KR20100019812A - System for furnishing location-information by using the ordering unit in a restaurant - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A location information providing server using an ordering terminal in a restaurant is provided to obtain convenience and to enable amicable dialogue of the location confirmation by providing location information about restaurant to the terminal of users coming to restaurant. CONSTITUTION: An order terminal(10) comprises a location information providing menu of restaurants. If the location information providing menu is selected, the order terminal indicates an input unit inputting the telephone number. A restaurant server(20) comprises location data of restaurants. If the telephone number is inputted from the order terminal, the restaurant server transmits the telephone number and positional information data to a telecom company server(30). A terminal(40) receives positional information data from the communication corporation server. The location information is indicated.

Description

System for furnishing location-information by using the ordering unit in a restaurant}

The present invention relates to a system for providing location information using an ordering terminal of a restaurant, and more particularly, a terminal of a user who finds a location of a restaurant using an ordering terminal provided at a table of a restaurant and used when a user orders food. It relates to a location information providing system using an ordering terminal of a restaurant for providing.

In general, in large restaurants, restaurants, and Korean restaurants, when a son visits, the employee guides the customer to the table and writes down the menu items that the customer orders on a separate order form. Only when brought to the counter and the kitchen, the menu ordered by the customer can be cooked and served.

That is, in the past, a large number of restaurants have to write a menu ordered by a customer in a handbook, so the work is very troublesome, and work efficiency is deteriorated.

In order to solve this problem, a computerized POS system was also provided, and when the contents of the order form provided by the employee were entered into the POS system, the order was automatically output to the terminal installed in the kitchen, and the chef saw the output. In order to prepare the food, this also caused the employee to write down the menu ordered by the customer by hand, there was a problem that the work load is increased and work efficiency is reduced.

The wireless ordering system using the portable wireless ordering terminal shown in FIG. 1 as a conventional technology for solving such a problem is an ordering terminal for carrying out a wireless transmission by inputting a menu ordered by a customer while carrying by an employee, and transmitted from the ordering terminal. Employees of large food establishments are configured with a POS that stores menu information and outputs it to a printer installed in the kitchen so that food can be cooked, and a management device that accesses the POS via the Internet to understand sales status. You do not have to manually fill out the order menu of the customer manually, and the employee's transmission menu is automatically printed and printed out in the kitchen to reduce the amount of work for the employee. Also check the sales status via the Internet It provides a wireless ordering system using a portable wireless ordering terminal for management.

However, the above-described prior art also has a disadvantage in that the amount of work is consumed because the employee has to go to the table where the customer is located and take an order using the order terminal.

Thus, looking at the other prior art shown in Figure 2, after searching for information on the cooking order menu to order the dishes to the kitchen and at the same time to send the ordered list of dishes to the counter, and the list of dishes received price Counter server for closing the order and receiving the order history from the order terminal and display the details and the kitchen terminal to inform the hall and the counter when cooking is finished, the kitchen terminal to inform the end of cooking and drink or water from the order terminal , A handkerchief, toilet paper, etc., consisting of a hall terminal that receives the order history, the counter, kitchen, hall and order with a table equipped with an ordering terminal, characterized in that the network by using a wired, wireless LAN with each table Systems are known.

As described above, various ordering systems of a communication method using a terminal are known in order to promote convenience of customers and employees in restaurants. However, such various types of order terminals are focused only on ordering food and requesting necessary items, and convenience for other purposes is not constituted at all.

One of the conveniences that can be provided to the user here is that restaurants that users who visit restaurants typically meet or set up appointments and navigate to places, and if they do not know the location of the appointment, they call the first user who arrives. It is frequent to check the location of restaurants (restaurants) repeatedly. In this case, there is a problem that people who arrive at the meeting do not have a smooth conversation and some people have to talk frequently. Therefore, there is a need for a method that can efficiently provide location information to a user who needs to check location first.

The present invention for solving the above problems is that the first user arrives at a restaurant through the food order terminal provided on the table to provide the user with the location information of the restaurant to the user terminal to find the convenience of the location confirmation and smooth conversation The aim is to achieve this.

The present invention for achieving the above object, when the user inputs the order details using the order terminal provided in the table of the restaurant order terminal of the restaurant receiving the order from the order terminal receives the order from the restaurant server In the location providing system using, the ordering terminal is provided with a location information providing menu of the restaurant, an input unit for inputting a telephone number to be received when selecting the location information providing menu is displayed, the restaurant server is the location of the restaurant Information data, when receiving the user's phone number to receive the location information of the restaurant from the ordering terminal and transmits the user's phone number and location information data of the restaurant, and the user's phone number and location information from the restaurant server Provide location information to the user's telephone number. From the communication company server and receiving the communication company server providing location information of a restaurant it is characterized in that comprises a user terminal for displaying the location information.

According to a preferred feature of the present invention, the restaurant server is characterized in that when the request from the ordering terminal to provide the corresponding menu information of the restaurant to the communication company server.

According to another preferred feature of the present invention, the location information data is characterized in that it is in text form or map form.

According to another preferred feature of the present invention, the restaurant server, when there is a request for providing location information and menu information from the ordering terminal to transmit a specific telephone number corresponding to the calling number to the communication company server, the location information The provided user terminal checks the menu in the menu information, and then transmits the selected menu to the specific telephone number again.

The present invention configured and acted as described above has the hassle of having to check the phone number by providing the location information in text form or map form to the terminal of the user who needs the location information through the order terminal provided in the table of the restaurant. There is no advantage in that the user can provide a location by conveniently providing a telephone call through the order terminal provided on the table without any hassle explaining the location.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a system for providing location information using an order terminal of a restaurant according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

3 is a configuration diagram of a location providing system using an order terminal of a restaurant according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a perspective view schematically showing a table of a restaurant equipped with an order terminal according to the present invention, and FIG. 5 is an order terminal according to the present invention. 6 to 7 are screens showing a location information providing menu of FIG. 6 to FIG. 7 are screens showing various embodiments in which location information of a user terminal provided with location information is displayed. FIG.

Location information providing system using the order terminal of the restaurant according to the present invention, as shown in Figure 3 is provided on the table 50, the order terminal 10 for requesting food order and location information provision, and from the order terminal Restaurant server 20 for receiving the order history and location information providing request, a communication company server 30 receives the location information providing request from the restaurant server and a user terminal 40 provided with the location information from the communication company server Characterized in that the configuration.

Order terminal 10 is provided in the table of the restaurant as shown in Figure 4, ordering food and various items (water, towels, toilet paper, ashtrays, cups, etc.) or call the employee and the main technical gist of the present invention To provide location information.

The order terminal 10 is provided with a display for outputting a menu of food information and location information, and has a button for a user to click on various menus. Alternatively, the display unit is configured in a touch screen manner, which is more convenient for users. Provide manipulation.

In addition, in order to solve the boredom waiting after ordering food at the service level, a simple entertainment function, web browser software for DMB viewing, Internet search, and network-enabled functions may be further configured.

Therefore, the user is provided with menus such as food order, entertainment, DMB viewing, internet, location information, etc. in the main menu, and can select and use a desired menu.

5 is a screen showing the location information providing menu of the ordering terminal according to the present invention, when the location information providing menu is selected, a key input unit (unsigned) and a telephone for inputting a user's telephone number to transmit location information. Input number appears. The user to be provided with the location information may input a plurality, and after inputting all of them, the user selects the confirmation button and requests the location information to be provided. If there is a request for providing location information, the unique number of the ordering terminal is also transmitted. The unique number of the ordering terminal corresponds to the table number.

In addition, in the process of providing location information, whether to provide menu information is additionally selected to determine whether to provide menu information to a user who receives the location information.

The restaurant server 20 is formed by forming a wireless or wired network with the order terminal 10 and receives a request for providing an order history or location information input by a user. At this time, if a request for providing location information is received with a unique terminal number.

The restaurant server 20 displays the order history of each table or the payment amount according to the order history, the cooking progress of the ordered food, the number of tables, and the like through a display unit (monitor) separately provided with all information of the restaurant. In the present invention, in the present invention, the restaurant server 20 is involved in all the above-mentioned information, but if necessary, the restaurant server 20 is provided with a hall server, a kitchen server, a counter server and the like for each hall employee, The counter, the employee, the kitchen employee to monitor the hall server involved in the hall server to monitor the completed food in the kitchen and delivers to the table, the kitchen employee involved in the kitchen server is the order terminal (10) The counter that checks the order history received through the monitoring and performs the cooking for cooking, and participates in the counter server Eopwon is that you can check your order history and to the payment amount.

In the present invention, each such configuration is carried out through the restaurant server 20, and if necessary, can be configured in each position as mentioned above.

When the restaurant server 20 receives a request for providing location information through the order terminal 10, the restaurant server 20 transmits a telephone number input through the order terminal and location information corresponding to the restaurant to the communication company server 30 to be described later. In addition, when requested to provide menu information, the menu information is also transmitted.

On the other hand, it provides a specific phone number combined with a unique number provided from the order terminal 10 and the phone number of the restaurant. The specific telephone number corresponds to the calling number when providing location information to the user terminal described later. For example, if the table number is 100 and the restaurant's telephone number is 02-123-4567, a specific telephone number "02-123-4567100" is generated and provided.

The location information of the restaurant is stored in a database (not shown) of the restaurant server 20, and provided with the telephone number of the user terminal 40 to receive the location information when the request is received by the order terminal 10. give.

Location information can be provided by text and map methods. In the case of the text system, information on the subway exit number, street, building name, business name, etc. can be provided by text message (SMS). Provide directions through.

The communication company server 30 receives the location information and the phone number from the restaurant server 20 and is connected through the Internet or a wireless communication network to provide the location information to the user terminal 40 corresponding to the phone number. In the case of Korea, the telecommunications server 30 is SK Telecom, KTF, LG Telecom, which is representative of providing the location information to the terminal through these telecommunications server (30).

6 to 7 illustrate screens of a terminal according to various embodiments in which location information of a user terminal provided with location information is displayed.

In general, the user terminal 40 is preferably a mobile phone that users carry, and is a terminal carried by a user who visits a restaurant. The user terminal 40 is provided with location information through the communication company server 30, and the user checks the location information. Find your destination. In this case, when the menu information is provided together, the user selects a desired menu through the menu information and transmits it back to the calling number, that is, the specific telephone number. Therefore, the menu selected by the user is transmitted to the order terminal 10 via the communication company server 30 and the restaurant server 20, and the user who confirms this may pre-order food of the user who does not arrive at the restaurant.

Next, a flowchart of a system for providing location information using an order terminal of a restaurant according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 8.

Among the users who have selected the restaurant as an appointment place, the user who correctly grasps the location and first arrives may order the desired menu to the restaurant server 20 through the order terminal 10. If there are users who do not arrive, select the location information providing menu of the order terminal 10 and then input telephone numbers (mobile phone numbers) of users who do not arrive. And it decides whether to provide menu information together and selects accordingly.

After completing the phone number input, click OK to send a request for providing menu information and location information together with the order terminal unique number and the entered phone number to the restaurant server 20.

The restaurant server 20, which has received the request, first generates a specific phone number through a unique number and transmits menu information, location information, and a phone number input by the user to the communication company server 30.

The communication company server 30 transmits a text message to the user terminal 40 corresponding to the telephone number by using the received specific telephone number as the calling number.

When the user carrying the user terminal 40 provided with the location information and the menu information goes to a restaurant through the location information, checks the menu information, selects a desired menu, and sends it again to a specific phone number corresponding to the calling number. Displayed in the order terminal via the communication server server and the restaurant server, a user who arrives at the restaurant that confirmed this order can be quickly provided to the user who did not arrive to order the menu immediately after arrival.

The present invention configured and operated as described above provides convenience between the employee and the user (order) using the order terminal provided in the table, and iteratively provides the location information conveniently with the order terminal to the user who needs the location information. There is an effect that can ease the inconvenience caused by personal calls and facilitate the smooth conversation of the meeting.

While the invention has been described and illustrated in connection with a preferred embodiment for illustrating the principles of the invention, the invention is not limited to the construction and operation as shown and described.

Rather, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that many changes and modifications to the present invention are possible without departing from the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Therefore, all such appropriate changes and modifications and equivalents should be considered to be within the scope of the present invention.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an ordering system using an ordering terminal according to the prior art,

2 is a configuration diagram of an ordering system using a table provided with an ordering terminal according to another prior art;

3 is a configuration diagram of a location providing system using an order terminal of a restaurant according to the present invention;

4 is a perspective view schematically showing a table of a restaurant equipped with an ordering terminal according to the present invention;

5 is a screen showing the position information providing menu of the order terminal according to the present invention,

6 to 7 are screens showing various embodiments in which location information of a user terminal provided with location information is displayed;

8 is a flowchart of providing location information according to the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: Order terminal

20: restaurant server

30: carrier server

40: user terminal

50: table

Claims (4)

When the user inputs the order details by using the order terminal provided in the table of the restaurant, there is a location providing system using the order terminal of the restaurant which receives the order from the order server and receives the order from the order terminal. The order terminal is provided with a location information providing menu of the restaurant, an input unit for inputting a telephone number to be received when selecting the location information providing menu is displayed, The restaurant server is provided with the location information data of the restaurant, when receiving the user's phone number to receive the location information of the restaurant from the ordering terminal transmits the user's phone number and location information data of the restaurant, A telecommunication company server receiving user telephone number and location information from the restaurant server and providing location information to the user telephone number; And And a user terminal receiving the location information of the restaurant from the communication company server and displaying the location information of the restaurant. The method of claim 1, wherein the restaurant server, If there is a request from the ordering terminal location information providing system using the ordering terminal of the restaurant, characterized in that also provides the corresponding menu information of the restaurant to the communication company server. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information data, Location information providing system using the order terminal of the restaurant, characterized in that the text form or map form. The method of claim 1, wherein the restaurant server, When there is a request for providing location information and menu information from the order terminal, and transmits a specific telephone number corresponding to the calling number to the communication company server, The location information providing system using the ordering terminal of the restaurant, characterized in that the user terminal receiving the location information checks the menu in the menu information and then retransmits the selected menu to the specific phone number.

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