Restaurant management using network with customer-operated computing devices
OwnerTravis Tripp, Mark Vaszaryinventors
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Abstract
The present invention provides restaurant management method in which a customer operates a computing device to make requests. A waiter can fulfill the request on the next visit to the customer's table, instead of having to visit the table first to obtain the request and requiring a second visit to fulfill the request.
Claims42
A restaurant management method comprising:
- a customer communicating a request to at least a first staff person of a restaurant by operating a customer computing device that communicates at least partially wirelessly with a first staff computing device operated by said first staff person, said request requiring a staff person of said restaurant to bring some thing to a location at of said customer, said customer computing device and said first staff computing device belonging to a restaurant computing network;
- said first staff person or another staff person of said restaurant obtaining said thing without first approaching said location;
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- said first staff person or another staff person fulfilling said 3 request the next time that staff person approaches and attends to said location.
Computer readable media comprising restaurant-management software including:
- customer-operated software allowing a customer to select a request, fulfillment of which requires some thing being brought to said customer;
- staff operated software for presenting said request to a first staff person so that said staff person can obtain said thing without first approaching said customer is located and so that said request can be fulfilled the next time said first staff person approaches said customer;
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- communications software for permitting said request to be communicated from said customer-operated software to said staff-operated software.
Media as recited in claim 28 wherein said schemes include splitting a bill evenly among customers and splitting a bill as a function of meals ordered by each customer.
A restaurant management network comprising:
- a customer device for accepting requests from a customer, said request requiring a staff person of said restaurant to bring some thing to said customer;
- a first staff-operated device for receiving said request so that a first staff person can obtain said thing without first approaching said customer and so that said first staff person can provide said thing to said customer the next time said first staff person approaches and attends to said table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.