Multiple recipe merge with feedback

A system for preparing two or more food items, comprising:

• means for retrieving in a computer system at least a first recipe for preparing a first food item and a second recipe for preparing a second food item, each of the first and second recipes including at least one task;
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• means for merging the first recipe and the second recipe by combining the at least one task of the first recipe and the at least one t of the second recipe to provide a task list suitable for use in preparing the first and second food items;
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• means for determining the actual time required for performing the task;
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• means for identifying a cook from the plurality of cooks performing the task;
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• means for associating an actual time required to complete the task with the identity of the cook for providing a time requirement for performing the task for the identified cook;
• wherein the tasks are arranged chronologically so that the f food item and the second food item are completed at substantially the same time and wherein the means for merging includes means for interrogating a database associating each task with a time requirement describing the estimated time required for performing the task and whereupon the actual time required for performing the task is used for updating the time requirement associated with the task and wherein the time requirement for performing the task for the identified cook is thereafter used for arranging the task in the task list when that cook is to perform the task.

A system for preparing two or more food items, comprising:

• means for retrieving in a computer system at least a first recipe for preparing a first food item and a second recipe for preparing a second food item, each of the first and second recipes including at least one task;
• and
• means for merging the first recipe and the second recipe by combining the at least one task of the first recipe and the at least one task of the second recipe to provide a task list suitable for use in preparing the first and second food items;
• and
• means for assigning the tasks within list to a plurality of cooks;
• means for identifying a cook performing the task;
• and
• means for associating an actual time required to complete the task with the identity of the cook for providing a time requirement for performing the task for the identified cook;
• wherein the time requirement for performing the task for the identified cook is thereafter used for arranging the task m the task list when that cook is to perform the task and wherein the tasks are arranged chronologically so that the first food item and the second food item are completed at substantially the same time and wherein the means for merging the first recipe and the second recipe includes means for interrogating a database capable of associating each task with a time requirement and an appliance requirement describing respectively the time and appliances required for performing the task and wherein the time requirement and the appliances requirement are used for arranging the task in the task list and whereupon a task is performed, for determining the actual time required for performing the task, whereupon the actual dine required for performing the task is used for updating the time requirement associated with the task.