JP2003189994A - Food supplying system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food supplying system reducing labor of an employee, saving power, and capable of immediately corresponding to customer side mass consumption and swiftly supplying various foods desired by a customer. <P>SOLUTION: In the food supplying system, the various foods manufactured by per-food specified procedures after going through a common procedure are carried on an endless circulating conveyance path 4 circulating in a customer area 3 with one part passing through a kitchen area 2 and they are supplied to the customers. A conveyance device 11 placing food 10 in midst of manufacture after the common procedure on tableware and endlessly carrying them around is provided in a neighborhood of the circulating conveyance path 4a passing through the kitchen area 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a food supply system for supplying various kinds of foods to customers by running them on an endless circulation carrier path, a part of which passes through the kitchen area and circulates inside the customers area. Regarding

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, as a food supply system for supplying various kinds of sushi of different kinds, such as revolving sushi, to a customer as a food supply system, on a circulation transfer circulation transfer path that runs endlessly between a customer area and a kitchen area. In addition, various kinds of sushi are arranged and circulated to serve customers.

In such a food supply system,
Conventionally, sushi is placed in a food and drink container in the kitchen area, and then placed on a transport path circulating in the kitchen area.

[0004] In a large store with a relatively large area for eating and drinking, sushi must be served in a quick manner according to the consumption of sushi when the restaurant is busy, so that the chef prepares a large number of empty food and drink containers. It was necessary, and the clerk carried empty food and drink containers and sushi rice to the cook near each time.
The labor burden on the store clerk is large, and it may be necessary to increase the number of store clerk because it is temporarily busy. Therefore, if the store clerk is increased, the labor cost increases.

In order to avoid such a situation, the applicant has endeavored to provide a food supply system in which an empty food and drink container is run endlessly near a cook to reduce the labor of a clerk and save labor. Already invented. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the food supply system previously invented by the present applicant.
The food supply system will be described below. In the kitchen area 02 and the customer area 03 partitioned by the partition wall 01, a circulating food and drink conveying device 04 including a known crescent chain conveyor is provided endlessly. This circulation type food and drink conveying device 04 includes a straight conveying path 04a which circulates along the partition 01 in the kitchen area 02, and three rows of overhanging conveying paths 0 protruding from the partition 01 toward the eating and drinking area 03.
4b and is an E-shaped circulating transport path in plan view.

A food and drink counter 05 or a plurality of tables 06 are provided on both sides of each overhanging transport path 04b, and a food and drink container placed on the straight transport path 04a in the kitchen area 02, for example, a sushi plate on which sushi is served. , Are continuously supplied to each overhanging conveyance path 04b. Below the placing table 07 in the kitchen area 02, which is close to the linear transport path 04a, an empty food container 0 before serving food and drink is placed.
An empty container transporting device 09 is provided for endlessly rotating 8 in the left-right direction.

[0007]

However, in the above-mentioned food supply system, since the empty food and drink container 08 is conveyed on the empty container conveying device 09, there is some room in the supply of the container. In order to quickly supply sushi served in response to the large amount of consumption on the part of the customer and the demands of customers changing from one to the next, it takes time to hold a succulent and to spread the material and put it on it. However, there were still problems.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and reduces the labor of a clerk and saves labor, and at the same time, promptly responds to a large amount of consumption on the side of the customer. It is an object of the present invention to provide a food supply system capable of quickly supplying various foods.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the food supply system of the present invention uses various foods produced by a food-specific specifying procedure after a common procedure, and a part of them is used in the kitchen area. A food supply system that supplies food and drink to a customer by traveling on an endless circulation transportation path that passes through and circulates in the eating and drinking area, in the vicinity of the circulation transportation path that passes through the kitchen area, and perform a common procedure. A feature of the present invention is that a transporting device is provided for placing the food in the middle of manufacturing which has passed through it into a food and drink container and running the product endlessly. According to the food supply system of the present invention, in the kitchen area, not an empty food and drink container,
Since the in-process food that has undergone the common procedure before the food is specified is already endlessly run and stocked, the cook only has to make the work to specify the final food according to the customer's request. , Can supply various foods quickly.

In the above food supply system of the present invention, it is preferable that an empty food and drink container endless traveling transfer device is provided in the vicinity of the transfer device. In this way, even if a large amount of food and drink containers on which foods in the process of manufacturing which have gone through the common procedure are placed are consumed, from an empty food and drink container endless traveling transport device in the vicinity,
Foods in the process of manufacturing that have undergone the common procedure can be run endlessly and supplied to the transport device, so that it is possible to immediately cope with large consumption by the customer.

The food supply system of the present invention is an endless-circulating transfer device for various foods manufactured through a food-specific specifying procedure, at a position closest to the circulation transfer path side in the vicinity of the transfer device. It is preferable that is installed. By doing so, it is possible to wait for a time when the store is busy and put various foods manufactured through the food-specific specifying procedure on the transport device.

In the above food supply system of the present invention, an endlessly circulated conveying device for various foods produced through the above-mentioned food-specific specifying procedure is provided below the circulation conveying path in the kitchen area. Is preferred. In this way, various foods at the final stage can be temporarily stocked below the circulation transportation path in the kitchen area, so that a large amount of consumption on the customer side can be immediately dealt with.

[0013] In the food supply system of the present invention, the food in the process of manufacturing which has undergone the common procedure is a sushi in the process of manufacturing in which only the succulent grasped in the food and drink container is placed, It is preferable that the various foods produced are sushi pieces with various ingredients placed on a sushi roll. In this way, even if there are many kinds of sushi to be put on the sushi, it is possible to efficiently supply the served sushi according to the order of the customer without manpower.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram for explaining the flow of the food supply system of the present invention and a partially enlarged perspective view thereof, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a conveyor device for endlessly rotating sushi during production, and FIG. Is a schematic diagram for explaining the flow of a food supply system in another embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of three endlessly traveling transport devices in the kitchen.

The food supply system of the present invention will be described below by taking sushi as an example. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a partition wall for partitioning a kitchen area 2 and a customer area 3, which is an endless circulation type food and drink conveying device 4 made of a known crescent chain conveyor.
However, it is provided so as to run around both areas 2 and 3.

The circulation type food and drink conveying device 4 includes a straight conveying path 4a which circulates in the kitchen area 2 along the partition wall 1, and three rows of overhanging conveying paths 4b which project from the partition wall 1 toward the eating and drinking area 3 side. And is an E-shaped circulating conveyance path in plan view.

A food and drink counter 5 or a plurality of tables 6 are provided on both sides of each overhanging conveyance path 4b, and the kitchen area 2
The arranged sushi plates placed on the inner straight conveying path 4a are continuously supplied to each overhanging conveying path 4b.

An insertion port 7 for a used food and drink container is opened in the partition wall 1 at an intermediate portion between each of the overhanging conveyance paths 4b, and food and drink are eaten by the customer in each of the overhanging conveyance paths 4b. The used food and drink container left on the table 6 is carried to the insertion port 7 by the clerk, placed on the carrying surface of the collecting carrying device 8 that is running endlessly, and is automatically put into the cleaning tank 9. To be done.

On the side of the kitchen area 2 which is close to the straight conveying path 4a, sushi in the process of being manufactured (a food in the process of being manufactured through a common procedure) in which only the sushi grasped in the food and drink container is placed.
There is provided a transport device 11 in which the device 10 is run endlessly in the left-right direction. As shown in FIG. 2, the transfer device 11 includes a crescent chain conveyor and a horizontal transfer path 4a having a horizontal length substantially equal to the left and right lengths of a crescent chain conveyor on an upper portion of a horizontally long rectangular parallelepiped base 16 having casters 15 at four corners and an intermediate portion of a lower surface. It has a unit structure in which an oblong endless conveyance path 17 having the same length is formed, and is castable by a caster 15. On the inner side surface of the kitchen area 2 of the base 16, two storage recesses 18 for stocking spare food and drink containers and the like are provided.

A placing table 19 is attached to the side of the straight conveying path 4a in the kitchen area 2, and a sushi 1 in the process of manufacture in which only a sushi grasped in a food and drink container is placed under the placing table 19
A conveyor device 11 in which 0 is circulated is placed, and the material is put on the sushi 10 in the process of manufacture taken out from the conveyor device 11 and used as a workbench for making the final sushi product (various food products manufactured by the food-specific specifying procedure). Can be used.

In this way, the material is made up to the state before the material is placed (the state where there is a sneeze grasped on the plate), and the material is placed on the endless traveling transfer device 11 in the vicinity of the straight transfer path 4a. Since it is on standby, you can immediately grasp and supply the material that meets the customer's request.

Next, the flow of the food supply system in another embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4. An endless circulation type food and drink conveying device 4 composed of a known crescent chain conveyor, which divides the kitchen area 2 and the customer area 3 by the partition wall 1, is provided so as to run around both areas 2 and 3. It is the same as in the previous embodiment. The difference is that the carrier device 11 for endlessly rotating the food 11a (see FIG. 4) with the succulent on it held from the bottom of the mounting table 19 It was placed in the central part B of the drawer kitchen area 2.

The carrier device 11 in this embodiment is provided with an automatic gripping device 11 'on the side. At a position A in the back near the transport device 11, there is provided an endless running transport device 21 for transporting empty stacked food and drink containers 21a endlessly, and an empty washed food and drink container on the side of the transport device 21. There is a tableware 21 'for storing. In addition, at the position C, which is the closest to the straight transport path 4a side near the transport device 11, a transport device 31 for endlessly rotating the sushi 31a in the final supply form on which various kinds of material are placed is arranged. . Since it is convenient to supply the transport device 31 as it is closer to the straight transport path 4a, the transport device 31 may be placed under the mounting table 19.

FIG. 4 shows a partial perspective view in which three conveyors 11, 21 and 31 are provided side by side at the A, B and C positions. Conveyor 21 and conveyor 3 for endlessly sushi in the final supply form
1 is provided and the transport device 31 is located closer to the straight transport path 4a, so that a large number of orders can be immediately dealt with. In addition, since each transport device 11, 21, 31 runs endlessly, the increase and decrease can be seen at a glance, and if the system is to supply the decreased amount one by one, efficient food flow with a small number of people even when busy Can be realized. It is preferable that all of these three transfer devices 11, 21, and 31 are provided with casters as in the transfer device of the previous embodiment so that they can be easily transported.

As described above, in sushi, all the ingredients are prepared by the same procedure before the material is put on them. Therefore, if the ingredients are prepared up to this point and stocked in the endless traveling carrier 11, various kinds of material can be obtained. Even if you place an order, you can handle a large amount without any hassle. At this time, if the empty food and drink container is near the endless traveling transfer device 21, it is possible to immediately reproduce even if the transfer device 11 runs out of stock. In addition, if the popular sushi is placed in advance on the conveyor device 31 that runs endlessly during busy times, the clerk can orderly and receive large orders without running around in the kitchen. Since each transfer device has casters, when there are not many customers, stop the transfer device and place it in the corner of the kitchen, or place it under the table 19 to easily secure the space in the kitchen room. You can also

In the above embodiment, the transport devices 11, 21,
Although the crescent chain conveyor is used for 31, the present invention is not limited to this, and a roller conveyor or the like may be used. Also, in order to make various foods after obtaining the common procedure, sushi has been described as an example of performing the food-specific specification procedure.
For example, a common procedure is to put rice on a plate, and then a curry made by a food-specific specialization procedure in which chicken, croquettes, vegetable beef, and other various varieties of roux are added, buckwheat noodles on a bowl, and udon noodles. As a common procedure,
It goes without saying that the method can be applied to noodles and the like prepared by a food-specific procedure in which tempura, fried food, egg, fried dregs, etc. are then applied together with soup.

[0027]

According to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

(A) According to the invention described in claim 1, in the kitchen area, not the empty food and drink container but the food in the process of manufacturing which has undergone the common procedure before the food is specified is endlessly run. Since they are stocked, the cook only needs to perform the work of specifying the final food product according to the customer's request, and can quickly supply various food products.

(B) According to the second aspect of the invention, even if a large amount of food and drink containers on which foods in the process of manufacture which have undergone the common procedure are placed are consumed in a large amount, an empty food and drink container endless traveling transport device in the vicinity As a result, the food in the process of manufacturing which has undergone the common procedure can be endlessly circulated and supplied to the conveying device, so that it is possible to immediately cope with a large consumption by the customer.

(C) According to the invention described in claim 3, various foods manufactured through the food-specific specifying procedure can be placed on the carrier device and stand by in consideration of the busy hours of the store. it can.

(D) According to the invention as set forth in claim 4, since various kinds of foods at the final stage can be temporarily stocked below the food circulation transportation path in the kitchen area, it is possible to immediately cope with large consumption by the customer. it can

(E) According to the invention as set forth in claim 5, even if there is a lot of sushi to be put on the sushi, the sushi can be efficiently and quickly responded to the customer's order without manpower. Can be supplied.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram for explaining the flow of a food supply system of the present invention and a partially enlarged perspective view thereof.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a conveyor device for endlessly rotating sushi during manufacturing.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram for explaining the flow of a food supply system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of three endlessly rotated transport devices in a kitchen.

FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a food supply system previously invented by the applicant.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 partition 2 kitchen area 3 dining area 4 Circulating food and drink conveying device 4a Straight conveying path 4b Overhanging transport path 5 Food and drink counter 6 tables 7 insertion slot 8 Recovery transport device 9 washing tank 10 In-process foods that have undergone common procedures 11 Conveyor 11 'Automatic gripping device 12 Guide plate 15 casters 16 bases 17 Endless transport path 18 Storage recess 19 table 20 openings 21 Endless traveling transport device for food and drink containers 21 'tableware 31 Conveyor 31a Final supply form of sushi

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A variety of foods manufactured by a food-specific specification procedure after a common procedure is run on an endless circulation transport path, a portion of which passes through the kitchen area and circulates within the customer area. A food supply system for supplying food and drink to a food and drink container in the vicinity of the circulation transfer path that passes through the kitchen area. A food supply system characterized by the provision of. 2. The food supply system according to claim 1, wherein an empty food and drink container endless traveling transport device is provided adjacent to the transport device. 3. An endlessly circulated transport device for various foods produced through a food-specific specifying procedure is provided at a position closest to the circulation transport path side near the transport device. The food supply system according to 1 or 2. 4. The food product according to claim 3, wherein an endlessly circulated transfer device for various food products manufactured through the food product specific procedure is provided below the circulation transfer path in a kitchen area. Supply system. 5. The in-process food product that has undergone the common procedure,
2. A sushi product in the process of being prepared by simply placing a sushi grasped on a food and drink container, and various foods produced by the food-specific specifying procedure are sushi plates with various ingredients placed on the sashimi. 5. The food supply system according to any one of 4 to 4.