JPS61289492A - Sales data transmitting/receiving system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a sales data transmission/reception system for, for example, a restaurant system.

[Background of the invention]

In recent years, to promote efficiency in restaurant operations.

The ECR (7ft cash register) installed in the restaurant has been systemized and can send and receive data to and from multiple ECRs. In this case, the order data input on the slave side is transmitted to the master side every time it is registered, so a huge amount of data is transmitted to the master side for the entire system.

As a result, the master side has to be highly functional (multi-job), and the software processing has become complicated and expensive.

[Purpose of the invention]

This invention was made against the background of the above-mentioned circumstances, and its purpose is to reduce the amount of data transmitted, increase line idle time, and shorten processing time on the master side. It is an object of the present invention to provide a sales data transmission/reception method that can achieve the above-mentioned functions and ensure data processing without increasing functionality.

[Key points of the invention]

In a sales data transmission/reception method that allows sales data to be sent and received between an electronic device and multiple terminals, the sales data input corresponding to the type specification is totaled to obtain subtotal data for each type, and the subtotal data for each type is calculated. The subtotal data of each type is transmitted to the electronic device, and the subtotal data of each type transmitted from the terminal is stored, and the subtotal data of that type is transmitted to the specified terminal in response to the lending request of each type from the terminal. When lending by sending to a device, the subtotal data for each type lent from the electronic device to the terminal prohibits the lending even if there is a request for lending of that type from another terminal, and the electronic device The main point is that payment, inspection, and setting processing are prohibited while data is being lent to a terminal.

[Configuration of Example]

Hereinafter, the present invention will be specifically described based on an embodiment shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a restaurant system to which the present invention is applied. This restaurant system includes one cashier ECRI, which is mainly used by the cashier, and multiple servers ECRI, which are mainly used by waiters and waitresses who take orders from customers.
and is provided. The cashier ECR1, the server E-CR2, . . . are equipped with slip printers 1A, 2A, . . . for printing slips. The carrier ECR1 and server ECR2 are connected to a system controller 3 and a computer server 4, respectively. A plurality of kitchen printers 5 installed in the kitchen are connected to the system controller 3. This controller 3 functions as a distribution controller for the kitchen printer 5..., and at the same time, the terminal machine converts the subtotal data for each slip from the cashier ECR1, server ECF12, etc. into a slip number. A memory is provided for corresponding storage. Further, a personal computer 6 is connected to the computer server 4. The computer server 4 functions as a distribution controller for the server ECR2 .

Next, the configuration of the cashier ECR1 will be explained in detail with reference to FIG. 2 for each department key, 3 for various function keys, 4 for cash key, and 5 for main station transfer end key.
6 for new registration key, 7 for cashier's PIN number key
, FLU (registration by product classification), 8 for the PLU-specific key, and 9 for the additional order registration key. Table number person Kaki K
An IO1 subtotal key Kll is provided. Furthermore, a mode switch MS is provided on the keyboard to designate "setting", "registration", "power supply 0FFJ, r inspection", and "accounting" modes. Thus, the key manual signals output from the input unit 11 corresponding to the operation keys and the mode designation signals output according to each switching position of the mode switch MS are input to the CPU (central processing circuit) 12. .

The CPU 12 performs input processing, registration processing, printing processing, display processing,
Executes data transmission processing, etc. In addition to various registers, main station flag register MF, calculation unit AL, control unit CT
The structure has the following. Then, the CPU 12 uses RA
By exchanging data with M (random access memory) 13, total sales data can be accumulated by time period and by person in charge. It sends print data, controls the opening operation of the drawer 16, and transmits and receives data to and from the transmission section 17. RAM13 is CPU12
The data writing and reading operations are controlled under the control of the RAM 13, and this RAM 13 stores time period accounting memory Ml that stores cumulative sales data for each time period, and stores cumulative sales data for each person in charge. Total memory M2 for each responsible person, tax total memory M3 that stores the total tax amount, total total memory M4 that stores the total sales data, correction total memory M5 that stores the correction total, and extra memory that stores the total surcharge and discount. A total memory M6 is provided.

FIG. 3 shows a specific configuration of the server ECR2. The server ECR2 differs from the cashier ECRl in that it does not have a drawer, and is basically configured in the same way as the cashier ECR1. Components are indicated by the same reference numerals, and their explanations will be omitted. Here, in the RAM 13 of the server ECR2, there are Ma, PLU, which stores the total sales data by department.
A memory Mb for storing total sales data by group, a memory Mc for storing total sales data for groups, and a memory Md for storing total sales data for each person are provided.

FIG. 4 shows the configuration of the system controller 3.

This system controller 3 is provided with a CPU 21, and this CPU 21 has a 4I having a calculation section and a control section.
It has become a reality. The CPU 21 sends and receives data to and from the ECR as each terminal via the transmission unit 22, and also sends and receives data to and from a slip-by-slip memory 23 that stores subtotal data and the like for each slip. This slip-by-slip memory 23 includes a rental flag memory m1. Machine number memory m2, slip number memory m3, server person number memory m4, table number memory m5,
A subtotal memory m6 is provided. Here, the lending flag memory m1 stores a lending flag for making lending to another terminal wait until lending to one terminal is completed when lending requests for the same slip are received from a plurality of ECRs. The CPU 21 also exchanges data with the kitchen printer transfer buffer 24.
is used to store data to be distributed to each kitchen printer 5..., including kitchen printer number memory nil, sales quantity memory m12, and character memory m.
13, server number memory m14, table number memory m15. Slip number memory m16, time memory m17
, a machine number memory m18 are provided.

[Operation of the embodiment]

Next, the present invention will be explained in detail based on FIGS. 5 to 7. Here, in FIGS. 5 to 7, the part A surrounded by the broken line is an example of key operations performed on the terminal, the part B is the terminal processing operation associated with the key operation, and the part C is from the terminal to the system controller 3. , or system controller 3
Transfer data from to the terminal, D is system controller 3
This shows the processing operation. FIG. 5 shows a new registration operation, FIG. 6 shows a final registration operation, and FIG. 7 shows a master station movement processing operation.

First, the new registration operation will be explained based on FIG. New registration is mainly performed on the server ECR2, and the key operation procedure in this case is as shown in A in Figure 5. First, the person in charge enters the unique PIN number r456J and presses the PIN input key. The table number "3" is next to be operated.
” and operate the table number key. and,
Enter the slip number r10230J aal and operate the new registration key. By operating this new registration key, the data sending operation is executed and the transfer data sent to the system controller 3 includes the person in charge number, slip number, table number, machine number of the terminal, and the new registration It becomes a code. Upon receiving this transfer data, the system controller 3 starts executing the flow shown in D-1 in FIG. That is, the document-specific memory 23 is searched based on the received document number (step si). As a result, if the corresponding document number has already been registered, an error occurs (step 32.S3). If it is not registered, the process proceeds to step S4, where the slip number is written in the empty page of the slip-specific memory 23, and the corresponding lending flag in the slip-specific memory 23 is turned ON, after which the data sending operation is executed ( In step 55.S6), the data to be transferred is transmitted to the terminal corresponding to the corresponding machine number, and the slip number is transferred to this terminal. Note that when error data is sent to the terminal as a result of step S3, the terminal executes error handling in accordance with the error data. Also, when the terminal device receives the slip number from the system controller 3 while executing the flow shown in B-1 in FIG. 5, the terminal device asks whether it is a new registration? After determining that the preparation is complete, the data obtained in the flow process of B-1 in FIG. 5 is sent to the system controller 3. Here, the flowchart B-1 in FIG. 5 will be explained. When the terminal performs a FLU-specific registration operation according to the item ordered by the customer during new registration, step Sll is first executed to perform FLU-specific registration, and then sales data is added to the subtotal amount ( Step 512) Then, in step 513, it is determined whether or not the subtotal key has been operated, indicating the end of registration.

If the registration is not completed, the above operation step 511, S1
2 is repeated every time a FLU-specific key is operated. Then, when the end of registration is detected in step 513, the subtotal data etc. obtained thereby are transmitted (step 5
14) At this time, the terminal transmits data in response to the system controller 3, and the data in this case is the slip number and the new registration subtotal data. When the system controller 3 receives this data, it executes the operation according to the flow of D-2 in FIG. R too,
The invoice-specific memory 23 is searched in accordance with the received invoice number, and subtotal data is written in the invoice-specific memory 23 corresponding to the searched invoice number (step 521).
), and the lending flag corresponding to this slip number is O.
is FF (step 322), therefore, the lending flag remains OFF while new registration is being performed with the terminal.
It has been N.

Note that in this embodiment, additional registration can be performed not only from the newly registered terminal but also from other terminals. In this case, the slip number and compact data are transferred to the terminal that has requested additional registration, the compact data is updated, and the updated compact data is sent again to the system controller 3 and stored therein. While data is being lent out in such an additional registration, the small data of the slip is prohibited from being lent out to the terminal, as in the case of new registration.

When the small key is operated at the end of new registration or additional registration, the order data for each registered product is transmitted to the system controller 3 and written into the kitchen printer transfer buffer 24. The data written in this buffer 24 is then read out under the control of the CPU 21, sent to the kitchen printer 5 corresponding to the item, and printed. FIG. 8 shows an example of printing by the kitchen printer 5.
1M person's name, table number, machine number, product name, quantity, and time are printed.

Next, the tightening registration operation will be explained with reference to FIG.

When the cash key or the like is finally operated according to the operating procedure shown in FIG. 6, data corresponding to the key operation is transmitted to the system controller 3, and the flow shown in FIG. 6 D-1 is started. First, the processes corresponding to steps S1 and S2 shown in the above-mentioned new registration are executed, and as a result, if the corresponding slip number is not stored in the slip-specific memory 23, an error occurs (steps S31.332.5).
33) Here, when the corresponding slip number is searched, it is checked whether the lending flag corresponding to the slip number is turned on (step 534). For example, it will be in a standby state until the lending is finished, or once the lending is finished, the memory for each slip 23
Read the subtotal data corresponding to the corresponding slip number from
Next, after turning on the lending flag, data is sent (steps S35.53B, 537).

As a result, the terminal executes the flow shown in FIG. 6B-1. That is, after closing processing, that is, taxable amount calculation, printing processing, etc., is executed based on the transmitted subtotal data, the subtotal data is cleared, and the slip number is transmitted to the system controller 3 together with this cleared data. (Steps S41 to S343) Upon receiving this data, the system controller 3 executes the flow shown in FIG. 6 D-2. As a result,
Subtotal data and lending flags are cleared (Step 3)
51.352).

Next, 7th U/! Operations in inspection, payment, and setting modes will be explained according to J. Note that the system controller 3 normally functions as a main station.

Here, when performing an inspection or payment, the mode switch MS is set to "inspection" or "payment" on the terminal, and then the cash key is operated. Further, when setting data, after setting the mode switch MS to the "setting" position, various setting keys are operated, for example, if the preset data is a unit price, the unit price key is operated. As a result, the terminal sends a master station movement request to the system controller 3, and the system controller 3 starts executing the flow D-1 in FIG. 7 in response. First of all,
It is checked whether all lending flags corresponding to each slip number are turned on (step 561). Here, 1
If the lending flag is ON at any time and the device is being lent to the terminal, the device waits until the lending is completed. However, when it is detected that all loans have been completed,
Sends master station movement data to the terminal that has made the master station movement request (step 562), then in step S63
The main station flag is turned off. Then, the terminal waits until the master station is returned, and when the master station is returned, the master station flag is turned ON (steps 564 and 565). In response, the terminal executes the flow shown in FIG. 7B-1.

That is, when the main station movement data is sent from the system controller 3, the main station flag is turned ON (step 57).
1) As a result, the main station moves from the system controller 3 to the terminal, and this terminal operates as the main station from now on. Then, in the next step S72, various processes as the master station, such as data collection, data setting, etc., are completed, and when the master station move end key is operated on the terminal, The master station data return data is sent and given to the system controller 3, and then the master station flag is turned OFF (step S73.374).In this way, the master station movement at the time of payment, inspection, and setting is performed from the terminal. However, in this case, the system controller 3 is prohibited from moving the main station while data is being lent. After the main station moves to the terminal device, the main station moves back to the system controller 3 again by pressing the main station move end key to return to the normal state.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and can be modified and applied in various ways without departing from the scope of the present invention. That is, although the above embodiment is applied to a restaurant system, it is of course applicable to other systems as well.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained in detail above, this invention provides electronic al! In a sales data transmission/reception method that allows sales data to be sent and received between a device and multiple terminals, the sales data input corresponding to the type specification is totaled to obtain subtotal data for each type. The subtotal data of each type is transmitted to the electronic device, and the subtotal data of each type transmitted from the terminal is stored, and the subtotal data of that type is specified in response to the lending request of each type from the terminal. When sending and lending to a terminal, the subtotal data for each type lent from the electronic device to the terminal is prohibited even if there is a request for lending of that type from another terminal, and the subtotal data is lent from the electronic device to the terminal. Since payment, inspection, and setting processing are prohibited while data is being lent to a terminal, the amount of data sent can be reduced and the idle time of the line can be increased, and the processing time on the master side can be saved. This has the advantage of being able to shorten the time and ensure data processing without increasing functionality.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a restaurant system to which the present invention is applied. Figure 2 is a block circuit diagram of the cashier ECR shown in Figure 1, Figure 3 is a block circuit diagram of the server ECR shown in Figure 1, and Figure 4 is a block circuit diagram of the system controller shown in Figure 1. , FIGS. 5 to 7 are diagrams for explaining various operations of the present invention. FIG. 5 shows the new registration process, and FIG. 6 shows the new registration process.
The figure shows the closing registration process, and Figure 7 shows the master station movement process.
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of printing by a kitchen printer. 1... Cashier ECR, 2... Server ECR, 3... System controller, 11
...Input section, 12...CPU, 17.
...Transmission section. 21...CPU, 22...Transmission section, 2
3... Memory for each slip. Patent applicant Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Figure 8 Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a sales data transmission/reception method capable of transmitting/receiving sales data between an electronic device and a plurality of terminals, the sales data input in accordance with the type specification is totaled to obtain a subtotal for each type. means for obtaining data and transmitting the subtotal data for each type to the electronic device; and storing the subtotal data for each type transmitted from the terminal, and responding to lending requests for each type from the terminal. A means for transmitting the subtotal data of the type to a designated terminal to lend it, and a means for transmitting the subtotal data of each type lent to the terminal from the electronic device to a request for lending of that type from another terminal. and means for prohibiting payment, inspection, and setting processing while data is being lent from the electronic device to the terminal. Sales data transmission/reception method.