JP2000057383A - Automatic ticket vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the automatic ticket vending machine which facilitates operation for quitting vending a ticket of food whose material becomes out of stock and manages the vending of food tickets according to only whether or not materials are in stock. SOLUTION: A memory (RAM) 600 is stored with a food material table wherein food materials B1 to Bm of respective menus are registered corresponding to the menus. In an out-of-stock food material registering means 100 consisting of switches S1 to Sm made to correspond to the food materials B1 to Bm, food materials which are out of stock are registered by turning on and off the respective switches. A ticket issue inhibition control means consisting of resistances R1 to Rm, an input interface 300, a CPU 400, and a ROM 500 performs retrieval from the food material table by using as key words the food materials registered in the out-of-stock food material registering means 100 to inhibit the ticket for a corresponding menu from being issued and displays the stop of the vending of the menu.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic ticket vending machine for automatically issuing a meal ticket of a menu according to a customer's order at a restaurant or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional automatic ticket vending machine, a switch is provided corresponding to each menu, and when a menu is sold out, a switch corresponding to the menu is closed, and the menu of the menu that has been sold out is closed. They had stopped selling meal tickets.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the configuration of this conventional automatic ticket vending machine. As shown in the figure, switches SW1 to SWn that are closed when each menu is sold out are provided in correspondence with menus A1 to An.
One of the contacts 1 to SWn is commonly connected to the ground GND. Loads R1 to Rn are connected between the other contacts of the switches SW1 to SWn and the power supply Vcc.
Are connected to each other, and a signal having the voltage level of the ground GND or the power supply Vcc appears at the connection point between the switch and the load in accordance with the closing / opening of each switch. This signal is input via an input interface (input I / F) 30 to a central processing unit (CPU) 40 that executes various processes related to ticketing. A program for executing processing in the CPU 40 is stored in the non-volatile memory (ROM) 50.

[0004] According to the automatic ticket vending machine configured as described above, when a certain food material is out of stock and, for example, the menu A1 using the food material is sold out, a person who manages the operation of the ticket vending machine can be used. The switch SW1 corresponding to the menu A1 provided in the kitchen is closed. As a result, the potential at the connection point between the switch SW1 and the load R1 is driven to the ground level, and a signal indicating that the menu A1 has been sold out is given to the CPU 40 via the input interface 30.

The CPU 40, which has received a signal from the input interface 30, controls lighting of a sold-out display lamp provided on a menu selection button for customer service (not shown), and releases a meal ticket by the menu selection button with the sold-out display lamp lit. Ban. The sale of the meal ticket by the menu selection button in which the sold-out display lamp is not turned on is performed as usual. These series of ticketing processes are performed in the ROM 5
It is executed according to the program stored in “0”.

[0006]

According to the above-mentioned conventional automatic ticket vending machine, when a certain foodstuff is commonly used in a plurality of menus, when the foodstuff runs out of stock,
The corresponding switches among the switches SW1 to SWn must be operated so as to cancel the release of all of the menus in which the food is used, and the menu which is out of stock due to the stock of the food being sold out There is a problem that the operation for canceling the release is troublesome.

In this case, since there are a plurality of switches that need to be operated, human errors tend to occur when the switches are operated, and the setting of the menu for canceling the release is likely to occur. There has been a problem that the operation efficiency of the operation for canceling the meal ticket of the generated menu to be released is reduced.

As a related prior art, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-119467,
There is an order management system that manages the order of food by managing the stock of food. According to this system, it is necessary to input information on the stock of food. If it cannot be managed, it cannot be used.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and can easily perform an operation for canceling the release of a meal ticket of a menu in which ingredients are out of stock. It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic ticket vending machine that can manage the release of meal tickets of each menu only by cutting out.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has the following arrangement. That is, the automatic ticket vending machine according to the present invention is a vending machine that issues a meal ticket of a menu according to a customer's order, a food table in which ingredients of each menu are registered in association with a menu, and an out-of-stock ingredient. Out-of-stock food registration means to be registered, and ticketing prohibition control means for searching the food table using the ingredients registered in the out-of-stock food registration means as keywords, and prohibiting issuance of food tickets for the corresponding menu. It is characterized by.

[0011] According to the present invention, the foodstuff out of stock is registered in the foodstuff registration means, and the menu in which the foodstuff out of stock is used is specified by searching the foodstuff table. Thus, a plurality of menus that commonly use the ingredients are specified by simply registering the ingredients that have been out of stock (that is, the presence or absence of the ingredients) without being aware of the menus that use the ingredients that have been out of stock. You. Therefore, even if a certain ingredient runs out of stock,
Only by registering this food material, it becomes possible to perform control for canceling the release of a plurality of menus using this food material as sold out.

In the present invention, registering an out-of-stock ingredient and registering an out-of-stock ingredient are synonymous. Registering an out-of-stock ingredient and registering the ingredient Registering the presence or absence is also used synonymously.

[0013] The automatic ticket vending machine according to the present invention is further characterized by further comprising display control means for controlling display of cancellation of issuing of a ticket issued by the ticket prohibition control means. This makes it possible to inform the customer of the menu that has been sold out due to the shortage of ingredients.

Further, the out-of-stock food registration means is separated so as to be installable at a place away from the apparatus main body including the ticket prohibition control means. This makes it possible to register out-of-stock ingredients from a location remote from the apparatus body.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the drawings, common elements are denoted by the same reference numerals. FIG. 1 shows a configuration of an automatic ticket vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, switches S1 to Sm which are closed when the foods are out of stock are provided in correspondence with the foods B1 to Bn, and one contact of the switches S1 to Sm is common to the ground GND. It is connected. These switches S1 to Sm constitute an out-of-stock food registering means 100 for registering out-of-stock ingredients, and are installed separately from the apparatus body of the automatic ticket vending machine so that a cook can operate in a kitchen, for example. Is done.

Loads R1 to Rn each composed of, for example, a resistance element are connected between the other contact point of each of the switches S1 to Sm and the power supply Vcc. A signal having the voltage level of the ground GND or the power supply Vcc appears according to the closing / opening of each switch. This signal is sent to a central processing unit (CP) via an input interface (input I / F) 300 for executing various processes including a process when a menu (food) is sold out.
U) 400 and input to the nonvolatile memory (ROM) 50
0 stores a program for executing the processing.

The CPU 400 is an out-of-stock food registration means 1
By using the foodstuff registered in 00 as a keyword, a foodstuff table stored in advance in a random access memory (RAM) 600 is searched, and a ticketing prohibition control unit for prohibiting the issuance of a food ticket of a corresponding menu is realized. This C
The PU 400 controls a series of operations related to ticketing of the automatic ticketing machine, and implements the above-described ticketing prohibition control means, and displays the cancellation of ticketing of a meal ticket prohibited from being issued by the ticketing prohibition control means. Then, a display control means for notifying the customer of the sold out menu is also realized. The display of the cancellation of the issue of the meal ticket is performed by turning on a sold-out display lamp.
It is provided for each customer service menu selection button (not shown) for the customer to select a menu.

Here, as shown in FIG.
Menus A1 through A
Ingredients B1 to Bm according to the recipe of each menu are registered in association with n, and the ingredient table is configured so that the menu can be extracted from the ingredients used. In other words, the association between the menu and the ingredients is performed based on the recipe of each menu, and the ingredient table is configured so that the menu can be specified from the ingredients.

In the example shown in FIG. 2, for example, menu A
Ingredients B1, B used in this menu for i
j and Bm are associated with each other, and conversely, for example, the menu A3 and Ai using this ingredient are associated with the ingredient Bj. Therefore, for example, by searching the ingredient table shown in FIG. 2 using the ingredient Bj as a keyword, it is possible to extract the menus A3 and Ai that become sold out when the ingredient Bj runs out of stock. This food table is a random access memory R so that it can be arbitrarily rewritten.
By rewriting the data stored in the AM 600 and stored in the RAM 600, for example, addition, deletion, or change of a menu or a food item in the food table, or change of association between the menu and the food is performed.

Hereinafter, the operation of the automatic ticket vending machine of this embodiment configured as described above will be described. Now, for example, when the stock of the food B2 shown in FIG. 2 runs out, a person who manages the operation of the ticketing machine (for example, a cook in a kitchen) operates the switch S2 associated with the food B2, and Is closed. As a result, the potential at the connection point between the switch S2 and the load R2 is driven to the ground level, and a signal indicating that the food B2 is out of stock is given to the CPU 400 via the input interface 300. At this time, the input interface 300 inputs a signal corresponding to the open / closed state of each of the switches S1 to Sm, and D0 to D7 representing the out-of-stock ingredients B2
Is output to the CPU 400.

The CPU 400 as ticketing prohibiting means searches the food table shown in FIG. 2 stored in the RAM 600 using the food B2 represented by the data from the input interface 300 as a keyword, and menus A2 and A3 using the food B2. , An are extracted. Next, the CPU 400 as the display control means sets these menus A2, A3,
The sold-out display lamp provided on the customer service menu selection button for selecting the meal ticket of An is controlled to be turned on to notify the customer that these menus have been sold out.

Further, the CPU 400 does not accept a customer's sale request for a meal ticket by the menu selection button with the sold-out display lamp illuminated, and prohibits the sale of a meal ticket of a menu whose ingredients are out of stock. On the other hand, the sale of the meal ticket by the menu selection button in which the sold-out display lamp is not turned on is performed as usual.

Even if the foodstuff is once registered in the out-of-stock foodstuff registration means 100, if the foodstuff is subsequently replenished, the corresponding switch is opened to release the registration of the foodstuff. The cut foodstuff registration means 100 deletes the foodstuff, and the sale of the menu ticket using the foodstuff is resumed. These series of ticketing processes are performed in the ROM 500
It is executed according to the program stored in.

In the above-described embodiment, the out-of-stock registration means 100 is separated from the apparatus main body so as to be installed in a kitchen, for example. However, the out-of-stock registration means 100 is integrated with the apparatus main body. The configuration may be made according to the usage status. The transmission and reception of the signal between the out-of-stock registration unit 100 and the main body may be performed via an optical signal such as an infrared ray or a radio wave.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the out-of-stock ingredients are registered by closing a switch corresponding to the out-of-stock ingredients, but may be opened on the contrary. It is possible to make the open / closed state of the switch correspond to the out of stock according to the design circumstances.

Further, a program for a series of ticketing processing is stored in the ROM 500, and the food table is stored in the RAM 60.
However, the program and the food table are not limited to these storage devices, but may be configured to be stored in another storage device.

[0027]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained. In other words, the food table is searched using the out-of-stock ingredients as keywords, and issuance of a meal ticket for the corresponding menu is prohibited. Therefore, the out-of-stock ingredients are designated, and the menu using this ingredient is extracted. It is possible to cancel the sale of a sold-out menu without specifying the menu itself.

Therefore, it is possible to easily perform an operation for canceling the release of the menu in which the ingredients are out of stock, and to register (input) only the presence / absence of the ingredients (ie, out of stock) to enter each menu. Release tickets can be managed.

Further, since the display of the cancellation of the issuance of the meal ticket is controlled, it is possible to inform the customer of the menu which has been sold out due to the out of stock of the ingredients, and therefore, the customer who wants to buy the meal ticket can be notified. Can identify a menu on sale and purchase a meal ticket.

Further, since the out-of-stock food registration means is separated so that it can be installed at a location remote from the apparatus main body, the out-of-stock food registration means can be registered from a remote place without moving to the place where the apparatus main body is installed. be able to.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an automatic ticket vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a food table included in the automatic ticket vending machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an automatic ticket vending machine according to the related art.

[Explanation of symbols]

100 ... out-of-stock food registration means, 300 ... input interface, 400 ... central processing unit (CPU), 500 ...
Non-volatile memory (ROM), 600: random access memory (RAM), S1 to Sm: switch, R1 to Rm
... load, A1-An ... menu, B1-Bm ... ingredients.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An automatic ticket vending machine for issuing a menu ticket according to a customer's order, a food table in which ingredients of each menu are registered in association with a menu, and an out-of-stock ingredient registration for registering out-of-stock ingredients. Means, and a ticket prohibition control means for retrieving the food table using the ingredients registered in the out-of-stock ingredient registration means as keywords, and prohibiting the issuance of a meal ticket for the corresponding menu. Machine. 2. The automatic ticket vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising display control means for controlling display of cancellation of issuing of a ticket issued by the ticket inhibition control means. 3. The automatic ticket vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the out-of-stock food registering means is separated so as to be installed at a place apart from the apparatus main body including the ticket prohibition control means.