

And S590, distributing the ordered dishes to corresponding users.

The dishes after being taken out can be distributed to corresponding users, and the whole complete catering supply flow is completed. The specific distribution process can also adopt various different forms, and only by enabling each user to obtain all dishes ordered by the user at the set meal taking time and place, the method is not limited in the application.

Example 6:

embodiment 6 provides a meal fetching method for intelligent catering according to another embodiment of the invention. In comparison with embodiment 3, the identification process of the order corresponding to the dish is further described in embodiment 6. This is described in detail below in conjunction with the method flow diagram shown in fig. 6.

In embodiment 6, the application scenario of embodiment 1 is also described as an example. However, the meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided in embodiment 6 can also be applied to any other type of scenarios, and is not limited to the scenario shown in fig. 1, and does not limit the scope of the claims of the present application.

As shown in fig. 6, the intelligent catering method may include the following steps:

s610, generating a corresponding ordering order according to the ordering instruction of the user.

And S620, collecting the order of the user, and determining all dishes to be cooked.

S630, intelligently determining the cooking position of each dish to be cooked and the cooking procedure of the intelligent cooking terminal according to the cooking requirement of the dish to be cooked.

And S640, after the dish to be cooked is placed in the intelligent cooking terminal, starting the intelligent cooking terminal to perform a corresponding cooking procedure, and cooking the dish to be cooked to obtain a corresponding dish.

And S650, reading the order of the user when taking the meal.

According to different information storage forms of the ordering order, various different reading modes can be adopted to determine the ordering order of the user, and the ordering order can be obtained only by possibly obtaining the ordering order.

In some embodiments, the stored form of information for the order includes: a two-dimensional code, an order number, and/or the order itself. Correspondingly, a shop or an intelligent cooking terminal may be configured with a corresponding code scanning device to read a corresponding order as a search condition for searching to obtain meal taking information.

S660, obtaining meal taking information corresponding to the meal ordering order according to the meal ordering order of the user.

And S670, identifying ordered dishes included in the ordering order in the intelligent cooking terminal and taking out the ordered dishes according to the dish identification of the ordered dishes.

The dish identification used for distinguishing the ordering order to which the dish belongs is preset in each dish to be cooked. The dish to be cooked is the dish of raw materials which is prepared and is in a completely sealed container or vessel. After the dishes to be cooked are cooked by the intelligent cooking terminal, the dishes which can be provided for the user to eat are formed. The dish identification may be provided on the dish container. Different identifications correspond to different ordering orders and are used for distinguishing different dishes. That is, the dishes contained in the dish container may be distinguished by the identification on the dish container. In particular, any type or material of dish container may be used.

After the cooking processing program of the intelligent cooking terminal is finished, the dish to be cooked can become a finished cooked dish product and can be provided for a user. Based on the dish identification of the ordered dishes recorded in the meal taking information, the ordered dishes included in the order can be quickly positioned and found in the intelligent cooking terminal and provided for the user, and the whole meal matching process is completed.

Example 7:

embodiment 7 is a meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by another embodiment of the invention. In comparison with example 6, another way of identifying the order corresponding to the dish is further described in example 7. This is described in detail below in conjunction with the method flow diagram shown in fig. 7.

In embodiment 7, the application scenario of embodiment 1 is also described as an example. However, the meal fetching method for intelligent catering provided by embodiment 7 can also be applied to any other type of scenarios, and is not limited to the scenario shown in fig. 1, and does not limit the scope of protection of the claims of the present application.

As shown in fig. 7, the method for getting meals by intelligent catering may include the following steps:

and S710, generating a corresponding ordering order according to the ordering instruction of the user.

S720, collecting the order of the user, and determining all dishes to be cooked.

And S730, intelligently determining the cooking position of each dish to be cooked and the cooking process of the intelligent cooking terminal according to the cooking requirement of the dish to be cooked.

And S740, after the dish to be cooked is placed in the intelligent cooking terminal, starting the intelligent cooking terminal to perform a corresponding cooking procedure, and cooking the dish to be cooked to obtain a corresponding dish.

And S750, reading the order of the user when the user takes the meal.

S760, obtaining meal taking information corresponding to the meal ordering order according to the meal ordering order of the user.

S770, taking out the ordered dishes included in the ordering order from the corresponding position of the intelligent cooking terminal according to the cooking positions of the ordered dishes.

Wherein the cooking position of the dish to be cooked for each order is pre-recorded. The pre-recording means that the cooking position of each dish is stored in a specific database so as to be called quickly when the dish is used later. The recording and storing of the location related data information may in particular be realized by any suitable data recording or storing means. For example, the records may be stored in a cloud database, and may be searched and recalled on demand.

After the cooking processing program of the intelligent cooking terminal is finished, the dish to be cooked can become a finished cooked dish product and can be provided for a user. Since the dishes will not change their positions during the cooking process. Therefore, dishes contained in the dish container or corresponding ordering orders can be rapidly identified through the pre-recorded cooking positions and provided for the user, and the whole catering process is completed.

According to the practical intelligent cooking terminal, the position information can specifically comprise corresponding dimensions for clearly expressing and defining the position of the dishes. For example, the cooking positions comprise an intelligent cooking terminal where dishes to be cooked are located, a processing cabinet where the dishes to be cooked are located, and positions where the dishes to be cooked are placed in the processing cabinet.

It should be noted that the method for distinguishing dishes by using placed cooking positions and identifiers can be applied to various food taking modes (including distribution by service staff, self-taking by users and automatic machine food taking), and the adjustment of the specific mode for distinguishing and identifying different dishes to adapt to different food taking modes is within the protection scope of the present application.

In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. It is understood, however, that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure an understanding of this description.

One or more functional steps in the meal fetching method of the intelligent catering are described in detail in the above embodiments 2 to 7. It should be understood that the meal fetching method of the intelligent catering, which is obtained by any combination of one or more steps mentioned in the above embodiments 2 to 7, belongs to the simple transformation of the invention. For simplicity of presentation, not all combinations are described separately.

Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, various features of the embodiments of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the invention and aiding in the understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects. However, the disclosed method should not be interpreted as reflecting an intention that: that the invention as claimed requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the detailed description are hereby expressly incorporated into this detailed description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the method steps in the embodiments may be adaptively changed and arranged in one or more methods different from the embodiments. One or more steps in the embodiments may be combined into one step, and further may be divided into a plurality of sub-steps. All of the features disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings), and all of the processes of any method so disclosed, may be combined in any combination, except combinations where at least some of such features and/or processes are mutually exclusive. Each feature disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise.

While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, the invention is not limited thereto, and various equivalent modifications and substitutions can be easily made by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A meal taking method for intelligent catering is characterized by comprising the following steps:

collecting the order form and determining dishes to be cooked;

reading a food ordering order of a user when taking a food;

and providing dishes corresponding to the meal taking information for the user.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining meal taking information corresponding to the order form according to the order form of the user specifically includes:

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining meal taking information corresponding to the order form according to the order form of the user specifically includes:

sending the order form to a cloud server;

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the meal fetching information comprises: the method comprises the steps of identifying information of a user, the name of an ordered dish, a dish identifier corresponding to the ordered dish and/or a cooking position of the ordered dish.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the providing the dishes corresponding to the meal taking information for the user specifically comprises:

verifying the identity of the user according to the identity information of the user;

after the dish ordering order passes the verification, taking out ordered dishes included in the dish ordering order from the intelligent cooking terminal;

and distributing the ordered dishes to corresponding users.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the taking of the ordered dishes included in the order from the intelligent cooking terminal specifically includes:

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the taking of the ordered dishes included in the order from the intelligent cooking terminal specifically includes:

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the stored form of information for the order comprises: two-dimensional code, order number and/or order.