Sku translation between point of sale systems in kiosk-based quick service restaurant environments
AssigneeTillster, Inc.
InventorJohn Silva
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Abstract
Disclosed embodiments provide the ability to create a single customer-operated kiosk quick service restaurant ordering system menu application which may be easily integrated with any number of different back office point of sale system implementations without compromising menu design and the customer user interface experience.
Claims32
A computer-implemented method of integrating a customer-operated ordering kiosk system with a point of sale (POS) system, the method comprising:
- displaying a menu of food items available for ordering by the customer;
- receiving, at the kiosk system, a customer inputted selection of one of the food items from the menu;
- determining a kiosk SKU value based on the customer inputted selection;
- accessing SKU mapping data to determine one or more POS SKU values corresponding to the customer inputted selection;
- and
- transmitting the determined one or more POS SKU values to the POS system.
A customer-operated kiosk ordering system for use in a quick service restaurant environment, comprising:
- an ordering application configured to provide a customer-operated ordering input interface, the customer-operated ordering interface configured to display a menu of food items available for ordering by the customer;
- a kiosk database configured to store data indicative of items available for ordering by customers utilizing the ordering application;
- a translation module configured to receive kiosk SKU data from the ordering application based on an item ordered in the ordering application, and to translate the kiosk SKU data into one or more point of sale system (POS) SKU values corresponding to the item ordered;
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- a network interface configured to transmit the one or more POS SKU values corresponding to the item ordered to a point of sale (POS) system.
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instruction stored thereon, which when executed, cause a computing device to perform a method of integrating a customer-operated ordering kiosk system with a point of sale (POS) system, the method comprising:
- displaying a menu of food items available for ordering by the customer;
- receiving, at the kiosk system, a customer inputted selection of one of the food items from the menu;
- determining a kiosk SKU value based on the customer inputted selection;
- accessing SKU mapping data to determine one or more POS SKU values corresponding to the customer inputted selection;
- and
- transmitting the determined one or more POS SKU values to the POS system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.