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US 2021/0201231 A1Published application
Food order management system and method thereof
AssigneeRockspoon, Inc.
InventorNagib Georges Mimassi
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Abstract
A food order management system which coordinates the preparation and delivery of food orders at a business establishment using components which predict food order preparation times, delivery times, and other critical time periods in the food ordering process based on a variety of factors, internal to the business establishment and external to the business establishment, that may affect the food ordering process.
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A food order management system, comprising:
- A food order management system comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operating on the processor, wherein the programming instructions, when operating on the processor, cause the processor to:
- receive a food order, the food order comprising at least one food item;
- access a food item database configured to store an estimated food item preparation time for each of a plurality of food items, the plurality of food items comprising the at least one food item;
- retrieve the estimated food item preparation time for each of the at least one food item in the food order from the food item database;
- generate an estimated food order preparation time based on the retrieved estimated food item preparation time for each of the at least one food item in the food order at the food order management system;
- assign preparation of the food order to an earliest available food preparation time at a food preparation area;
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- generate a predicted food order ready time indicating when the food order is expected to be available for distribution based on the assigned food preparation time and the estimated food order preparation time at the food order management system.
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A food order management method, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a food order at a food order management system, the food order comprising at least one food item;
- accessing a food item database configured to store an estimated food item preparation time for each of a plurality of food items, the plurality of food items comprising the at least one food item;
- retrieving the estimated food item preparation time for each of the at least one food item in the food order from the food item database;
- generating an estimated food order preparation time based on the retrieved estimated food item preparation time for each of the at least one food item in the food order at the food order management system;
- assigning preparation of the food order to an earliest available food preparation time at a food preparation area;
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- generating a predicted food order ready time indicating when the food order is expected to be available for distribution based on the assigned food preparation time and the estimated food order preparation time at the food order management system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.