JP2003263473A - Cooking system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To complete cooking by scheduled time even when the actual work is delayed. <P>SOLUTION: Cooking control computers 1A, 1B of cooking centers A, B transmit control data to various cooking appliances. The various cooking appliances perform automatic cooking based on the control data. In such a cooking system, the cooking control computers 1A, 1B make the operation schedule of the cooking center. The cooking control computers 1A, 1B transmit the control data required for the various cooking appliances based on the operation schedule. The various cooking appliances inform to the cooking control computers 1A, 1B by using a cooking start informing means when the start buttons of the appliances are pressed. The cooking control computer grasps the progress state of the cooking based on the information. The cooking control computer corrects the operation schedule when the delay more than specified occurs. <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 cooking system in a cooking center for supplying food to hospitals, restaurant chains and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, for meals for inpatients in a hospital, it is necessary to prepare a variety of menus according to the medical condition of each patient. Conventionally, however, each hospital has a kitchen where Cooked and served, or
I had to ask an outside food supply company to provide cooking.

However, as described above, it is inefficient and inefficient to perform cooking for each hospital because of facility and human resources. Therefore, in order to solve the problem, for example, as shown in Japanese Patent No. 2644187 (A47B 31/02), the following feeding system has been proposed.

That is, meals for patients at a plurality of hospitals are cooked at a cooking center, subjected to cook chill processing, and then packed together with tableware. The packed dishes are stored in a cool wagon or a serving cart, placed on a refrigerating vehicle for delivery, and delivered to each hospital.

In this case, the cooking center is equipped with various cooking equipment such as a brazing pan, a steam oven, and a kettle, and these are used to cook various menus. Cooking is done after accepting orders for menus and quantities from each hospital in advance. Then, while procuring the necessary ingredients for the received order, a work procedure manual for various cooking appliances of the day is prepared.

[0006] On the day, the worker puts the food in and out of various cooking appliances and turns on and off the various cooking appliances to cook, cools, and packs with the tableware based on the work procedure manual. . The packed dishes are stored in a catering cart or the like, placed on a refrigerating vehicle for delivery, and delivered to each hospital.

[0007] However, in the cooking center in such a lunch system, it is necessary to prepare a work procedure manual in response to the received order, which is very time-consuming, and based on the prepared work procedure manual. Therefore, the work becomes complicated because it is necessary to put the food in and out of the various cooking appliances and operate the various cooking appliances. Therefore, it is necessary for the worker to be skilled in the work, and a temporary worker such as a part-time worker cannot deal with it, and a rise in labor cost cannot be avoided.

[0008] Therefore, the present applicant has previously filed Japanese Patent Application No. 2001-26284.
As 6 the following cooking system was proposed. That is, in the cooking system, the cooking control computer
An order is received from the outside via a communication means, an operation schedule is created based on the received order, and control data is transmitted to various cooking appliances based on the operation schedule. Each cooking appliance that has received it cooks based on the received control data. At that time, each cooking appliance displays the following work content on the display of each cooking appliance based on the received control data.

In this way, it is not necessary to prepare a work procedure manual, the work is simplified, the worker does not necessarily need to be skilled in the work, and a temporary worker such as a part-time worker can handle it. .

[0010]

However, in such a cooking system, the actual work does not always proceed according to the schedule even if the operation schedule is created, and the work is delayed so that the delivery cannot be delivered in time. There was a problem that there is a fear.

An object of the present invention is to solve such a problem, that is, to enable cooking to be completed by a scheduled time even if an actual work is delayed.

[0012]

In order to solve the above problems, the cooking system according to claim 1 is a cooking system capable of automatic cooking based on control data, and cooking control capable of communicating with the various cooking devices. A cooking system comprising a computer, wherein the various cooking appliances have control data receiving means for receiving control data from the cooking control computer, cooking starting means for starting cooking, and cooking started by the cooking starting means. And a cooking start notifying means for notifying the cooking control computer that cooking is started when cooking is started, and cooking means for executing cooking based on the control data received by the receiving means.
The cooking control computer, an operation schedule creating unit that creates and holds an operating schedule of the cooking center, a control data transmitting unit that transmits necessary control data to each cooking appliance based on the operating schedule,
Schedule modifying means for modifying the operation schedule based on the notification from the cooking start notifying means of the various cooking appliances. This way,
Even if there is a delay in the actual work, cooking can be completed by the scheduled time.

Further, the cooking control computer of the cooking system according to a second aspect of the invention is characterized in that the arrangement of the work personnel is readjusted according to the correction of the operation schedule, and the work instruction is output based on the result. To do. By doing so, it is possible to smoothly relocate the work staff in accordance with the correction of the operation schedule.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention. Here, a case where there are two cooking centers in a certain area will be described. The cooking centers A and B have brazing pans 2A and 2B, steam ovens 3A and 3B, kettles 4A and 4B, and a fryer 5, respectively.
A, 5B, blast chillers 6A, 6B, tumble chillers 7A, 7B, defrosting chambers 8A, 8B, etc. are provided and cooking of various dishes is carried out.

Each cooking appliance is connected to the cooking control computer 1A, 1B by a communication line, and there may be a case where a plurality of cooking appliances of the same type are provided. The cooking control computers 1A and 1B hold a cooking control data table as shown in FIG. 3, for example, and each cooking appliance receives the control data extracted from the cooking control data table from the cooking control computers 1A and 1B. Cooking is controlled.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a control system in the cooking center. Each of the cooking appliances, such as the brazing pan 2A, the steam oven 3A, ..., Has a brazing pan control unit 20, a steam oven control unit 30, ...
・ The cooking control circuit 2 is provided by these control units.
Cooking is controlled by controlling a cooking means such as a heater via 2, 32, ....

At this time, the control data received from the cooking control computer 1A is stored in the memories 21, 31, ... And the control is performed based on the control data. Also,
Each cooking device such as the brazing pan 2A and the steam oven 3A is provided with start buttons 24 and 34 for starting cooking and indicators 26 and 36 for displaying data, which are input control circuits 23 and 33, respectively. Display control circuit 25, 3
Are connected to the brazing pan control unit 20, the steam oven control unit 30 ,.

The management computer 10 of the food supply company
Cooking control computers 1A and 1B of the cooking centers A and B, the hospital 11, and the employee cafeteria 1 via the communication line 15.
3, connected to a user computer such as the restaurant chain 14 Then, reservation orders from the hospital 11, employee cafeteria 13, restaurant chain 14, etc.
Accepted via 5. For example, a pre-order from the hospital 11 is made from the user computer 12.

At this time, which cooking center is in charge of cooking of the hospital 11, employee cafeteria 13, and restaurant chain 14 is determined in advance in consideration of the distance from the cooking center, etc. When an order is accepted, the cooking control computer 1 of the cooking center, for example, the cooking center A, which is in charge of the food of the orderer.
Send the contents of the order to A. Cooking control computer 1A
Then, when the contents of the order are received from the management computer 10, the cooking control data of all the menus included in the order are taken out from the cooking control data table of FIG. 3, and the usage time of each cooking appliance is calculated based on them. For example, the operation schedule of each cooking appliance as shown in FIG. 4 is created.

In that case, the operation schedule is created in the order in which the orders are received, and in the process, it is judged whether or not the contents of the received order can be incorporated into the operation schedule. Do not accept orders. By doing so, it is possible to determine whether or not the order can be dealt with at the stage of accepting the order, and it is possible to prevent the excessive order from being accepted.

Based on the operation schedule thus created, the control data is transmitted to each cooking appliance together with the respective operation time. Each cooking appliance receives the control data from the cooking control computer 1A, and accordingly displays the next work content and the cooking start time on the display. The worker puts food according to the display and presses the start buttons 24 and 34 to start cooking. After that, cooking is performed for a time determined by the control data. In this way, the work in the cooking center is simplified, and it becomes possible for temporary workers such as part-time workers to deal with it.

After cooking in such a manner, it is packed in a pack and subjected to a cook chill treatment. After storing those dishes in the serving carts 9A and 9B, the cooking control computer 1
A and 1B write the heating control data used when heating them in the serving carts 9A and 9B. After that, the serving carts 9A and 9B are delivered to the hospital 11, the employee cafeteria 13, the restaurant chain 14, etc. by a refrigerating vehicle for delivery.

At the hospital 11 etc., when the serving carts 9A, 9B are sent, they are moved to the serving room and the serving carts 9A, 9B are sent.
Set the power cable of. As a result, the serving cart 9
In A and 9B, heating is started based on the heating control data, and heating is performed for a required time.

By the way, in such a cooking system,
As mentioned above, the operation schedule is created to proceed with cooking at the cooking center, but even if the operation schedule is created, human work such as preparing food ingredients, blending, and portioning is indispensable for the actual work. Yes, as long as human intervention is involved, work does not always proceed on schedule. In some cases, the work may be delayed and it may be too late for the scheduled delivery time.

Therefore, in the cooking system of the present invention, the cooking control computers 1A,
By 1B, the operating state of each cooking appliance is monitored, and when the actual work progress is delayed from the operation schedule by a predetermined amount or more, the operation schedule can be rearranged to recover the delay. That is, the start buttons 24, 34 of each cooking appliance
When is pressed, the control unit such as the brazing pan control unit 20 and the steam oven control unit 30 notifies the cooking control computer 1A that the cooking has been started by the cooking start notification means. Then, the cooking control computer 1A determines that the cooking is completed after the time set for the cooking.

In this way, the cooking control computer 1
A can check how the actual work is progressing against the driving schedule. Then, when the delay of the actual work with respect to the operation schedule exceeds a predetermined value, the operation schedule of the cooking center is reworked so that the completion of cooking is in time. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, if the start of the first cooking (S ₁ ) in the afternoon in the first steam oven is later than the initial schedule shown in FIG. 4, the second cooking in the first steam oven is performed in the afternoon. The start of (S ₂ ) is delayed, and cooking is performed using a third steam oven that was initially not planned (S ₂ ).
₃ ) is incorporated to cover the delay.

Further, the arrangement of the work staff is adjusted so that the staff is assigned to the delayed part. Those adjustments are performed by the cooking control computer 1A, and the result is notified to the work personnel by printing out as a work instruction sheet or displaying on a screen.

In this way, even if a partial delay occurs in the actual work, the cooking can be completed by the scheduled time by re-establishing the operation schedule.

[0029]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it has the following effects. That is, in the cooking system according to claim 1, the various cooking appliances, when cooking is started, by the cooking start notification means,
The cooking control computer is notified that cooking has started, and the cooking control computer corrects the operation schedule based on the notification from the cooking start notification means of the various cooking appliances. As a result, cooking can be completed by the scheduled time even if the actual work is delayed.

Further, since the cooking control computer of the cooking system according to claim 2 re-adjusts the arrangement of the work staff in accordance with the correction of the operation schedule, and outputs the work instruction based on the result. It is possible to smoothly relocate workers according to the correction of the operation schedule.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a control system in the cooking center.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a cooking control data table.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation schedule of each cooking appliance.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a corrected driving schedule.

[Explanation of symbols]

1A, 1B ... Cooking control computer 9A, 9B ... Serving cart 10 ... Management computer 12 ... User computer 15 ... communication line

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Ken Aoki             2-5-3 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Prefecture             Within Yo Denki Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 4B018 ME14 MF04 MF05                 4B055 AA01 GA04 GB45 GC40

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A cooking system comprising various cooking appliances capable of automatic cooking based on control data and a cooking control computer capable of communicating with the various cooking appliances, wherein the various cooking appliances are controlled by the cooking control computer. Control data receiving means for receiving data, cooking starting means for starting cooking, and cooking means for executing cooking based on the control data received by the receiving means when cooking is started by the cooking starting means, And a cooking start notification means for notifying the cooking control computer of the start of cooking when the cooking is started, and the cooking control computer creates an operation schedule of the cooking center and holds the operation schedule. And a control data transmission for transmitting control data necessary for each cooking appliance based on the operation schedule. A cooking system comprising: a communication unit and a schedule correction unit that corrects the operation schedule based on a notification from a cooking start notification unit of the various cooking appliances. 2. The cooking system according to claim 1, wherein the cooking control computer re-adjusts the arrangement of the work personnel according to the correction of the operation schedule, and outputs a work instruction based on the result.