System and method for matching patrons, servers, and restaurants within the food service industry

A system for matching patrons with servers and restaurants, comprising:

• a computing device comprising a memory, a processor, and a non-volatile data storage device;
• a portal comprising a first plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory, and operating on the processor, wherein the first plurality of programming instructions,
• when operating on the processor, causes the computing device to:
• receive patron data for a patron comprising patron attributes;
• receive server data for a plurality of servers, the server data comprising server attributes;
• receive restaurant data for a plurality of restaurants, the restaurant data comprising restaurant attributes;
• receive a match request from a patron's mobile device;
• match the patron to a a highest-associated server and a highest-associated restaurant using a profile mapping and recommendation engine;
• present the match results to the patron's mobile device;
• a profile mapping and recommendation engine comprising a second plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory, and operating on the processor, wherein the second plurality of programming instructions, when operating on the processor, causes the computing device to:
• generate a directed graph from the patron attributes, the server attributes, and the restaurant attributes, wherein:
• the patron, the plurality of servers, and the plurality of restaurants are represented as nodes of the directed graph;
• and
• the edges between the nodes are determined by a betweenness clustering algorithm wherein more attributes shared between any two nodes result in a shorter edge between those two nodes;
• select the highest-associated server being the server represented by the node with the shortest edge to the node representing the patron and the highest-associated restaurant being the restaurant represented by the node with the shortest edge to the node representing the highest-associated server;
• and
• send the highest-associated server and the highest-associated restaurant to the portal.