Restaurant waiter paging system

A wireless paging system for paging service personnel;

• the paging system including:
• a plurality of remote transmitters;
• the remote transmitters being selectively activatible to request service, each transmitter emitting a unique signal when activated;
• a plurality of pager units, the pager units being sized to be worn by service personnel;
• each pager unit being associated with a set of remote transmitters;
• each said set of remote transmitters being fewer than all the remote transmitters in the system;
• each said pager unit including a receiver which receives a signal indicative of a request;
• a display for displaying at least one service request;
• a request memory having a plurality of addresses for storing request information, and a reset button;
• the pager unit displaying at least the request stored in a first location of the request memory addresses;
• the pager unit further including means for clearing a displayed request and updating the display in response to pressing of the reset button to replace the cleared request with a further request.

In a restaurant having a plurality of tables at which diners sit;

• the improvement comprising a wireless waiter paging system;
• the paging system including:
• a table transmitter at each table;
• the transmitter being selectively activatible by a diner at the table to request service, each table transmitter emitting a different signal;
• a plurality of waiter pagers;
• each pager being associated with a set of table transmitters;
• each said set of table transmitters being fewer than all the table transmitters in the restaurant;
• each said pager including a receiver which receives a signal indicative of a request;
• a request memory having a plurality of addresses for storing requests;
• a display capable of displaying at least one request stored in said request memory;
• a reset button operable to clear a displayed request when activated;
• and means for advancing said requests in said request memory and for updating said display to display previously undisplayed requests after a request has been cleared;
• and
• a central unit;
• the central unit including a receiver which receives the signal from the table transmitter, a central transmitter which sends a signal in response to the received signal indicative of the table requesting service to the waiter pagers;
• the central unit including means for selectively altering the set of tables with which an individual pager is associated.

A wireless waiter paging system for use in a restaurant having a plurality of tables;

• the paging system including:
• a table transmitter at each table;
• the transmitter being selectively activatible by a diner at the table to request service, each transmitter emitting a different signal;
• a plurality of waiter pagers;
• each pager being associated with a set of table transmitters;
• each said set of table transmitters being fewer than all the table transmitters in the restaurant;
• each said pager including a receiver which receives a signal indicative of a request;
• and a display capable of displaying at least one request;
• said waiter pager units receiving the signal directly from the table transmitter;
• the waiter pager units being programmable;
• each pager including means for selectively altering the set of tables with which the pager unit is associated.

A paging system for paging service personnel;

• the paging system including:
• a plurality of remote transmitters, there being at least one remote transmitter at each of a plurality of locations;
• each remote transmitter being selectively activatible at the location to transmit a “personnel call” signal, each remote transmitter, when activated, emitting a signal indicative of the particular location from which the signal was sent;
• a central unit;
• the central unit including a receiver which receives the “personnel call” signal from the remote transmitters, a central transmitter which emits a “personnel call” signal in response to the signal received from the remote transmitter, the central unit including a pager memory in which pager codes are stored and a pager/transmitter association memory in which pager code/transmitter association information is stored;
• the central transmitter signal including said pager code;
• and
• a plurality of pagers;
• each pager being associated with a set of remote transmitters;
• each said set of remote transmitters being fewer than all the remote transmitters in the system;
• said pagers each being preprogrammed with an identification number, each pager including a receiver which receives the “personnel call” signal from the central unit, a display capable of displaying at least one request, and a processor, said processor comparing said pager code transmitted by said central unit to said identification number;
• and causing said display to display data indicative of said request only if said pager code corresponds to said identification number;
• the set of locations with which an individual pager is associated being selectively alterable;
• whereby, when a remote transmitter in a set of remote transmitters is activated by a guest, the pager display of the pager associated with the particular remote transmitter will display indicia indicative of the location requesting service.