Service managing system
AssigneeWorld Picom Corporation
InventorTakao Terase
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Abstract
A service managing system comprises: order terminals for enabling customers to view contents of service items and to order desired items, and being portable and driven by a battery; order-receiving terminals for receiving and indicating orders from the order terminals; an accounting unit for casting accounts in response to a customer's request and indicating a calculated result; and a control unit for processing data between the order terminals, order-receiving terminals and an accounting unit. In the system, data are transmitted and received using radio communications between the order terminals, order-receiving terminals, accounting unit and control unit. When an ordered item or service is ready, it is indicated on the order terminal via the order receiving terminal.
Claims30
A service managing system, comprising:
- a portable table top terminal that enables customers to view menus and to order a desired dish, being driven by a battery, and including a number reading part;
- a kitchen terminal that receives and indicates a dish ordered from the portable table top terminal;
- an accounting unit that manages accounts in response to customers' requests input into the portable table top terminal by the customer, and indicates calculated results;
- a control unit that processes data between the portable table top terminal, the kitchen terminal, and the accounting unit, and
- a terminal receptacle including an identification number, provided at least one customer location and, the terminal receptacle receives the portable table top terminal thereon, and the number reading part reads the identification number when the portable table top terminal is placed onto the terminal receptacle, wherein
- the portable table top terminal processes a customer's order on the basis of the identification number, and the control unit manages the occupancy of the at least one customer location based on the identification number, and
- data are transmitted and received using radio communications between the portable table top terminal, the kitchen terminal, the accounting unit, and the control unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.