JP3847044B2 - Food and beverage fee settlement system - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a food and beverage fee settlement system that performs a settlement process based on fee information stored in an ID tag built in a dish.
[0002]
[Prior art]
For example, in a rotating sushi store, different patterns are printed on a plate and the price is expressed by the difference in the pattern, and the clerk counts the number of plates of the same price at the time of checkout so that the food and drink charges are counted.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, if the number of dishes to be counted is large, or if the customer is crowded and needs to be dealt with in a short time, it is easy to make a calculation error. Further, when the details of the type and number of dishes that have been counted are re-inputted into the register, it takes time to input, and the customer is kept waiting, and there is a high possibility of making an input error.
[0004]
The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a food and beverage fee settlement system that can easily and reliably settle a food and beverage fee.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
According to the first aspect of the present invention, the store clerk positions the dish in the communication area of the reading and writing means when the customer's eating and drinking ends. Then, the reading / writing means reads the fee information from the ID tag of the plate, and then transmits the fee information and the food / beverage information indicating the number of plates corresponding to the processing number. Subsequently, the store clerk positions the settlement ID card in the communication area of the reading / writing means. Then, the reading / writing means writes the processing number in the settlement ID card.
[0006]
When the customer submits the settlement ID card to the settlement counter, the settlement means reads the process number from the settlement ID card, and based on the food and drink information transmitted from the read / write means corresponding to the process number. Charge a fee. Accordingly, the customer can pay for the food and beverage charges by paying the billed charges.
[0008]
According to the invention of claim 2 , since the antenna coil of the reading / writing means is provided at the hot water supply port so that the central axes thereof are substantially coincided with each other, the communication area of the reading / writing means is accurately placed below the hot water supply port. Can be set. In this case, the hot water supply port functions as a bobbin for the antenna coil of the reading / writing means, and the reading / writing ability of the reading / writing means can be enhanced.
[0009]
According to the invention of claim 3 , since the display means displays the food / beverage information, the fee to be paid prior to the payment of the food / beverage fee is known, and the convenience is excellent.
[0010]
According to the invention of claim 4 , the reading / writing means stores the tag number when the tag number is read from the ID tag. At this time, if the tag number has already been stored, it is determined that transmission of food and beverage information or writing to the settlement ID card has already been completed, and transmission or writing of fee information is prohibited. Thereby, it is possible to reliably prevent the charge information from being erroneously double-transmitted or double-written.
[0011]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Below, describing an embodiment according to the present invention the rotating sushi bars with reference to the accompanying drawings. Here, the rotating sushi store is a store having the following sales system.
FIG. 2 schematically shows a rotating sushi sales system. In FIG. 2, a loop-shaped conveyor 1 is provided in the store, and a table 2 and a chair 3 are provided along the conveyor 1. The sushi is placed on a plate 4 and conveyed along the table 2 by the conveyor 1. The customer takes the dish 4 on which the favorite sushi is placed from among the dishes 4 carried by the conveyor 1, and the dishes 4 after having finished eating are sequentially stacked on the table 2. At the store side, the sushi is placed on a plate of a color or pattern corresponding to the selling price, so that the customer can know the approximate amount to be paid to the store from the stacked plates 4 and the number of plates. After finishing the meal, the store clerk counts the number of dishes by color or pattern and determines the amount to be paid to the store.
[0012]
A hot water outlet 5 is provided in front of the table 2 so as to correspond to the chair 3, so that tea can be drunk by feeding out a cup of hot water only and receiving supply of hot water from the hot water outlet 5. A display unit (corresponding to display means) 6 is provided adjacent to the hot water supply port 5 and a buzzer 7 is provided.
[0013]
FIG. 1 schematically shows a longitudinal side surface of a hot water supply apparatus for supplying hot water to a hot water supply port 5. In FIG. 1, a hot water supply port 5 is provided on the front surface of a support 8 that supports the conveyor 1, a hot water supply pipe 9 is connected to the hot water supply port 5, and a control valve 10 is provided in the hot water supply pipe 9. It has been. The control valve 10 is opened in response to a command from a reader / writer 11 (corresponding to reading / writing means), and hot water is supplied to the hot water supply port 5 through the hot water supply pipe 9 in the opened state. It has become.
[0014]
A knob 12 is provided at a position below the hot water supply port 5 on the front surface of the support 8, and a hot water supply valve 13 is provided between the hot water supply port 5 and the control valve 10, and the knob 12 is pressed. In this state, the hot water supply valve 13 is opened. The hot water supply valve 13 is provided with a read switch (not shown). The hot water supply valve 13 is opened, and the read switch is turned on to give an ON signal to the reader / writer 11.
[0015]
Here, an antenna coil 14 is attached to the hot water supply port 5. The antenna coil 14 has a coil 14 a housed in a container 14 b, and its central axis substantially coincides with the central axis of the hot water supply port 5. The antenna coil 14 is connected to the reader / writer 11 through the cable 15, and transmits a high-frequency power signal in a state where a power signal is given from the reader / writer 11. In this case, the cable 15 for connecting the antenna coil 14 and the reader / writer 11 is disposed in the hot water supply pipe 9.
[0016]
On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, the plate 4 on which the sushi is placed is made of plastic such as ABS resin, and an ID tag 16 is embedded therein. As shown in FIG. 4, the ID tag 16 includes an antenna coil 17 for transmitting and receiving radio signals, a resonance capacitor 18, a control IC 19, and a smoothing unit 20. The IC 19 and the smoothing unit 20 are mounted on the printed wiring board 21.
[0017]
The control IC 19 is a chip in which semiconductor elements constituting the rectifying unit 23, the modem unit 24, the memory unit 25, etc., in addition to the MPU (microprocessor unit) 22, are integrated. The smoothing unit 20 includes a smoothing capacitor, a Zener diode, and the like (not shown).
[0018]
The antenna coil 17 is connected in parallel with the resonance capacitor 18 to form a resonance circuit. When a radio wave signal for power with a predetermined high frequency is transmitted from a reader / writer as an external device, the antenna coil 17 receives this. To the rectifying unit 23. The rectifying unit 23 constitutes an operation power supply circuit together with the smoothing unit 20, rectifies the electric power radio signal transmitted from the resonance circuit, smoothes it by the smoothing unit 20, and has a constant voltage DC power (operating power). ) And supplied to the MPU 22 and the like.
[0019]
A signal such as data transmitted from the reader / writer is transmitted by being superimposed on the power radio signal, and the signal is demodulated by the modem unit 24 and given to the MPU 22. The MPU 22 operates in accordance with an operation program stored in the ROM of the memory unit 25. The MPU 22 executes processing according to a signal input from the modem unit 24, and erases the received data from an EEPROM or the like of the memory unit 25. The data is written into a possible non-volatile memory, data is read from the memory unit 25, modulated by the modem unit 24, and transmitted as a radio wave signal from the antenna coil 17.
[0020]
FIG. 5 shows tag information stored in the memory unit 25 of the ID tag 16. In FIG. 5, as tag information, tag information and fee information indicating the fee of the dish 4 are stored.
[0021]
Here, when communicating with the ID tag 16, the reader / writer 11 modulates the carrier signal and transmits it as a power radio signal from the antenna coil 14, and then transmits the data to be transmitted to the power radio signal. The rate information is read from the ID tag 16 embedded in the dish 4 by being modulated so as to be superimposed on the antenna coil 14 and the eating and drinking information obtained by processing the read rate information as described later is stored in the POS register. It is supposed to send.
[0022]
Next, the POS system for paying the food and drink charges will be described. This POS system is characterized in that a food and drink fee is settled using a settlement ID card.
[0023]
FIG. 6 shows a POS register installed in the checkout counter. In FIG. 6, the POS register (corresponding to the settlement means) 26 stores the food / beverage information transmitted from the reader / writer 11 and processes the processing number from the settlement ID card 29 through the reader / writer 28 placed on the settlement counter 27. And the food and drink charges are displayed on the display 26a based on the read process number.
[0024]
FIG. 7 shows the settlement ID card 29. In FIG. 7, the adjustment ID card 29 has a built-in antenna coil 30 and a control IC 31, which basically have the same configuration as the above-described ID tag 16, and therefore will not be described.
[0025]
Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the reader / writer 11, which is repeatedly executed. In FIG. 8, the reader / writer 11 determines whether a reading switch provided in the hot water supply valve 13 is turned on (S101).
[0026]
When a customer puts a pack of tea in a hot water bowl and presses the knob 12 to drink tea, the reader / writer 11 determines that the reading switch is turned on (S101: YES), and executes the reading operation from the ID tag. It is then determined whether the dish 4 has the ID tag 16 (S103) or the settlement ID card 29 (S107). In this case, since it is neither the ID tag 16 nor the settlement ID card 29 (S107: NO), it is determined that only hot water is a teacup, and hot water supply is started by opening the control valve 10 (S112). At this time, since the hot water supply valve 13 is opened in response to a pressing operation on the knob 12, hot water is supplied from the hot water supply port 5 only to the tea bowl.
[0027]
When an appropriate amount of hot water is supplied to the hot water cup, the customer moves the hot water cup from the knob 12, so that the hot water supply valve 13 is closed and the hot water supply is stopped. At this time, the reader / writer 11 stops hot water supply by closing the control valve 10 in response to the reading switch being turned off (S113: YES) (S114). Therefore, the customer can drink tea from the teacup.
[0028]
Now, when the customer who finished eating and drinking wishes to collect the fee, the store clerk positions the empty tray 4 below the hot water outlet 5 with the empty plates 4 as shown in FIG. Is pressed by hand.
[0029]
Then, the reader / writer 11 starts reading in response to the reading switch being turned on, determines that it is the ID tag 16 of the plate 4 (S103: YES), and prevents double reading of the same plate. The tag information is read from all the ID tags 16 stacked by performing filtering (S104), and the read tag information is stored in the memory (S105). 6 is displayed (S106). Therefore, the customer can know in advance the fee to be paid to the store based on the display content of the display unit 6.
[0030]
When the store clerk finishes reading the tag information from the ID tags 16 of all the dishes 4 as described above, the store clerk holds the knob 12 with the hand while the ID card 29 for settlement is located below the hot water supply port 5. Press operation. Then, the reader / writer 11 determines that it is a settlement ID card 29 in response to the reading switch being turned on (S107: YES), and assigns a processing number (for example, a serial number from the start of business) to the settlement ID card 29. At the same time as writing (S108), the buzzer 7 notifies the end of writing (S109), and then transmits the charge information and the food / beverage information indicating the number of dishes to the POS register 26 together with the process number. Therefore, the store clerk can determine that the writing to the settlement ID card 29 has been completed when the buzzer 7 generates a notification sound.
[0031]
Subsequently, the reader / writer 11 stores the tag number of the ID tag 16 that has read the charge information included in the eating and drinking information that has been transmitted. If the dish 4 that has not been read remains after the processing number has been written to the settlement ID card 29, the charge information is read from the ID tag 16 of the dish 4, and the charge information and Although it is necessary to send the food / beverage information indicating the number of dishes to the POS register 26 together with the processing number, if the tag information is erroneously read again from the ID tag 16 of the dish 4 that has already been read, the reading ends. This is because the food tag information is not retransmitted with respect to the charge information read from the ID tag 16 by determining that the ID tag 16 is present.
When a plurality of settlements are performed for the same customer, a plurality of process numbers are stored in the settlement ID card 29.
[0032]
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the POS register 26, which is repeatedly executed. In FIG. 9, the POS register 26 monitors whether the food / drink information is input from the reader / writer 11 (S201) or the settlement ID card 29 exists (S202). When the food / beverage information is transmitted (S201: YES), the food / beverage information is stored (S209).
[0033]
When the store clerk finishes writing the processing number to the settlement ID card 29 as described above, the store clerk hands the settlement ID card 29 to the customer. The customer who has received the settlement ID card 29 submits the settlement ID card 29 to the settlement counter 27. Then, the store clerk operates the POS register 26 after placing the payment ID card 29 submitted by the customer on the reader / writer 11.
[0034]
When the POS register 26 determines that the settlement ID card 29 is present (S202: YES), it reads the process number from the settlement ID card 29 (S203), and when it is read normally (S204: YES), The corresponding detailed data (charge and number of plates) is retrieved from the processing number (S205). Subsequently, the total amount is calculated and displayed on the display 26a (S206). After the specification and receipt are issued (S207), the stored contents of the settlement ID card 29 are cleared (S208). In addition, when the some process number is memorize | stored in ID card 29 for adjustment, the food-and-drink charge is totaled based on the food-and-drink information corresponding to those process numbers.
[0035]
According to such an embodiment, the charge information is read from the ID tag 16 of the plate 4 by the reader / writer 11 through the antenna coil 14 attached to the hot water supply port 5, and the read charge information and the food / beverage information indicating the number of plates are processed. The processing number is written in the settlement ID card 29 after being transmitted to the POS register 26 together with the number, and the food and drink input from the reader / writer 11 corresponding to the processing number read from the settlement ID card 29 in the POS register 26 Since the settlement process is performed based on the information, it is possible to settle the food and beverage charges without inputting any food and beverage charges. Therefore, even if the customer is congested, the settlement process can be performed in a short time, and an input error is not made.
[0036]
Further, since the antenna coil 14 is mounted on the hot water supply port 5 so that the central axis substantially coincides with the hot water supply port 5, the communication area of the antenna coil 14 can be accurately set below the hot water supply port. In this case, since the hot water supply port 5 functions as a bobbin of the antenna coil 14, the communication performance of the antenna coil 14 can be improved.
[0037]
Moreover, since the display part 6 was provided corresponding to the chair 3, and the reading number of sheets 4 and the total amount of money were displayed on the display part 6, the food-and-drink fee which should be paid to a store can be known beforehand, and it is convenient. Is excellent.
[0038]
Furthermore, since the reader / writer 11 stores the ID number read from the ID tag 16 of the plate 4 to prevent double transmission of food and drink information to the POS register 26, the reliability of the system can be improved. .
[0043]
The present invention is not limited to the form of the above you facilities can be modified or expanded as follows.
You may make it transmit food / beverage information to the POS register | resistor 26 from the reader / writer 11 by radio | wireless.
The seat number may be stored in the settlement ID card 29 instead of the processing number.
A single reader / writer 11 may access a plurality of antenna coils 14.
[Brief description of the drawings]
[1] Electrical Configuration perspective view [4] ID tag indicating a perspective view [FIG 3] turntable showing a vertical sectional side view Figure 2 Shi be rotating system showing the water heater according to an embodiment of the present invention FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing tag information. FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a POS register. FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a settlement ID card. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of a reader / writer. flow chart showing the operation of the POS register
[ Explanation of symbols]
4 is a dish, 5 is a hot water supply port, 6 is a display unit (display means), 11 is a reader / writer (read / write means), 14 is an antenna coil, 16 is an ID tag, 26 is a POS register (settlement means), and 29 is It is a settlement ID card.

Claims (4)

A dish with an ID tag storing fee information;
Checkout ID card carried by the customer,
When the ID tag is located in a predetermined communication area corresponding to each seat, the fee information is read from the ID tag and the fee information and the food / beverage information indicating the number of dishes are transmitted corresponding to the processing number, When the ID card is located, read / write means for writing the processing number on the settlement ID card,
The food / beverage information from the reading / writing means is stored in correspondence with the processing number, and the processing number is read from the settlement ID card carried by the customer, based on the food / beverage information stored in correspondence with the processing number. A dining fee settlement system comprising a settlement means for charging a fee. There is a hot water outlet provided for the seat,
2. The eating and drinking fee settlement system according to claim 1, wherein the antenna coil of the reading / writing means is provided at the hot water supply port so that center axes thereof substantially coincide with each other . 3. The eating and drinking fee settlement system according to claim 1 or 2 , further comprising a display means provided corresponding to the reading and writing means and displaying food and drink information . The reading / writing means stores the tag number read from the ID tag, and re-sends food / drink information that has already been transmitted or written to the settlement ID card based on the stored tag number. Or the rewriting is prohibited , The eating and drinking fee settlement system according to any one of claims 1 to 3.

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