Monitoring System for Food Consumption
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichael Bender, Rhonda L. Childress, David B. Kumhyr, Michael J. Spisak
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Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product for monitoring food in a restaurant system. Consumption data is received by a computer system from a sensor system generated while a number of pieces of tableware is with a number of customers in which the consumption data describes the food consumed by the number of customers. Food preferences are identified by the computer system for the number of customers using the consumption data, enabling adjusting an operation of the restaurant system based on the food preferences identified for the number of customers.
Claims20
A food monitoring system comprising:
- a number of pieces of tableware;
- a sensor system physically associated with the number of pieces of tableware, wherein the sensor system monitors food on the number of pieces of tableware;
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- a food analyzer in a computer system receives consumption data from the sensor system in which the consumption data is generated while the number of pieces of tableware is with a number of customers in which the consumption data describes the food consumed by the number of customers;
- and identifies food preferences for the number of customers using the consumption data, enabling adjusting an operation of a restaurant system based on the food preferences for the number of customers.
A method for monitoring food in a restaurant system, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a computer system, consumption data from a sensor system in which the consumption data is generated while a number of pieces of tableware is with a number of customers in which the consumption data describes the food consumed by the number of customers;
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- identifying, by the computer system, food preferences for the number of customers using the consumption data, enabling adjusting an operation of the restaurant system based on the food preferences identified for the number of customers.
A computer program product for monitoring food in a restaurant system, the computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage media;
- first program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, executable by a processor unit to cause the processor unit to receive consumption data from a sensor system in which the consumption data is generated while a number of pieces of tableware is with a number of customers in which the consumption data describes the food consumed by the number of customers;
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- second program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, executable by the processor unit to cause the processor unit to identify food preferences for the number of customers using the consumption data, enabling adjusting an operation of the restaurant system based on the food preferences for the number of customers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.