KR102429532B1 - Apparatus and method for group food order using coupons - Google Patents

Abstract

A joint food ordering device and method using a coupon are disclosed. A joint food ordering method using a coupon includes the steps of: building an order information database by collecting order information generated by customers' food orders customer by customer; extracting good customers from among all customers with order history from the built order information database and creating a good customer group; distributing group purchase discount coupons to the best customer group to induce group purchase of the best customer group; when a group purchase request is received from a customer of the best customer group, requesting participation in group purchase from the remaining customers of the best customer group except for the customer who requested the group purchase; providing participation status information to customers of the best customer group according to the group purchase participation request; and when the number of customers who approve the participation according to the group purchase participation request meets the preset standard number of participation, processing a group food order of a group purchase requester and a plurality of participants for food to which the group purchase discount coupon is applied. According to the present invention, joint food ordering is induced.

Description

Apparatus and method for group food order using coupons}

The present invention relates to a joint food ordering apparatus and method using a coupon.

Conventionally, there has been a system for relaying food orders using an Internet website or a smartphone app. Since such a system brings the advantage of alleviating the inconvenience of a user's phone order or visiting order, more and more users are using it. However, the food ordering system provided in the past has only changed from an ordering method using a phone order or a door-to-door order to an ordering method using a smartphone app. can't accept Considering the social reality in which the number of single-person households is currently significantly increasing and various consumer goods are also sold to be suitable for one person, the food ordering system, which is practically necessary for users who use the food ordering system, is to order food for one person. It will be called a system equipped with the function that

On the other hand, a coupon is a kind of proof that guarantees benefits such as a discount on a product (or an intangible service) to the coupon holder. Coupons are usually distributed in the form of paper, and by presenting the coupons when trading products at the coupon issuer's store, you can receive a price discount or collect a plurality of coupons to receive some products for free. Coupon marketing is used as one of marketing policies for most business operators to attract customers, and is positioned as an essential business element in the catering industry in particular.

In addition, recently, a service in which an electronic coupon is issued to a smart phone and carried while presenting the electronic coupon stored in the smart phone at an affiliate store to enjoy various benefits has been commercialized and serviced. A representative example of this is a method of receiving a barcode-type coupon in the form of a mobile barcode through the wireless Internet, storing it in a smartphone, and using it at the right place at the right time.

Therefore, there is a need for a method in which one serving of food can be ordered using a coupon.

An object of the present invention is to provide a joint food ordering apparatus and method using a coupon for jointly inducing food ordering by providing a joint purchase discount coupon to food ordering customers.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a joint food ordering method using a coupon performed by a food ordering service providing apparatus is disclosed.

The joint food ordering method using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of collecting order information generated according to customers' food orders for each customer to build an order information database, and there is an order history from the built order information database Creating a superior customer group by extracting excellent customers from among all customers that When a request is received, requesting the remaining customers of the excellent customer group to participate in the group purchase except for the customer who requested the group purchase, and providing participation status information according to the group purchase participation request to the customers of the excellent customer group If the number of customers who approve participation according to the step and the group purchase participation request meets a preset reference number of participation, the group purchase requester and the plurality of participants process joint food orders for food to which the group purchase discount coupon is applied including the steps of

The generating of the excellent customer group may include extracting, as the excellent customers, customers who satisfy a preset number of excellent orders or an excellent order amount from among all the customers.

In the step of creating the excellent customer group, analyzing the order propensity by calculating the order patterns of the extracted excellent customers, and grouping excellent customers with high similarity in the order pattern according to the analyzed order propensity, and creating the excellent customer group.

The step of analyzing the order propensity includes calculating the order pattern by deriving a preset number of top preferred foods for each season, weather, or day of the week using the order information database, calculating the order pattern, and creating the excellent customer group creates a group purchase discount coupon that can be used only by the excellent customer group for the derived top preferred food.

In the step of distributing the group purchase discount coupon, discount information including a discount rate according to the group food order and an additional discount rate for a reservation order is notified to customers of the excellent customer group, and the group purchase discount coupon is In order to promote the excellence of the material quality of the applied food, link information of the homepage of the material supply company is included in the group purchase discount coupon and distributed to the customers of the excellent customer group.

In the step of processing the group food order, according to the group purchase participation request and the participation approval from the group purchase requester and the participant through the requestor terminal for transmitting the group purchase participation request and a plurality of participant terminals for transmitting the participation approval , by generating the group order information according to the group purchase discount coupon, and transmitting the generated group order information to the store terminal to the food store, thereby processing the group food order.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a joint food ordering device using a coupon is disclosed.

A joint food ordering apparatus using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a memory for storing instructions and a processor for executing the instructions, wherein the instruction collects order information generated according to customers' food orders for each customer. to construct an order information database, extracting excellent customers from all customers with order histories from the built order information database to create an excellent customer group, and inducing group purchase of the excellent customer group. distributing a group purchase discount coupon to a group; when a group purchase request is received from a customer of the excellent customer group, requesting the remaining customers of the excellent customer group to participate in the group purchase, except for the customer who requested the group purchase; providing participation status information according to the group purchase participation request to customers of the excellent customer group; Performs a joint food ordering method including processing a joint food order of a group purchase requester and a plurality of participants with respect to the food to which the coupon is applied.

The joint food ordering apparatus and method using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention provides a joint purchase discount coupon to food ordering customers to induce a joint food order, thereby allowing customers to jointly order a small amount of food. In terms of sales, it can increase sales.

1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a system environment in which a joint food ordering method using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention can be implemented.
Figure 2 is a flowchart showing a joint food ordering method using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram schematically illustrating the configuration of a joint food ordering device using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As used herein, the singular expression includes the plural expression unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In this specification, terms such as “consisting of” or “comprising” should not be construed as necessarily including all of the various components or various steps described in the specification, some of which components or some steps are It should be construed that it may not include, or may further include additional components or steps. In addition, terms such as "...unit" and "module" described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which may be implemented as hardware or software, or a combination of hardware and software. .

Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a system environment in which a joint food ordering method using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention can be implemented.

Referring to FIG. 1 , a joint food ordering apparatus 100 using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a requestor terminal 200 , a plurality of participant terminals 300 , and a store terminal 400 for transmitting and receiving various data through a network. ) can be associated with

Here, the requestor terminal 200 and the plurality of participant terminals 300 are devices of a customer who wants to order food at a food store, and may be, for example, a smartphone in which a food ordering application for the customer is installed. And, the store terminal 400 is a device installed in a food store for management of the food store, such as ordering and paying for food, for example, store management in which a food ordering application for a store including a POS terminal is installed. It may be a terminal.

In particular, the requestor terminal 200 is a terminal of a customer who requests a group purchase for a specific food from among customers to a food store, and the plurality of participant terminals 300 are terminals of customers participating in the group purchase requested by the requester terminal 200 . this can be

On the other hand, the joint food ordering apparatus 100 using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented through a network connectable server. Such a server may be interlocked with the store terminal 400 installed in the food store for management of the food store.

For example, the server is installed in a specific food store and performs a function of managing the user's order for the corresponding food store, registering various food stores, and managing the user's orders for the registered food stores. It may be performed, and may be configured to include a joint food ordering device 100 using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the present specification, a server is a computing device for performing a joint food ordering method using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention, and may be one or two or more physical entities. When the server is divided into a plurality of physical entities and implemented, the management subject of each physical entity may be different from each other. The server may include a database that means a functional and structural combination of software and hardware for storing information corresponding to each database, and the database may be implemented as at least one table, and retrieve, store, and A separate DBMS (Database Management System) for managing may be further included. In addition, it can be implemented in various ways such as a linked-list, a tree, and a relational database, and includes all data storage media and data structures that can store information corresponding to the database.

The joint food ordering apparatus 100 using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention, as described above, collects order information for each customer according to the food orders of a plurality of customers, builds an order information database, and uses the built order information database. Thus, by extracting the excellent customer group and distributing the group purchase discount coupon to the extracted excellent customer group, it is possible to induce a joint food order for a specific food.

Then, the joint food ordering device 100 receives a group purchase request from the requester terminal 200, which is a terminal of a group purchase requester who wants to request a group purchase among customers included in the excellent customer group, the group purchase requester in the excellent customer group A group purchase participation request is transmitted to the plurality of participant terminals 300 that are terminals of the remaining customers except for .

Thereafter, when the number of group purchase participants meets a preset reference number of participation, the joint food ordering device 100 processes a joint food order of the group purchase requester and the plurality of participants with respect to the corresponding food.

The joint food ordering method using the coupon performed by the joint food ordering apparatus 100 using the coupon according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described later in detail with reference to FIG. 2 .

2 is a flowchart illustrating a joint food ordering method using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the present specification, the joint food ordering device 100 communicates with the requestor terminal 200 and participant terminal 300, which are terminals of excellent customers, and the store terminal 400, which is a terminal installed in a food store, thereby providing excellent customers and food. You can exchange information with the store manager. Therefore, in the following, for convenience of understanding and explanation, the joint food ordering device 100 communicates with the requestor terminal 200 , the participant terminal 300 , and the store terminal 300 to provide information with excellent customers and food stores. Assume that it is the same as the exchange of .

In step S210, the joint food ordering device 100 builds an order information database by collecting order information generated according to customers' food orders for each customer. For example, the food ordering device 100 may build an order information database by arranging the collected order information for each customer according to the date.

In step S220, the joint food ordering device 100 creates an excellent customer group by extracting excellent customers from all customers with order histories from the built order information database.

That is, the joint food ordering apparatus 100 may extract customers who satisfy a preset excellent order number or excellent order amount among all customers as excellent customers. At this time, the joint food ordering device 100 calculates the order patterns of the extracted excellent customers, analyzes the ordering tendency, and groups the excellent customers according to the analyzed order tendency to create at least one excellent customer group. have. The joint food ordering device 100 may group excellent customers with high similarity in order patterns into excellent customer groups.

For example, the joint food ordering device 100 uses the order information database arranged according to the date, by deriving a preset number of top preferred foods for each season, weather, or day of the week, thereby calculating the order pattern of each customer. can Here, the upper preferred food may be set as food to which the group purchase discount coupon is applied. The joint food ordering device 100 may generate a group purchase discount coupon that can be used only by a corresponding excellent customer group with respect to the derived upper preferred food.

In step S230, the joint food ordering device 100 distributes the group purchase discount coupon to the excellent customer group in order to induce the group purchase for a preset number of upper preferred foods of the excellent customer group. For example, the joint food ordering device 100 may transmit an electronic coupon in the form of a barcode to the terminal of the excellent customer group.

In this case, the joint food ordering device 100 may advertise the advantages of the joint food ordering in order to more strongly induce the joint food ordering.

For example, the joint food ordering device 100 may announce discount information including a discount rate according to a joint food order and an additional discount rate for a reservation order. In addition, the joint food ordering device 100 transmits to the terminal of the excellent customer group by including the link information of the homepage of the material supply company in the joint purchase discount coupon in order to promote the excellence of the material quality of the food to which the group purchase discount coupon is applied. can

On the other hand, the joint food ordering device 100 distributes the group purchase discount coupon in accordance with the announced generation time before distribution of the group purchase discount coupon to the excellent customer group, that is, after announcing the generation time of the group purchase discount coupon in advance. may be

For example, the group food ordering device 100 may distribute a group purchase discount coupon when a group purchase is requested from a customer of the excellent customer group with respect to a preset number of upper preferred foods of the excellent customer group.

In step S240, the joint food ordering device 100 determines whether a group purchase request is received from at least one of the customers of the excellent customer group.

For example, any one customer of the excellent customer group uses the group purchase discount coupon provided for at least one food among the preset number of top preferred foods of the excellent customer group to use the group food ordering device 100 for group food. You can request an order.

When a group purchase request is received from at least one of the customers of the excellent customer group, the joint food ordering device 100 may open a joint food order for the excellent customer group according to the distributed group purchase discount coupon. .

In step S250 , when a group purchase request is received from a customer of the excellent customer group, the joint food ordering device 100 requests the remaining customers of the excellent customer group to participate in the group purchase except for the customer who requested the group purchase.

For example, the remaining customers of the excellent customer group may participate in the joint food order case by transmitting a participation approval to the joint food ordering device 100 according to the reception of the request to participate in the group purchase.

In step S260, the joint food ordering device 100 provides the participation status information according to the group purchase participation request to the customers of the excellent customer group.

That is, the joint food ordering device 100 may provide participation status information including the number of customers who approve participation in response to a request to participate in a group purchase.

In step S270, the joint food ordering device 100 determines whether the number of customers who approve participation meets a preset reference number of participation.

In step S280, the joint food ordering device 100 processes the joint food order of the group purchase requester and the plurality of participants for the food to which the group purchase discount coupon is applied, when the number of customers who approve the participation meets the reference number of participation do.

For example, the joint food ordering device 100 is a joint purchase according to a group purchase discount coupon according to a group purchase participation request and participation approval from a group purchase requester and a participant through the requester terminal 200 and a plurality of participant terminals 300 . By generating order information and transmitting the generated joint order information to the store terminal 400 to the food store, it is possible to process the joint food order.

3 is a diagram schematically illustrating the configuration of a joint food ordering device using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3 , the joint food ordering apparatus 100 using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a processor 110 , a memory 120 , a communication unit 130 , and an interface unit 140 .

The processor 110 may be a CPU or a semiconductor device that executes processing instructions stored in the memory 120 .

Memory 120 may include various types of volatile or non-volatile storage media. For example, the memory 120 may include ROM, RAM, or the like.

For example, the memory 120 may store instructions for performing a joint food ordering method using a coupon according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The communication unit 130 is a means for transmitting and receiving data with other devices through a communication network.

The interface unit 140 may include a network interface and a user interface for accessing a network.

On the other hand, the components of the above-described embodiment can be easily grasped from a process point of view. That is, each component may be identified as a respective process. In addition, the process of the above-described embodiment can be easily understood from the point of view of the components of the apparatus.

In addition, the technical contents described above may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be specially designed and configured for the embodiments, or may be known and available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, and magnetic such as floppy disks. - includes magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine language codes such as those generated by a compiler, but also high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. A hardware device may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the embodiments, and vice versa.

The above-described embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed for the purpose of illustration, and various modifications, changes, and additions will be possible within the spirit and scope of the present invention by those skilled in the art having ordinary knowledge of the present invention, and such modifications, changes and additions should be regarded as belonging to the following claims.

100: common food ordering device
110: processor
120: memory
130: communication department
140: interface unit
200: requester terminal
300: participant terminal
400: store terminal

Claims (7)

In the joint food ordering method using a coupon performed by the food ordering service providing device,
building an order information database by collecting order information generated according to customers' food orders for each customer;
extracting, as excellent customers, from the built-up order information database, customers who satisfy a preset excellent order number or excellent order amount among all customers with order histories;
analyzing the order propensity by calculating the order patterns of the extracted excellent customers by deriving a preset number of top preferred foods for each season, weather, or day by using the order information database;
creating an excellent customer group by grouping excellent customers having a high degree of similarity in the order pattern according to the analyzed order propensity;
generating a group purchase discount coupon usable only by the excellent customer group with respect to the derived upper preferred food;
notifying the generation time of the group purchase discount coupon in advance;
including link information of a homepage of a material supply company in the group purchase discount coupon in order to promote the excellence of the material quality of the food to which the group purchase discount coupon is applied;
distributing the group purchase discount coupon to the excellent customer group according to the announced occurrence time in order to induce the group purchase of the excellent customer group;
notifying discount information including a discount rate according to the joint food order and an additional discount rate for a reservation order to customers of the excellent customer group;
when a group purchase request is received from a customer of the excellent customer group, requesting the remaining customers of the excellent customer group to participate in the group purchase, except for the customer who requested the group purchase;
providing participation status information according to the group purchase participation request to customers of the excellent customer group; and
When the number of customers who approve participation according to the group purchase participation request meets a preset reference number of participation, processing a group food order of a group purchase requester and a plurality of participants with respect to the food to which the group purchase discount coupon is applied; A joint food ordering method using a coupon comprising a.
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The step of processing the joint food order,
According to the group purchase participation request and the participation approval from the group purchase requester and the participant through the requestor terminal transmitting the group purchase participation request and the plurality of participant terminals transmitting the participation approval, the group according to the group purchase discount coupon A joint food ordering method using a coupon, characterized in that the joint food order is processed by generating order information, transmitting the generated joint order information to a store terminal and transmitting the joint order information to a food store.
In the joint food ordering device using a coupon,
memory to store instructions; and
A processor that executes the instructions,
The command is
building an order information database by collecting order information generated according to customers' food orders for each customer;
extracting, as excellent customers, from the built-up order information database, customers who satisfy a preset excellent order number or excellent order amount among all customers with order histories;
analyzing the order propensity by calculating the order patterns of the extracted excellent customers by deriving a preset number of top preferred foods for each season, weather, or day by using the order information database;
creating an excellent customer group by grouping excellent customers having a high degree of similarity in the order pattern according to the analyzed order propensity;
generating a group purchase discount coupon usable only by the excellent customer group with respect to the derived upper preferred food;
notifying the generation time of the group purchase discount coupon in advance;
including link information of a homepage of a material supply company in the group purchase discount coupon in order to promote the excellence of the material quality of the food to which the group purchase discount coupon is applied;
distributing the group purchase discount coupon to the excellent customer group according to the announced occurrence time in order to induce the group purchase of the excellent customer group;
notifying discount information including a discount rate according to the joint food order and an additional discount rate for a reservation order to customers of the excellent customer group;
when a group purchase request is received from a customer of the excellent customer group, requesting the remaining customers of the excellent customer group to participate in the group purchase, except for the customer who requested the group purchase;
providing participation status information according to the group purchase participation request to customers of the excellent customer group; and
When the number of customers who approve participation according to the group purchase participation request meets a preset reference number of participation, processing a group food order of a group purchase requester and a plurality of participants with respect to the food to which the group purchase discount coupon is applied; A joint food ordering device using a coupon, characterized in that performing a joint food ordering method comprising a.

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