Order Registration Device with Number-of-People Button
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current order registration systems in restaurants are prone to errors and inefficiencies, particularly when registering the number of customers and quantities of orders, leading to degraded service quality and customer wait times due to cumbersome input procedures.
Innovation Solution
An electronic register with a 'number-of-people' button allows users to easily input the same number of orders as the number of customers by a single tap, reducing the need for numeric key input and minimizing errors, and includes features like voice input and modified numeric keypads for streamlined quantity registration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users input the number of customers using numeric keys or repeatedly tap product buttons, then the order registration system can register quantities, but the operation becomes tiresome and degrades service quality
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-registers the number of customers as initial information. When the same number is needed for product quantity registration, the system automatically retrieves and uses this pre-registered number, eliminating the need for users to re-input it and reducing operation time
Solution Approach 2:
The system copies the pre-registered number of customers and applies it to product quantity registration. This copying mechanism allows the same numerical value to be reused across different input contexts, significantly reducing repetitive typing and tapping operations
2Reliability
If users check the number of customers and input it using numeric keys or repeated button tapping, then the quantity can be registered, but mistakes occur in registering the wrong quantity
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback by displaying the pre-registered number of customers to users during order registration. This visual feedback allows users to verify the number before confirmation, reducing input errors while maintaining ease of operation through automatic retrieval
Solution Approach 2:
The system copies the verified number of customers from initial registration and applies it to product quantity fields. This copying process ensures consistency between the registered customer count and order quantities, preventing mismatches and registration errors
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AI summary
An order registration device includes: a processor configured to execute a process that includes: a number-of-people registration process for registering the number of customers related to one transaction; a product registration process for registering a product ordered by the customers; and a display control process for performing control such that a display unit displays a number-of-people button which is a button for inputting the number of orders with respect to the product registered in the product registration process, the same number as the number of customers registered in the number-of-people registration process being set as the number of orders by the number-of-people button.