JPH1186137A - Output system for dutch treat result - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To show a per-head amount, in addition to a total amount to plural customers and accordingly to improve customer service by calculating the per- head amount and showing it on a customer display for a group of plural customers. SOLUTION: A total amount calculation processing part 1 adds together the prices of all commodities ordered for calculating a total amount including various expenses(tax amounts, service tax amounts, etc.). A per-head amount calculation processing part 2 divides the total amount calculated at the part 1 by the number of persons in a group (number of persons for Dutch treat) to calculate a per-head amount. An edit processing part 3 edits the data which are shown on a customer display with respect to a device of the output designation side. A customer display processing part 6 performs display on the customer display connected to a POS terminal, where the settlement of accounts is performed. Consequently, no calculation is required on the customer side so that customer service is improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a control method of output information to be presented to a customer when a payment is made in a store such as a restaurant business.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in stores in the restaurant business, etc.,
When you eat and drink in a group of multiple people and settle the eating and drinking fee,
The total amount of the entire group was presented to customers at checkout.
As another method, in order to speed up the settlement, a plurality of fee indicators are used to present the calculation result of the price to the customer for each content.

[0003] However, since the value of the amount presented to the customer is the total amount of the entire group or the total amount for each content, when a common product is eaten and consumed by a plurality of people, the price is paid in the form of a so-called split bill. When paying, the customer had to calculate and pay for one person from the total amount of the entire group.

[0004] In this case, if the total amount is large or the number of people is large, the calculation is troublesome and may cause an erroneous calculation.

[0005]

As described above, in the conventional payment processing method using a register (cash register) or a POS terminal provided in a store or the like, when a group of a plurality of people eat and drink, the payment of the food and drink is paid. In some cases, the customer must calculate the amount of money for one person, which may cause miscalculations. Therefore, the service to the customer is degraded, and the work efficiency, accuracy, and reliability of the payment processing business of stores and the like are reduced. Is impaired.

[0006] The reason is that in the conventional system,
This is because only the total amount is presented to the customer at the time of payment for the food and drink.

[0007] Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to present an amount for one person in addition to the total amount when presenting the amount of the price to the customer. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a system for improving service to customers.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention relates to a POS (Point) provided at a store or the like and provided with a customer-side display for displaying the settlement result of the payment amount.
In an Of Sales) terminal, there is provided a means for calculating a price for one person for a price charged to a group of a plurality of persons, and displaying the price on the customer side display.

Further, the present invention relates to a POS terminal provided at a store or the like and provided with a receipt printer for outputting the name, price, and price of a product purchased by a customer, which is charged to a group of a plurality of persons. Is characterized in that a price for one person is calculated and the information is output to a receipt sheet.

[0010] Further, the present invention relates to a
Before the payment amount is settled, information on the order slip to be paid to the customer is included in the cashier that performs the payment process, which outputs the product name, price, and price information that the customer has ordered on paper. There is provided a means for adding and outputting information calculated for a person.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. In the embodiment of the present invention, when calculating the total amount of money on the store side, the total amount is automatically calculated by dividing the total amount by the value of the number of visitors to the store (the number of people subject to split billing), and all items are calculated. The information after adding one person's price information to the order slip given when the customer is ready, the display information on the customer display of the POS terminal that performs payment settlement, or the receipt information Is presented.

More specifically, in the embodiment of the present invention, a total amount calculation processing means (FIG. 1) for calculating a subtotal of the price, calculating other expenses, and adding the calculated total to the subtotal. 1), one-person calculation processing means (2 in FIG. 1) for calculating the amount of money for one person, and editing processing means (3 in FIG. 1) for editing data corresponding to the output device. Order slip print processing means (4 in FIG. 1) for outputting order slips, or receipt print processing means (5 in FIG. 1) for performing POS terminal receipt print processing, as means for presenting the amount of money to the customer. And display means (6 in FIG. 1) for performing display processing on the POS display on the customer side.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when calculating the total amount of the price, the total amount is divided by the value of the number of people, and the amount for one person is calculated. By putting the price information of one person into the display information and receipt information on the customer's display unit of the POS terminal that performs payment and payment, and presenting the result after splitting to the customer,
This eliminates the need to perform calculations for individuals and improves service to customers.

[0014]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, in one embodiment of the present invention, a total price calculation processing unit 1 adds the prices of all ordered products and adds other costs (tax, service tax, etc.). A process for calculating the total amount of money is performed.

The one-person calculation processing unit 2 divides the value of the total amount of money, which is the output result of the total amount calculation processing unit 1, by the number of persons constituting the group (the number of persons to be split) to calculate the amount of one person. I do.

The edit processing unit 3 edits data to be printed on a receipt paper, an order slip, or data to be displayed on a customer display, corresponding to the output destination device.

The order slip print processing section 4 performs a printing process of an order slip output and printed by the ordering device 7.

The receipt print processing unit 5 performs a receipt print process on a receipt print printer connected to a POS terminal that performs payment of payment.

The customer-side display display processing section 6 performs a display process on a customer-side display connected to a POS terminal that performs payment of the price.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the operation of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to an ordering system will be described.

Normally, in an ordering system, when all the products ordered by a customer are completed, an order slip is printed out and handed over to the customer before payment for payment (or at a restaurant or the like, a table or the like where the customer is seated). Put on).

In the printout processing of this order slip,
The total price processing unit 1 calculates a subtotal by adding the prices of all products from the input information such as the product name / price (1 in FIG. 1).
01, 102, 103).

Based on this subtotal, other expenses (tax, service charge, etc.) are calculated, and the total is calculated by adding the subtotal and other expenses (104, 105 in FIG. 1). Then, the calculated information is passed to the calculation processing unit 2 for one person.

The one-person calculation processing unit 2 divides the calculated total amount by the visitor value to calculate the price for one person (FIG. 1).
201).

Next, the editing processing section 3 edits the purchased merchandise information / amount information / price information for one person according to the output format to the order slip (301 in FIG. 1) and converts the edited data into the order slip. It is passed to the print processing unit 4.

The order slip print processing section 4 performs a printing process on the order slip based on the edited data.

Next, the operation of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a POS terminal will be described with reference to FIG.

The information of the slip brought by the customer after eating and drinking
Input to the terminal.

Based on the input information, the total price processing unit 1 calculates a subtotal by adding the prices of all the products from the input information such as the product name / amount (101, 102 in FIG. 1).
103).

Based on the subtotal value, other expenses (tax,
Service fees, etc.), and adds the subtotal and other expenses to calculate the total amount (104, 105 in FIG. 1). The calculated information is passed to the calculation processing unit 2 for one person.

The one-person calculation processing unit 2 divides the calculated total amount by the number of visitors to calculate the price for one person (FIG. 1).
201).

Next, the editing processing unit 3 edits the purchase merchandise information / amount information / one-person price information into an output format to a receipt printer connected to the POS terminal and a customer connected to the POS terminal. Edit the output format to the side display (Fig. 1
301), the editing data is passed to the receipt print processing unit 5 and the customer display unit display processing unit 6.

The receipt print processing section 5 prints the edited data on a receipt printer. The customer-side display display processing unit 6 displays the edited data on the customer-side display.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention, and schematically shows a specific output image.

For example, when 20 people eat and drink in a group at an izakaya, conventionally, only information on the total price (78,280 yen) of the eaten and consumed products has been provided to the customer. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the total amount of food and drink and the price for one person are calculated, and "one person"
The payment amount is output to a receipt printout (see FIG. 2 (A)) or an order slip output (see FIG. 2 (B)).
By outputting the payment amount (including the remaining amount) of "one person" together with the total amount on the customer terminal display of the S terminal, it becomes possible to provide information to the customer, thereby improving the service and adjusting the payment. Business efficiency can be improved.

[0038]

As described above, according to the present invention,
This eliminates the need for the customer to calculate the amount paid by each of the customers who eat and drink in a group of a plurality of people, thereby improving the service to the customer and improving the efficiency of the work of the payment processing business. Play.

The reason for this is that, in the present invention, when calculating the price on the store side, the amount for one person is calculated, and the amount for one person is paid to the customer by means such as an order slip, receipt or customer display. It depends on presenting information.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the configuration and operation of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a specific example of one embodiment of the present invention, wherein (A) is a receipt slip, (B) is an order slip,
(C) is a figure which shows the example of a display of the display of a POS terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Total amount calculation processing part 2 One person calculation processing part 3 Editing processing part 4 Order slip printing processing part 5 Receipt printing processing part 6 Customer side display processing part 6 Ordering device 8 Keyboard or scanner input device of POS terminal

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A POS (Point O) provided at a store or the like and provided with a customer-side display for displaying a settlement result of a payment amount.
f Sales) A split billing result output method, wherein the terminal is provided with a means for calculating a charge for one person for a group made up of a plurality of persons and displaying the charge on the customer-side display. 2. A P which is provided at a store or the like and has a receipt printer for outputting the name, price, and price of a product purchased by a customer.
A split billing output method, wherein an OS terminal calculates a charge for one person with respect to a bill charged to a group of a plurality of persons, and outputs the information to a receipt sheet. 3. In a restaurant or the like, in order to efficiently perform a payment at a cash register that performs a payment process for outputting information on a product name, a price, and a price ordered by a customer to a paper sheet, the payment amount must be settled before payment. A split billing output method characterized by comprising means for adding information calculated for one person to information of an order slip to be passed to a customer and outputting the calculated information. 4. A total amount calculating means for calculating a subtotal of the price, further calculating various costs, and adding the various costs to the subtotal to calculate a total amount, and calculating an amount for one person from the total amount. Edit for editing the output data of the total amount calculating means and the one-person calculating means in a form corresponding to the calculating means for calculating, the order slip or the receipt printout device of the POS terminal, and the display device of the POS on the customer side. Processing means; and outputting to a customer a display device of an order slip or receipt paper or a POS terminal, a price for one of the persons to be split in a group consisting of a plurality of persons. .