JP3059726B1 - Settlement method and device in restaurants - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to instantly calculate the price of a product dish, and to facilitate collection of a used product dish even when a paper dish is used. In a restaurant providing food and drink products, food and drink products are placed on a product plate (12) having a color (14) on the surface thereof according to type and / or price, recorded on a computer (34), and then provided. After stacking the eaten commodity dishes 12 on the placement section 16 of the apparatus main body 24 composed of the placing section 16, the sensor 18, and the moving arm 20, the commodity dish 1
After reading by the second sensor 18, the commodity tray 12 is moved by the moving arm 20, and the computer 34 compares the color 14 read by the sensor 18 with the pre-recorded data, and reduces the price of the commodity tray 12. It is characterized by calculating.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a restaurant,
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for automatically calculating and adjusting the fee for a food dish eaten by a customer, especially a disposable paper dish.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a restaurant, for example, a restaurant provided with a rotating dining table for transporting goods by a crescent chain above a base, a product is used when calculating the price of a dish served by a customer. Each type of sushi is placed on a dish with a different color, for example, a different color or pattern, and supplied on a rotating dining table. It has been known that after confirming the colors, the color is manually calculated, and the fee is presented to the customer or notified by voice. The customer paid the fee at a cash register (accounting).

[0003] In recent years, disposable paper tableware has been used at various restaurants, including restaurants that provide products using a rotary dining table, in order to reduce various costs such as personnel costs, equipment costs, and utility costs for washing dishes. in use.

[0004]

In the prior art, each time the employee returns, the employee checks the edgy dishes stacked on the table or the counter and calculates the fee, which takes time. , Customers have been waiting for a long time at a cash register (accounting).

[0005] Further, the paper plate, which is a disposable paper tableware, is lighter in weight than a commonly used plastic commodity plate, and is discarded as it is in a trash box after use. As a result, the volume of the garbage becomes excessively large, and it is often necessary to compress the volume of the garbage in the garbage bin with hands or feet to make it easier to put in the next garbage. Had been a problem.

Therefore, there is a strong need for a method and a device that allow an employee and a customer to calculate and confirm the price of a product dish instantly, and to facilitate the employee to collect the used product dish after the customer eats. Requested.

[0007] In order to address this demand, the present invention can calculate and confirm the price of a product dish instantly, and even if a disposable paper dish is used as the product dish, the product dish can be collected after use. It is an object of the present invention to provide an easy settlement method in a restaurant and an apparatus therefor.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a restaurant for providing food and drink products in a store, and a food and drink product for providing food and drink products in a store. And / or store the food and drink products at different rates and record them on a computer, provide this product dish, and place the stacked food dishes in a stacking section, placed above the stacked product dishes. The product tray that has been eaten is placed on the mounting portion of the device main body, which is connected to a computer and reads a color of the product tray, and a moving arm that moves the product trays stacked on the mounting portion one by one. After stacking, after the goods tray is read by the sensor, the read goods tray is moved by the moving arm, and the color of the goods tray read by this sensor, the kind or / and the charge data recorded in advance, The computer checks the number, type and / or charge of the dish, and calculates the charge. A storage case for stacking and storing the product trays is arranged, and after reading the product trays by the sensor, the product trays are moved to the storage case side via the moving arm to be stacked and stored in the storage case. Things.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A settlement apparatus in a restaurant according to the present invention provides a commodity plate 12 on which food (not shown) for eating and drinking is directly placed, and calculates a charge for the commodity plate 12 eaten. The main purpose of this is to make a payment by doing so, and will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS.

The commodity plate 12 used in the present embodiment is a disposable paper plate which has a color 14 at least on the outer peripheral surface thereof, has no thread bottom, and is disposable.

A loading section 16 for stacking and placing the eaten commodity dishes 12, a sensor 18 disposed above the stacked commodity dishes 12 and reading the color 14 of the commodity dishes 12, and a loading section 16. An apparatus main body 24 is provided which includes a moving arm 20 for moving the stacked product trays 12 one by one, and a storage case 22 disposed in close proximity to the mounting portion 16 for stacking and storing the product trays 12. I have.

In this embodiment, the mounting section 16 is mounted on the main body 24 of the apparatus.
The sensor 18 is disposed above the mounting portion 16, and the storage case 22 is disposed on the other side of the device main body 24 (right side in FIGS. 1 and 2). It is arranged in.

The moving arm 20 has a front inverted L-shaped arm body rotatable from the mounting portion 16 side to the storage case 22 side via a drive shaft 26 inside the apparatus body 22. The product tray 12 from the suction port 28 at the tip.
The suction hose 30 for sucking the suction is internally provided, and the suction hose 30 has a base end connected to a suction pump 32 inside the apparatus main body 24.
It is connected to.

The storage case 22 is a cylindrical body having an open top, and a spring (not shown in the drawings) which descends each time the used product tray 12 is transferred to align and store the used product trays 12 in a stacked manner. ) Is decorated.

The tip of the moving arm 20 on the suction port 28 side is lifted and lowered via a lifting mechanism (not shown) such as a cylinder in order to surely suck the uppermost product tray 12 of the stacked product trays 12. When the uppermost product tray 12 is sucked, it is lowered and sucked.
Move to

The color 14 of the commodity plate 12 is determined in advance by
In addition, the color 14 of the commodity dish 12 recorded by the sensor 18 and read by the sensor 18 is compared with the kind or / and charge data of the commodity dish 12 recorded in advance, and the number of the commodity dishes 12 and the kind or / and / A computer 34 for measuring the fee and calculating the fee is provided in connection with the sensor 18.

In this embodiment, the computer 34 is a personal computer, and also controls the lifting and lowering and moving of the moving arm 20, the suction operation from the suction port 28, and the stop (operation and stop of the suction pump 32).

In the figure, reference numeral 36 denotes a fee display unit, and reference numeral 38 denotes a register.

[0019] Using the settlement apparatus according to the present invention, a food and drink product is placed directly on a product dish and provided at a restaurant, for example, a restaurant provided with a rotary dining table for carrying the product cyclically upward. A method for paying out the product dish will be described in detail below.

First, the colors 14 of the commodity dish 12 are recorded on the computer 34 for each type and / or fee, and food and drink products corresponding to the type and / or the fee according to the color 14 are placed on the commodity dish 12. It is supplied on a rotating dining table and provided to customers.

Next, the customer takes the commodity dish 12 on which the desired food and drink is placed from the rotating eating and drinking table, eats the food and drink, and then the customer or employee goes to the place where the checkout device is installed. Carry the dish 12 that has been used.

Next, the eaten commodity dish 12 is placed in the apparatus main body 24.
Are sequentially stacked on the receiver 16.

Next, the sensor 14 reads the color 14 of the stacked commodity tray 12 at the top, and transmits this data to the computer 34.

Next, the uppermost commodity tray 12 read by the sensor 18 is sucked and supported by the suction port 28 of the moving arm 20 by operating the suction pump 32, and is moved (raised).

At this time, the product plate 12 sucked by the suction port 28 is moved up (moved) toward the sensor 18 by the elevating mechanism at the tip of the moving arm 20 on the suction port 28 side.

Next, the read commodity trays 12 are moved to the storage case 22 side of the apparatus main body 24 via the moving arm 20, and are sequentially stacked and stored in the storage case 22.

At this time, after the tip of the moving arm 20 is lowered by the elevating mechanism at the tip of the moving arm 20 on the suction port 28 side, the suction pump 3 is moved to the suction port 28 of the moving arm 20.
2 to stop the moving arm 20
The commodity tray 12 can be stored in the storage case 22 from the suction port 28 of the storage case 22.

Next, the commodity tray 1 is again moved by the moving arm 20.
2 are sequentially moved to the storage case 22 side, the colors 14 of all the dishes 12 stacked on the placing portion 16 are read by the sensor 18, and all of these data are transmitted to the computer 34.

Next, the computer 34 collates the transmitted data with the pre-recorded data for each type or price according to the color 14 of the commodity dish 12 and the sensor 18.
The number, type and / or charge of the commodity trays 12 read by are measured, and the charge is calculated.

The charge is displayed on the charge display section 36 of the apparatus main body 24 via the computer 34 and also on the register 38.

The charge can be notified to the employee by the charge display of the register 38, and the charge can be notified to the customer and the employee by the charge display of the charge display section 36.

Next, the customer pays this fee at a cash register (account).

For this reason, the customer can pay the fee without waiting at the cash register (accounting), and the customer does not have to wait at the cash register for a long time as in the related art.

After the specified number of product trays 12 are stored in the storage case 22, the employee takes out the storage case 22 and removes the used product tray 1 stored from the storage case 22.
The two groups can be discarded in a trash can or a garbage bag with the volume reduced sufficiently, and not only is there no work to compress the volume of garbage that has become unnecessarily large at the time of garbage disposal, Helps reduce the amount of garbage collected for environmental issues.

When the commodity tray 12 is not made of disposable paper but is made of a reusable plastic or ceramic commodity dish, the commodity dishes stacked and stored in the storage case 22 are stored in the storage case 22. Wash in units and prepare for next use.

In the present embodiment, the mechanism for supporting the product tray of the moving arm 20 is based on the suction force of the suction pump 32. However, a mechanism for holding the product trays 12 one by one and other mechanisms may not be employed. Be free.

The movable arm 20 is an inverted L-shaped arm in front, but arm members are arranged in a portal frame so as to be movable up, down, left and right, and the uppermost product tray 12 of the stacked product trays 12 is provided. Can be freely moved one by one.

Although the sensor 18 is installed above the mounting portion 16 of the apparatus main body 24, it may be located above the storage case 22 or in the moving section of the moving arm 20. After the support of the 20 product trays 12, the sensor 18 is controlled to read the color of the product tray 12.

Although the color 14 is applied to the outer peripheral portion of the surface of the commodity plate 12, it can be applied to the entire surface.
Further, by applying the color 14 to the back surface of the commodity dish 12, the color 14 of the commodity dish 12 can be read by the sensor 18 from below the commodity dish 12. In this case, the sensor 18 is attached to the upper surface of the apparatus main body 24. In addition to being able to dispose, the moving arm 20 can be moved to the sensor 18 side without moving the tip of the moving arm 20 up and down. In this case, the size of the apparatus can be reduced.

Further, even if the fee display section 36 is not provided, the defect that the user waits for a long time can be sufficiently solved by simply recording and displaying the information only on the computer 34 and notifying the customer of the fee at a cash register (accounting). Is done.

Although the storage case 22 has a structure in which the commodity dishes 12 can be stacked and accommodated, the commodity dishes 12 which have been stored may be simply discarded as trash boxes or garbage bags.

In this example, a food and drink product is directly placed on a product dish and provided in a shop provided with a rotary dining table, but the product is previously stored in a container such as bowls, noodles and the like. It is self-evident that a restaurant that is provided in a put state can be used by placing the product on the product plate 12 and providing the product.

[0043]

According to the settlement method and the apparatus in a restaurant according to the present invention, the color of the outer peripheral portion of the surface of the commodity dish is recorded in advance for each type and / or fee, and the eaten commodity dish is placed on the apparatus main body. After the product tray is read by the sensor, the product tray is moved one by one by the moving arm, and the computer compares the color data read by the sensor with the pre-recorded type and / or charge data. In addition, the number, type, and price of the product dishes are measured, and the fee is calculated. Therefore, the price of the product dish eaten by the customer can be instantly calculated and settled.

Further, the work load of calculating the fee individually by the employee is eliminated, and the burden on the employee in calculating the fee can be drastically reduced.

In addition, by disposing a storage case for stacking and storing commodity dishes close to the mounting portion of the apparatus main body, not only is there no need to individually dispose of the commodity dishes after the settlement is completed, Used storage plates can be used to sequentially stack and store used product dishes, and can be disposed of in a trash box or garbage bag in a state where the volume is sufficiently reduced. Not only is there no work to compress the volume of waste, but it also helps to reduce the amount of garbage collected for environmental reasons.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a checkout device in a restaurant according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 3 is a fragmentary front view of the same main part.

[Explanation of symbols]

 12 Product tray 14 Color 16 Placement section 18 Sensor 20 Moving arm 22 Device body 34 Computer

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A restaurant for providing food and drink products in a store, wherein a food and drink product is placed on a product plate (12) having a color (14) applied to its surface by type or / and charge, and a computer is provided. After recording on (34), this product dish (12)
And a stacking section for stacking and placing the eaten dish (12)
(16), arranged above the stacked commodity trays (12), connected to the computer (34), and the colors of the commodity trays (12) (14)
The reading section (16) of the apparatus main body (24), which comprises a sensor (18) for reading an image and a moving arm (20) for moving the product trays (12) stacked on the mounting section (16) one by one. , Ate dish (12)
After stacking the products, the product dish (12) is read by the sensor (18), and then the read product dish (12) is moved by the moving arm (20), and the product dish (12) read by the sensor (18) is read. Color (14)
And pre-recorded type or / and fee data;
A computer (34) checks the number, type and / or charge of the commodity dishes (12), and calculates the charge. 2. A storage case (22) for stacking and storing the commodity dishes (12) after being read by the sensor (18) is disposed in proximity to the mounting portion (16) of the apparatus body (24). After reading the dish (12) by (18), the dish (12) is moved to the moving arm (2).
(0) to the storage case (22) side, and
2. The payment method in a restaurant according to claim 1, wherein the payment method is stored in a stack. 3. A restaurant for providing food and drink products in a store, a product dish (12) having a color (14) applied to the surface thereof, and a placing section for stacking and placing the eaten product dish (12). (16), a sensor (18) arranged above the stacked product trays (12) and reading the color (14) of the product tray (12), and the product tray stacked on the receiver (16) Move arm (2) to move (12) one by one
0), and the color (1) of the product dish (12) in advance.
Record 4) by type or / and fee and use sensor (18)
Of the commodity dish (12) by comparing the read color (14) with the kind or / and charge data of the commodity dish (12) recorded in advance.
And a computer (34) for measuring the number and type or / and the fee and calculating the fee, and stacking the dish (12) eaten on the mounting portion (16) of the device body (24). After reading the product dish (12) with the sensor (18), the read product dish (12) is moved by the moving arm (20), and the color (14) of the product dish (12) of the sensor (18) is changed. A checkout device in a restaurant, wherein a computer (34) connected to the sensor (18) calculates a fee by reading. 4. A storage case (22) for stacking and storing the commodity dishes (12) after being read by the sensor (18) is disposed close to the mounting portion (16) of the apparatus main body (24). After reading the dish (12) by (18), the dish (12) is moved to the moving arm (2).
(0) to the storage case (22) side, and
4. The payment device in a restaurant according to claim 3, wherein the payment device is stacked and stored in 2).