Restaurant drive-through monitoring system
AssigneeXpient Solutions, LLC
InventorsAtul Changela, Christopher Sebes
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Abstract
A system for tracking a speed of service at a restaurant for a vehicle receives an indicator that the vehicle is present in a menu board area from a first detector, and receives an indicator that an order for the vehicle is entered at a POS device. The system then receives an indicator that the vehicle is present in a service window area from a second detector. Based on the received information, the system can calculate the greet time, menu board time and service window time for the vehicle. Further, the system can generate reports and display information that correlates POS information, such as menu details of an order, with loop detector information.
Claims21
A method of tracking a speed of service at a restaurant for a vehicle, said method comprising:
- receiving a first indicator that the vehicle is present in a menu board area from a first detector;
- receiving a second indicator that an order for the vehicle is initiated;
- and
- receiving a third indicator that the vehicle is present in a service window area from a second detector.
A system for measuring speed of speed of service at a restaurant for a vehicle, said system comprising:
- a first detector for detecting that the vehicle is present in a menu board area;
- a second detector for detecting that the vehicle is present in a service window area;
- a point of sale device;
- and
- a processor coupled to said first and second detector and said point of sale device, said processor programmed to calculate a greet time for the vehicle and a menu board time for the vehicle.
A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- receive a first indicator that a vehicle is present in a menu board area from a first detector;
- receive a second indicator that an order for the vehicle is entered at a point of sale device;
- receive a third indicator that the vehicle is present in a service window area from a second detector;
- calculate a greet time for the vehicle based on said first and second indicators;
- and
- calculate a menu board time for the vehicle based on said first and second indicators.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.