Canteen automation system

ABSTARCT :

Nowadays people don’t have much time to spend in canteen by just there and waiting for the waiter to take their order. Many customer visits the canteen in their lunch break and recess so they have limited time to eat and return to their respective office and colleges. So this software helps them to save time and order food whenever they want without calling the waiter again and again. Manual system involves paper work in the form of maintaining various files and manuals. Maintaining critical information in the files and manuals is full of risk and a tedious process. Including a framework showing how to apply Internet technology progressively as skills and confidence grow, the project demonstrates the route from adapting materials to developing an online environment. This Canteen Automation System enables the end users to register online, read and select the food from e-menu card and order food online by just selecting the food that the user want to have using android application. The results after selecting the food from the E-menu card will directly appear in the screen near the Chef who is going to cook the food for you. The system is the combination of Android as well as Web Application.

EXISTING SYSTEM :

? The existing system happens to be a non-computerized operating system were all operations are done manually by the waiter carrying paper and to take down the order of the customer or making an order over the counter. ? This leads to mistakes because the waiter might not understand what the customer had ordered therefore serving him/her a different menu. ? This could be so embarrassing because the customer might not take it lightly with the waiter which may lead to misunderstanding.

DISADVANTAGE :

? Requires an active internet connection. ? Requires Android phone if user is ordering ? It leads to lack of understanding between the customers and the employees. ? The record keeping the system its poor. Losses of vital records have been reported in the past consequently. Besides, protecting the system file system from unauthorized access is a problem that has defiled solution. ? Unnecessary time is wasted conveying information through the ladder of authority. Management at times seeks to get a copy of the customer’s order form and this may take a lot of time to obtain it.

PROPOSED SYSTEM :

• The proposed system is developed to manage ordering activities in a canteen. It helps to record customer submitted orders. The system should cover the following functions to support the canteens’ business process for achieving the objective: • To allow the customer to make order, view order and make changes before submitting their order and allow them make payment. • To provide interface that allows promotion and menu. • Tools that generate reports that can be used in decision making. • A tool that allows the management to modify the food information such as price, add a new menu and many others as well as for managing user, system menu and promotion records.

ADVANTAGE :

? Completely automated online ordering of food in a canteen. ? Order can be placed using personal android phones. ? Food ordering pages that look and feel exactly the same as the existing restaurant website. ? User can also order a Special Combo Box which contains multiple food items. ? Food ordering pages hosted on secure and special server so no risk of customers getting redirected to servers where competitors' websites are listed.