JP2002150053A - Recipe material order receiving device, recipe material ordering system, recording medium with recipe material order receiving program recorded thereon and recipe material order receiving method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recipe by using a network and to make it possible to purchase a food material easily. SOLUTION: A server device 11 displays the recipe on a Web site by reading recipe data on food from a recipe data file stored in a memory device 12. An order screen of the food material is displayed when a user accesses the server device 11 from a personal computer 13 at home and selects the recipe. When the user orders the required food material on the order screen, the food material is delivered to home.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recipe ordering device, a recipe ordering system, a recording medium storing a recipe ordering program, and a recipe ordering method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Various cooking methods (recipe) can be easily known from a TV cooking program or the like. However, in order to actually make the cooking, the amount of necessary ingredients is determined based on the number of family members. You have to go to supermarkets and buy materials. Further, when there is no material specified in the recipe in the supermarket, it is necessary to change to another material. In this case, the user must be able to determine which material can be used instead.

[0003]

However, it is difficult for everyone to have knowledge of various cooking ingredients. In addition, it is more convenient to be able to obtain necessary ingredients while staying at home without having to go out to buy ingredients.

[0004] In addition, those who are allergic to food must purchase foods that do not contain allergenic materials, and those who are restricted in their diet, such as calories and salt,
It is necessary to devise a dish that satisfies those conditions, and it is troublesome to determine the content of the dish as compared to a normal meal.

[0005] It is an object of the present invention to provide a user with a recipe on a network such as the Internet or in a supermarket or the like so that the user can easily purchase ingredients of the recipe. Another challenge is to enable people with food allergies and dietary restrictions to purchase ingredients with recipes that meet their requirements.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
An apparatus connected to a client device via a network, the order receiving means for displaying a recipe of a dish and receiving an order for ingredients from the client apparatus, and a sending means for sending the ingredients received by the order receiving means to the client. And

[0007] According to the present invention, a user can obtain information on a recipe of a dish and order a required amount of ingredients of the recipe, thereby obtaining a desired ingredient of the dish while staying at home.

In the above invention, personal information collecting means for collecting information on a client's food allergy or dietary restriction, and a recipe ingredient based on the client's food allergy or dietary restriction information collected by the personal information collecting means. It may have a food material changing means for changing.

[0009] The personal information collecting means for collecting information on food allergies or dietary restrictions of the client is provided, and the order receiving means executes a recipe suitable for the information on food allergies or dietary restrictions collected by the personal information collecting means. You may make it display.

[0010] With this configuration, a person who has to restrict the diet or a person with food allergies can obtain a recipe suitable for each condition, and can receive the ingredients of the recipe at home. it can.

A recipe material ordering system according to a fifth aspect of the present invention is a system in which a customer purchases a desired food material using a sheet on which the food material of the cooking recipe is printed, wherein the customer specifies the food material to be purchased. A reading unit for optically reading the paper and an output unit for outputting the food data of the foodstuff purchased by the customer read by the reading unit are provided, and the necessary food materials are procured according to the food data output from the output unit. Collect the ingredients and give them to the customer.

According to the present invention, the customer selects the ingredients he / she wants to purchase using the paper on which the ingredients of the recipe are printed, and the selected ingredients are collected by the person in charge of the grocery store.
Those ingredients are given to the customer in a lump. Therefore, the customer can not only decide a dish by looking at the provided recipe, but also can purchase necessary ingredients in a lump, thereby saving time for purchasing the ingredients.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a procedure for ordering ingredients via the Internet.

The server device 11 has a storage device 12 such as a hard disk, reads out recipe data of a dish from a recipe data file stored in the storage device 12,
It has a function of displaying recipes on a Web site and receiving orders for ingredients.

A user can use a server device 1 of a company that provides cooking recipes from a personal computer (client device) 13 at home or the like via the Internet 14.
1 to select a recipe of a dish displayed on the Web site.

When a user selects a recipe for a particular dish, the server apparatus 11 displays an order screen for ingredients of the selected recipe on the personal computer 13 on the consumer (client) side. When the user orders food on the order screen, the data is transmitted to the server device 11, and the food is delivered to the destination specified by the user.

FIGS. 2A and 2B are diagrams showing an example of a food order screen, a destination, and a payment method input screen. As shown in FIG. 2A, the ingredients of the recipe selected by the user are displayed on the ingredient order screen. Since the field for inputting the required number of ingredients is in a pull-down format, the corresponding number is selected from the displayed numbers. When the number of people is selected, the server device 11 calculates the amount of ingredients that match the number of people, and the amount of each food is displayed on the personal computer 13 on the user side.

Next, when the user clicks on a required food among the displayed foods, a check mark is displayed in the check box 21 to the left of the character indicating the food selected by the user. In addition, other conditions, for example, when individually increasing the amount of food, enter a desired amount (FIG. 1).
of~). At this time, unnecessary ingredients at home are not checked unless checked. Then, order button 22
Click to order ingredients. To cancel the order, click the cancel button 23.

Upon receiving an order from the user, the server apparatus 11 transmits to the user a message requesting input of a delivery address, a delivery date and time, a payment method, and the like of the ingredients. The user inputs a delivery address, a delivery date and time, a payment method, and the like on the message input screen shown in FIG. 2B and replies (FIG. 1).

When the server device 11 receives a message designating a destination or the like from the user, the server device 11 stores the data in the storage device 12 and transmits the data of the food and the destination to which the order has been received to the food supplier. Direct shipping of ingredients. Alternatively, a company providing recipe information may directly arrange ingredients and send them to the user.

According to this embodiment, the user can decide on a dish by looking at the recipe displayed on the Web site on the Internet, and order the ingredients necessary for the dish at once. Ingredients ordered are delivered to the specified destination (such as home)
Since it is delivered to a shop, there is no need to go to a supermarket or the like to buy ingredients, and time for shopping can be saved.

Next, FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a process for collecting information on the presence or absence of a food allergy of the user and dietary restrictions and displaying a recipe that meets the conditions. It is confirmed whether or not there is a food allergy (FIG. 3, S11). If there is a food allergy, it is first checked whether or not it is an egg allergy (S12). In case of egg allergy (S
12, YES), the fact that there is an egg allergy is stored as the user's personal information (S13). Next, it is confirmed whether or not the buckwheat is allergic (S14). In the case of buckwheat allergy (S14, YES), the fact that buckwheat allergy is present is stored as personal information of the user (S15).

Next, it is confirmed whether or not it is necessary to restrict the diet (S16). If it is necessary to restrict the diet (S16, YES), it is checked whether the diet is restricted due to diabetes (S17). If dietary restriction due to diabetes is required (S17, YES), the fact that dietary restriction due to diabetes is required is stored as personal information of the user (S1).
8). Next, it is confirmed whether there is a calorie restriction due to obesity or the like (S19). If the calorie restriction is necessary (S19, YES), it is confirmed how much calorie is to be suppressed, and the numerical value of the calorie restriction is stored as personal information of the user (S20).

Then, based on the collected personal information on the user's food allergy and dietary restrictions, a menu recipe suitable for the condition is displayed (S21). FIG.
It is a figure which shows the input screen of personal information, such as a food allergy and a meal restriction, and the display screen of the recipe based on it.

First, a question "Do you have an allergy" is displayed, followed by characters such as "egg, buckwheat, alcohol". If they are allergic, the user clicks on the characters with a mouse or the like. When you click a character, a check mark appears in the checkbox next to the character.

Next, the question "Do you have any dietary restrictions?" Is displayed, followed by "Saline,
Characters such as "sugar" are displayed. When dietary restriction is required, when the user clicks a character with a mouse or the like, a check mark is displayed in a check box next to the character.

Finally, a question "Is there any illness currently being recuperated?" Is displayed, followed by characters such as "Diabetes, heart disease, liver disease". When there is an illness during medical treatment, when the user clicks the corresponding illness name with a mouse or the like, a check mark next to the character is displayed.

When the user confirms the input contents and operates the end button, the personal information is transmitted to the server device 11 and stored in the storage device 12 as the user's personal information, and at the same time, the food allergy and the dietary restriction are restricted. The recipe that matches the content is displayed. For example, if there is a food allergy, a recipe using ingredients that do not contain allergen-source food is displayed. Once the personal information is registered, when the same user subsequently selects a recipe, a recipe suitable for the registered personal information is displayed.

According to this embodiment, the user obtains a recipe that meets these conditions by inputting information such as the presence or absence of food allergies, the details of dietary restrictions, and the illness being treated. It can be received by home delivery or the like. Therefore, the labor of cooking while paying attention to ingredients, calories, and the like can be omitted, and the burden of preparing meals can be reduced.

Next, instead of obtaining the recipe via the Internet, a paper on which the ingredients of the recipe are printed is distributed to the customer in a store such as a supermarket, and the customer designates the ingredient that the customer wants to purchase on the paper, and stores the paper. The procedure of a system in which ingredients can be purchased in a lump by submitting them to a supermarket window will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

The customer refers to the recipe printed on the paper placed in the supermarket store (FIG. 5, S3).
1), it is determined whether or not to purchase individual ingredients (S3)
2). When the ingredients to be purchased are determined, a mark or a letter is entered in a check box next to the corresponding ingredient on the paper (S33). Then, the filled-out sheet is given to the clerk at a predetermined counter in the store (S34). The clerk who received the paper received an OCR (optical character reade).
r), paper is read by an optical reading device such as an OMR (optical mark reader), and food data relating to food products that the customer wants to purchase is input to the computer. The input food data is displayed on a computer display of a person in charge of food procurement connected via a LAN or the like, or printed out on a paper medium and output. The person in charge of the ingredients searches for the ordered ingredients and compiles the ingredients for each customer.

When the customer has completed shopping in the store, the customer picks up the ordered food at the food delivery counter (S3).
5). Finally, the purchased goods are settled at the cash register (S3
6). According to this embodiment, the customer simply specifies the ingredients of the desired recipe from the recipes provided by the shop, and the shop procures the ingredients and delivers them collectively. The purchase becomes very easy. Also, the customer only has to select the recipe of the dish he wants to eat from the provided recipes and select the necessary ingredients among them, so he decides the dish as before and further decides on the dish Since it is not necessary to consider whether or not the ingredients are necessary, it is not necessary to spend time on the selection of the ingredients. Further, since all the necessary ingredients are displayed in the recipe, it is possible to eliminate waste such as forgetting to buy the ingredients and going to the supermarket again.

Next, an example will be described in which a recipe is displayed in a cooking program provided on a CATV or the like so that the ingredients of the recipe can be ordered at home. In this case, an order screen for the ingredients of the recipe may be displayed on the television so that the order can be input on the screen with the center of the CATV, or the displayed ingredients of the recipe can be transmitted from a personal computer or the like via the Internet. You may order at. Alternatively, the user can follow the voice guidance on their home phone,
The ingredients of the recipe displayed on the television may be made orderable. Cable TV subscribers can confirm the payment method and delivery destination using the information because the address and payment method of the contract fee are fixed, so there is no need to enter a credit card number etc. Users can feel safe.

In addition to the CATV, digital broadcasting,
In CS, data can be transmitted and received in both directions between the sending side and the receiving side. Therefore, the order screen for recipe ingredients is displayed on the screen, and the viewer operates the dedicated operation terminal or the like to display the ingredients on the order screen. May be ordered, and a payment method such as a delivery time may be input.

A program for realizing the functions of the server device 11 described above is stored in a CD-ROM, a floppy (registered trademark).
The program may be stored in a portable recording medium such as a disk or a storage device of the program provider, and the program may be loaded into the information processing apparatus and executed.

A program for receiving an order for a recipe material is a CD.
-When recorded on a portable recording medium such as a ROM or a floppy disk, the portable recording medium is inserted into a drive device of an information processing apparatus to read a program, and the read program is stored in a RAM, a hard disk, or the like. Executes the program stored in the device. Further, when the program is provided from the program provider via a communication line, the program stored in the storage device, the memory, or the like of the program provider is received by the information processing device via the communication line, and the program is received. The program is stored in a storage device such as a RAM or a hard disk and executed. Note that the program recorded on the portable recording medium may realize a part of the functions described in the embodiment.

In the above-described embodiment, the paper on which the recipe of the dish is printed is distributed to the customer in the supermarket. However, the present invention is not limited to the method of distributing the paper, and a terminal device for displaying the recipe is installed in the store. The terminal may be installed so that food can be ordered using the terminal device.
Alternatively, a portable terminal having a wireless communication function may be lent to a customer in a store, and the customer may order ingredients while looking at the recipe displayed on the portable terminal, and collectively receive the ordered ingredients.

[0038]

According to the present invention, it is possible to order necessary ingredients while watching a recipe of a dish displayed on a television, an Internet web site, or the like, and receive the ingredients at a designated destination. Makes purchasing easier. In addition, it is possible to order ingredients while looking at the recipe in a grocery store or the like, and to have the shop procure the ordered ingredients in a lump, thereby saving time for purchasing the ingredients.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a procedure for ordering ingredients via the Internet.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an order screen, a destination, and an input screen for a payment method.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a process for displaying a recipe suitable for the contents of allergies and dietary restrictions.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a personal information input screen and a recipe display screen based on the input screen;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a procedure of a service for providing recipe ingredients in a supermarket.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 server device 12 storage device 13 personal computer

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. An apparatus connected to a client device via a network, comprising: an order receiving means for displaying a recipe of a dish and receiving an order for a food material from the client device; A recipe material order receiving device, comprising: a sending means for sending to a client. 2. The food delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the sending means sends information of the client who has received the order to a foodstuff supplier to order the foodstuff, and causes the foodstuff supplier to send the foodstuff to the client. Recipe material ordering equipment. 3. A personal information collecting means for collecting information on a food allergy or a dietary restriction of a client, and changing ingredients of a recipe based on information on a food allergy or a dietary restriction of the client collected by the personal information collecting means. 3. The recipe material order receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising a food material changing unit. 4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising personal information collecting means for collecting information on food allergies or dietary restrictions of the client, wherein said order receiving means conforms to information on food allergies or dietary restrictions collected by said personal information collecting means. 3. The recipe material order receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the recipe is displayed. 5. A system for purchasing foods desired by a customer using paper on which foods of a cooking recipe are printed, wherein said reading means optically reads a paper on which the foods specified by the customer are designated; Output means for outputting ingredient data of ingredients purchased by the customer read by the reading means, procuring necessary ingredients in accordance with the ingredient data output from the output means, and collectively delivering the acquired ingredients to the customer. Characteristic recipe material ordering system. 6. A client device is provided with a recipe for a dish via a network, an order for the ingredients of the recipe is received by a server device connected to the network, and the ingredients ordered from the client are delivered to a designated destination. A recording medium on which a recipe material ordering program for causing a computer to perform a process for causing the computer to execute the processing is described. 7. Providing a recipe for a dish to a client device via a network, receiving an order for the ingredient of the recipe by a server device connected to the network, and delivering the ingredient ordered from the client to a designated destination. Recipe material ordering method characterized by the following.