Internet of things-enabled dinnerware to enhance food service operations

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processing system including at least one processor, cause the processing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• obtaining data about a food item that is being prepared for a consumer;
• forwarding the data about the food item to an internet of things-enabled item of dinnerware used by the consumer to consume the food item;
• receiving, from the internet of things-enabled item of dinnerware, data about consumption of the food item by the consumer, wherein the data about consumption of the food item by the consumer comprises at least one of:
• an amount of the food item that the consumer has consumed, a rate at which the consumer is consuming the food item, or an estimation of remaining time needed by the consumer to finish consuming the food item;
• and
• providing feedback to an endpoint device of a person who prepared the food item for presentation to the person who prepared the food item, in response to the data about the consumption of the food item by the consumer, wherein the endpoint device comprises a drone, and the feedback comprises a signal that controls the drone to deliver an additional food item to the consumer, and wherein the endpoint device is a separate device from the processing system and from the internet of things-enabled item of dinnerware.

A device comprising:

• a processing system including at least one processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• obtaining data about a food item that is being prepared for a consumer;
• forwarding the data about the food item to an internet of things-enabled item of dinnerware used by the consumer to consume the food item;
• receiving, from the internet of things-enabled item of dinnerware, data about consumption of the food item by the consumer, wherein the data about consumption of the food item by the consumer comprises at least one of:
• an amount of the food item that the consumer has consumed, a rate at which the consumer is consuming the food item, or an estimation of remaining time needed by the consumer to finish consuming the food item;
• and
• providing feedback to an endpoint device of a person who prepared the food item for presentation to the person who prepared the food item, in response to the data about the consumption of the food item by the consumer, wherein the endpoint device comprises a drone, and the feedback comprises a signal that controls the drone to deliver an additional food item to the consumer, and wherein the endpoint device is a separate device from the processing system and from the internet of things-enabled item of dinnerware.