JP3567525B2 - POS system for restaurants - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
[Industrial applications]
The present invention relates to a POS system having a function of making an order entry in a restaurant and notifying a person in charge of ordering to a kitchen and catering staff.
[0002]
[Prior art]
2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a POS system for a restaurant of this type is configured such that when an order from a customer is input through a handy terminal or the like and the input information is input to a control device in the kitchen, a plurality of output devices connected to the control device are output. Among the devices, a cooking instruction is output from an output device corresponding to the ordered food. When the ordered food is completed, the receptionist carries the slip and the food from the output device to the customer.
[0003]
By the way, in this type of restaurant POS system, when outputting a cooking instruction or the like, the output device to be output is determined according to the output destination data registered in advance. The output destination data refers to data in which all menus provided in the store and output means corresponding to each menu are written. This output destination data is created each time the food menu is changed, distributed from the center, and updated.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the above-mentioned conventional POS system for restaurants, when updating from the center to all stores at once for changing the food menu, the food menu data can be shared among all stores, but each store has a different size. Since the number of output devices installed for each store is different, output destination data has to be created for each store.
[0005]
It is an object of the present invention to provide a POS system for a restaurant, which solves the above-mentioned problems and enables unification of output destination data.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
According to the present invention, input means for inputting a food menu ordered from a customer,
One or more output means arranged in a kitchen to output a cooking instruction and a serving instruction in response to the order content;
Having control means for controlling the processing of the input means and the output means,
The control means of each store,
Set the output destination presence / absence data in which the unique number of the output means provided in the own store and given a unique number is written as data,
The output means corresponding to the output of all dishes menus provided from the center and commonly provided in at least two or more stores and dishes and serving instructions based on each dish menu is based on output destination data written as the unique data. Controlling to output the cooking instruction and the serving instruction from the corresponding output means ,
When outputting the cooking instruction and the serving instruction based on the output destination data and the ordered cooking menu, search whether there is an output unit corresponding to the cooking menu, and output according to the cooking menu. If there is a means, it is output from the output means specified by the output destination data, and if there is no output means corresponding to the food menu, it is determined based on predetermined output means alternative data. A POS system for a restaurant characterized by controlling output from the output means is obtained.
[0007]
【Example】
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a POS system for a restaurant according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure in the POS system for restaurants according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing work processing procedures on the center side and the store side. FIG. 4A is a diagram showing an example of output destination data distributed from the center to each store, and FIG. 4B is a diagram showing output device presence / absence data and output data set in two stores of different sizes in advance. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of device replacement data.
[0008]
As shown in FIG. 1, the configuration of a POS system for a restaurant according to the present embodiment includes a center 1 that distributes output destination data to each store, an input device 2 in a large-scale store A, a control device 3, and four It is composed of output devices 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, an input device 2 ', a control device 3', and two output devices 4a ', 4b' in the small store B. The output device includes a printer, a display, a sound output device, a CRT display, and the like. The output destination data from the center 1 is distributed to the input devices 2 and 2 'installed in the large-scale store A and the small-scale store B, respectively. This output destination data is data in which an output destination (output device destination) corresponding to the cooking menu is written as shown in FIG.
[0009]
Each output device installed in the store is given a unique number. As shown in FIG. 4B, output destination presence / absence data and output device alternative data are set in the control devices 3 and 3 'in advance. The output destination presence / absence data is written with the unique number of the output device installed in the store as data. The output device alternative data includes a specific output device corresponding to a specific food menu written in the output destination data from the center 1, and data for changing the combination of the specific food menu and the output device. It is. Taking FIG. 4B as an example, in the output device alternative data of the store A, the output devices No. 1 to No. 4 are set, where No. 1 is No. 2, No. 2 is No. 1, and No. 3 is No. The number 2 and the number 4 are data to be changed to the number 3.
[0010]
Next, a processing procedure of the POS system for restaurants according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. Here, the large-scale store A in FIG. 1 will be described as an example. First, a customer service representative inputs a food menu ordered from a customer to the input device 2 (handy terminal or the like) (step 10). The customer service clerk who inputs the order details to the input device 2 outputs the input data to the control device 3 (POS controller) installed in the kitchen. The control device 3 that has received the input data is based on the output data (see FIG. 4A) distributed from the center and in which all the food menus provided in the store and the output device corresponding to each food menu are written. Then, control is performed so as to output a cooking instruction and a serving instruction from an output device corresponding to the input data (each cooking menu) (steps 20 and 30). When outputting the cooking instruction and the serving instruction based on the output destination data and the ordered cooking menu, the control means 3 searches whether or not there is an output device corresponding to each cooking menu (step 40, step 50). ). If there is an output device corresponding to the food menu, it is determined whether or not the output device specified by the output destination data is normal (step 60). If there is no output device corresponding to the cooking menu, an alternative designation search is performed using predetermined output device alternative data (see FIG. 4B) (step 55). Similarly, the process proceeds to step 60, and if not, the alternative designation search is performed again. Next, when the output device specified by the output destination data is normal, a cooking instruction and a serving instruction are output to the output devices 4a to 4d corresponding to the cooking menu (step 90). If the output device specified by the output destination data is abnormal, the replacement specification search is performed using the output device replacement function provided for the failure. If the replaced output device is normal, a cooking instruction and a serving instruction are output to the output device (step 90). It is displayed during the operation of the output device alternative function (step 80). If the replaced output device is abnormal, a replacement designation search is performed again using the output device replacement function.
[0011]
Next, the work processing procedure on the center side and the store side will be described with reference to FIG. The center first creates a cooking menu (step 101), and creates output destination data (step 102). Thereafter, the output destination data is distributed to the store. On the other hand, the store creates output destination presence / absence data (step 201) and creates output device alternative data (step 202). Note that the creation of the output destination presence / absence data and the output device substitute data is performed only for the first time and is not changed in principle. Next, the output destination data from the center side is received (step 203), and the previous output destination data is updated (step 204). Thereafter, sales processing is performed according to the processing procedure shown in FIG. 2 (step 205).
[0012]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, even when there is no output destination, since the output is performed from another specified output device, the output is always performed from an existing output device.
[0013]
Further, according to the present invention, by setting the output destination presence / absence data and the output device alternative data, the output destination data can be made identical for all stores, can be unified, and the processing efficiency can be improved. It is not necessary to change the output destination data for each store every time the menu of the dish is changed.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a POS system for a restaurant according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure in a POS system for a restaurant according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing work processing procedures on a center side and a store side.
FIG. 4A is a diagram showing an example of output destination data distributed from a center to each store, and FIG. 4B is an output device preset in two stores of different scales; FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of presence / absence data and output device alternative data.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Center 2, 2 'Input device 3, 3' Control device 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4a ', 4b' Output device

Claims (1)

An input means for inputting a food menu ordered by the customer;
One or more output means arranged in a kitchen to output a cooking instruction and a serving instruction in response to the order content;
Having control means for controlling the processing of the input means and the output means,
The control means of each store,
Set the output destination presence / absence data in which the unique number of the output means provided in the own store and given a unique number is written as data,
The output means corresponding to the output of all dishes menus provided from the center and commonly provided in at least two or more stores and dishes and serving instructions based on each dish menu is based on output destination data written as the unique data. Controlling to output the cooking instruction and the serving instruction from the corresponding output means ,
When outputting the cooking instruction and the serving instruction based on the output destination data and the ordered cooking menu, search whether there is an output unit corresponding to the cooking menu, and output according to the cooking menu. If there is a means, it is output from the output means specified by the output destination data, and if there is no output means corresponding to the food menu, it is determined based on predetermined output means alternative data. A POS system for a restaurant, wherein the POS system controls output from an output unit.

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