JPH05334563A - Sales management system for restaurant - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the need of a person in charge of a register and to speedily input a sales amount without a mistake by letting the mark read means of the register read a mark added to tableware, reading the amount of money of corresponding food and nutrition information from a memory part, summing and outputting the amount of money and a nutritive value. CONSTITUTION:Food is supplied by tableware 1 marked by a magnetic metallic piece 11. The reader 235 of the register 2 discriminates tableware 1, and the amount of money and information on the nutritive value, which are stored at every mark, are read from the memory part. CPU 21 calculates the total amount of money and the nutritive value, and the result is outputted to a display unit 232. Then, the requested amount of money is adjusted from the amount of money of an inserted card and the remained amount of money is written into the card by a card reader/writer as cash value information so as to terminate the sales processing of one person. Then, a registration content is preserved in a merchandise buffer. Then, the content is printed by a printer at every registration of one merchandise after a sales registration processing terminates.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sales management system in a group lunch facility such as an employee cafeteria or a restaurant.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, since cash registers such as sales are manually input, it is necessary to have a cashier full-time staff, and it is necessary to secure a space for this purpose. Also, since the input is manual, the processing speed is slow and there are individual differences.
There was a problem that a few input errors occurred.

Particularly, in a group lunch facility such as an employee cafeteria, the use is concentrated at a specific time such as lunch, but the use is sharply reduced after this time period. Therefore, many cashiers should be employed. Is not economical.

That is, it is said that if employees are hired according to the time when the usage is concentrated, the manpower is left over at other times, and if the hiring is suppressed to a low level, the response at the time of congestion becomes slow and the congestion is further spurred. There was a problem.

On the other hand, the improvement of the work environment has been reviewed as part of the measures for recruitment, and there has been a strong demand for the employee cafeteria, which has been said to be "bad, dirty, and crowded", to have a comfortable environment. The business of undertaking group lunches such as employee cafeterias is growing rapidly.

[0006]

Therefore, not only the cashier's full-time staff is not required, but also the sales amount can be entered promptly and without any mistake, which is a remarkable effect in alleviating the congestion before the cashier. There was a demand for the development of a sales system for a dining room that would bring out the best.

[0007]

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and is a sales management system comprising a table having markings and a register having a mark reading means. Sales management for cafeteria, characterized in that a register is provided with a memory unit for storing a price or the like for each mark, an arithmetic processing unit for performing arithmetic processing based on mark information, and an output means for outputting an arithmetic processing result. System,

The output means provides the sales management system for a cafeteria described above which outputs additional information such as calorie intake, nutritional balance and the like in addition to the amount information, thereby solving the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. is there.

[0009]

[Function] When the cafeteria user selects the tableware containing the desired dish, places it on the tray, and causes the mark reading means of the register to read the mark attached to the tableware, it responds from the information for each mark stored in the memory section. The amount of money and nutritional information of the food to be used are read out, the amount of money and nutritional value are summed in the arithmetic processing unit, and the output means outputs additional information such as nutritional value together with the amount of money.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The tableware 1 used in the present invention illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 3 has a main body made of a non-magnetic material such as plastic, earthenware and wood, and a magnetic metal piece 11 such as iron is formed in a predetermined pattern on the bottom. Since it is embedded and can be identified by a metal sensor regardless of the shape, the degree of freedom with respect to the shape is large. Further, since the magnetic metal piece 11 is completely protected by the member of the main body, it does not corrode and can be cleaned by a dishwasher.

Further, even if the tableware itself has the same shape,
Since the number of types can be increased by changing the arrangement pattern of the magnetic metal pieces 11, the mold investment can be kept low in the case of plastic molding. If the shape is exactly the same, the cafeteria worker cannot identify it, but in this case, it is sufficient to change the color and the pattern.

The register 2 used in the present invention illustrated in FIG. 4 has a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 21 which executes a control operation by a program, and this CPU 21 is connected to the CPU 21 via a bus line 22. ROM 24 storing a program for operation and R having a memory area
The AM 25 and the I / O interface 23 are connected.

Then, the I / O interface 23
Includes a keyboard 231, a display device 232, and a printer 23.
3, a card reader / writer 234, and a reading device 235 for reading marks on the tableware 1 are sequentially connected.

The keyboard 231 is used when the operator registers the price and nutritional value for each dish in the RAM 25, and is also used as appropriate when the dish content is changed.

The display unit 232 displays the amount of money processed by the CPU 21, the nutritional value, and the like, and a liquid crystal display, a plasma display, a cathode ray tube, an LED, or the like is used.

The printer 233 is controlled by the CPU 21 to issue a receipt to the customer of the cafeteria, and can print out the additional information such as nutritional allowance together with the amount of food.

The card reader / writer 234 has a CPU 21.
Under the control of the card, the card information including the monetary value information recorded on the card is read and the information to be recorded on the card is written.

The reading device 235 is a device which is controlled by the CPU 21 to read the mark on the tableware 1 on which food is prepared. In this case, the reading device 235 is a metal sensor (magnetic reader) capable of reading the mark on the magnetic metal piece 11. The read information via CP via I / O interface 23
Send to U21.

The operation program stored in the ROM 24 includes a program for performing sales registration processing and closing processing, a program for controlling the card reader / writer 234, and a program for transmitting information from the reading device 235. , And a program for supervising each of these programs, and the CPU 21 executes multitask processing.

In the RAM 25, as shown in FIG. 5, a sales registration file 25a for totaling registered products input from the reading device 235, a PLU (Price Look Up) which is a correspondence table of product codes, product names and sales amounts. ) Table 2
5b, buffer storage unit 25c, card amount memory 25
d, a read information buffer 25e, and the like.

The buffer storage section 25c stores a display buffer for storing data to be displayed on the display device 232, a print buffer for storing data to be printed by the printer 233, and data read from the commodity reading device 235. It includes a product buffer and an amount buffer that stores the amount to write to the card.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the structure of the register 2 having the above function.

In the figure, 234A is a card reader / writer 23.
The card insertion slot 234B of No. 4 is the card return slot, and the reader 235 composed of a non-contact type metal sensor (magnetic reader) is arranged below the scan window 26 composed of a non-magnetic material such as glass. .. In addition, display 2 on the front
Since there are 32 items, it is possible to purchase after confirming the product name, price, nutritional value, etc. of the purchased product.

In a large-scale dining room system, a plurality of registers 2 of the above-mentioned form are usually installed and used by being connected to a host computer (not shown) via a network.

Based on FIG. 8, a series of concrete operation examples of reading merchandise information, card control, and sales registration when purchasing using a prepaid card will be described.

First, in step S1, the CPU 21 determines whether or not the reading device 235 has read the merchandise. If the result is YES, the task of the sales registration processing program is mailed and activated, and in step S2, the PLU table of the RAM 25. The product based on the read information is read from 25b, the product is displayed on the display device 232 in step S3, and information such as the amount of money registered and the nutritional value is added to the product buffer 25c in step S4. Calculate the total amount and total nutritional value.

Next, when the products from the reading device 235 are exhausted in step S5, the amount charged to the customer is displayed on the display 232. Then, the card acceptance program is handed over to the card control program by e-mail, it is determined in step S7 whether or not the card is inserted, and in the case of Yes, the financial value information of the inserted card is read by the card reader / writer 2
It is read from 34 and displayed on the display 232 (step S8).

After that, in step S9, the charged amount is subtracted from the amount of the inserted card, the remaining amount is written into the card as financial value information by the card reader / writer 234 in step S10, and the sales of one person in step S11. The processing is terminated and the registered contents are stored in the product buffer 25c.

Further, the contents are printed on the printer 233 every time one product is registered in step S4, after the sales registration process in step S10 is completed. FIG. 9 is an example of this printing, and the printed paper is saved as evidence of the transaction with the customer.

A specific usage example will be described below. Figure 7
As described above, when the cafeteria user picks up the tableware 1 on which the desired dish is placed on the tray 4 and puts the tray 4 on the scan window 26 of the register 2, the reading device 235 including a metal sensor.
Operates to quickly identify the marks of all the dishes 1 placed on the tray 4, and the CPU 21 calculates the total amount and displays it on the display 232 (the nutritional value can also be displayed). For example, when a prepaid card 3 is inserted from 234A, the required amount of money is withdrawn from the card 3 and the balance is written, and the card return slot 2
Returned from 34B. During this time, since everything is processed mechanically, mistakes such as human input do not occur.

By the way, since the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the claims.

For example, the marking applied to the tableware 1 is shown in FIG.
As in 0, a well-known bar code (which may be a Carla code or the like) 12 itself is printed or affixed to the back surface of the tableware, and the reader 235 is also an optical type capable of identifying this.

Further, as illustrated in FIG. 11, when a well-known radio wave resonance type transmission circuit 13 is embedded in the bottom of the tableware 1 so that the reading device 235 can generate a predetermined electromagnetic field, The radio wave resonance type transmission circuit 13 resonates with the electromagnetic field to receive and identify the radio wave transmitted.

If an ID card is used as the card 3, the money is not settled at the time of sale, but information such as the sales amount and nutritional value is stored in the host computer and settled at a later date, for example, a payday. In addition, a contactless card that operates by radio waves is used.

When an IC card is used as the card 3, as in the case of an ID card, money is not settled at the time of sale, but information such as the sales amount and nutritional value is stored in the memory of the card, and at a later date, For example, paying on a payday.
Further, an IC coin or the like has the same structure.

The tray 4 may be of any type as long as it does not hinder the operation of the reading device 235. Therefore, if the tray 4 is magnetically discriminable, it may be entirely made of a non-magnetic substance and optically discriminated. For example, at least the bottom part should be transparent. Further, in the system in which the tableware 1 is placed directly on the scan window 26, the structure of the tray 4 is not limited at all.

The register 2 has a compact structure in which only the scan window 26 is omitted by omitting the protrusions on both the left and right sides.

The register 2 is installed between the dining area and the tableware lowering port, and is settled after meals or registered for sale.

The calorie intake, nutritional balance, and the like over a week, month, or year are printed out to give a user's health advice.

[0041]

As described above, according to the sales management system for a cafeteria according to the present invention, not only the cashier can be eliminated but the labor cost can be reduced, and the sales amount and the like can be input promptly and without error. Since it is possible to do so, it is extremely effective in alleviating the congestion in the employee cafeteria where usage is concentrated for a period of time. Furthermore, it has the advantage that a register can be installed if there is a space about the width of the tray, and it has a remarkable effect in group lunch facilities and restaurants such as employee cafeterias.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of tableware shown in a vertical section.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view of a mark shown in the AA cross section of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of another mark shown in the AA cross section of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a block configuration diagram of a register.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a memory unit.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a register.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing the entire system.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a control example.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of printout.

FIG. 10 is a bottom view of the tableware.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory view of another tableware shown in a vertical section.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Tableware 11 Magnetic Metal Piece 12 Bar Code 13 Radio Resonance Type Transmitting Circuit 2 Register 21 Central Processing Unit (CPU) 22 Bus Line 23 I / O Interface 231 Keyboard 232 Display 233 Printer 234 Card Reader / Writer 234A Card Insertion 234B Card Return port 235 Reader 24 ROM 25 RAM 26 Scan window 3 Card 4 Tray

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A sales management system comprising a table having markings and a register having mark reading means, wherein a memory unit for storing a price or the like for each mark in the register, and an arithmetic processing based on the mark information. A cafeteria sales management system comprising an arithmetic processing unit and an output means for outputting the arithmetic processing result. 2. The output means outputs additional information such as calorie intake and nutritional balance in addition to the amount information.
The sales management system for the cafeteria described.