Abstract: The idea is to develop a table-inbuilt console based interactive system for manual ordering system. This interactive system can be used in coffee shops, clubs, public restaurants or bars. The aim is to provide every table with a touch screen based console that can be used by customers as an interactive interface between the customers as well as restaurant manager or administrator. Our system will allow the user to view menu items and order them accordingly. The consoles shall be centrally connected to a central server where actual centralized order processing of all clients can be done. A single administrator can view / monitor all the orders from this centralized server. The system also saves time for both customers as well as hotel owner for order placement

Manali N More

Mrs Mukta Nivelkar

Nilam P Mane

Prathamesh V Rale

Sujitkumar Sahane

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SELF ORDER SPOTON INTERACTIVE 
IN-BUILT CONSOLE 
 
Nilam P. Mane
1
      Prathamesh V. Rale
1
 
      nilam.mane1992@gmail.com    realparth77@gmail.com 
 
Manali N.More
1
      Sujitkumar Sahane
1
 
more.manali1@gmail.com                sujit.sahane@gmail.com 
                                                     
Mrs. Mukta Nivelkar
2
 
Asst. Professor Of  Department Of Information Technology, 
Fr.C.Rodirgues Institute Of Technology, Vashi 
mukta.nivelkar21@gmail.com 
 
Abstract: 
The idea is to develop a table-inbuilt console based 
interactive system for manual ordering system. This 
interactive system can be used in coffee shops, clubs, 
public restaurants or bars. The aim is to provide 
every table with a touch screen based console that 
can be used by customers as an interactive interface 
between the customers as well as restaurant manager 
or administrator.  
 Our system will allow the user to view menu items 
and order them accordingly. The consoles shall be 
centrally connected to a central server where   actual 
centralized order processing of all clients can be 
done. A single administrator can view / monitor all 
the orders from this centralized server. The system 
also saves time for both customers as well as hotel 
owner for order placement. 
Keywords: In-built console, Interactive Interface and 
Centralized Administration. 
I. INTRODUCTION 
 
The advancement in information and communication 
technology (ITC) has greatly influenced the business 
transactions. The adoption of wireless technology & 
emergence of mobile devices has led to automation in 
the hospitality industry. Business in hospitality industry 
such as restaurants can be improved with the 
combination of wireless and mobile technologies. The 
competition in restaurant business has increased with the 
advancements in food ordering techniques.  
 
An earlier food ordering systemwas entirely a manual 
process which involved waiters, pen and paper. The 
waiter had to note down orders from customers, take 
these orders to kitchen, update them in records and again 
make bill. Even though this system is simple it may 
involve human errors in noting down the orders. To 
overcome these limitations in manual system some 
systems were developed later like PDA based systems 
and multi-touchable restaurant management systems to 
automate food ordering process.  
 
A. In-built console for ordering automation 
 
The basic idea to develop the in-built console for 
ordering automation of restaurants with interactive 
ordering system [1]. The system targets to provide each 
table in the restaurant with an in-built console. The in-
built console on the table will help the person to have 
full access to the menu been provided by the restaurant. 
The person has to select the particular course. After 
selecting, the person will have every minute details of 
the cuisine. All the details like its origin, the ingredients 
possessed by it. The person can also customize the 
recipe of the course that is going to be ordered. So in 
brief he will be able to increase the pointer for the spice 
if he needs spicy food and vice versa for all tastes. 
Moreover he can ask for suggestions.  
 
The person ordering the food can also know which 
cuisine id popular in the mass. The people will come to 
know about the popularity of the food from the reviews 
and the hits for the cuisine. The reviews will obviously 
be given by the people coming to the restaurant which 
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already had that cuisine. Thus the indirect 
communication between the people will help to grow the 
popularity of the course. 
 
Apart from the food ordering the person will also be 
able to navigate through the entertainment facilities. The 
entertainment facilities will be varying from movies to 
games. This for the customers to keep busy till the order 
gets ready. The entertainment facilities will be provided 
by the administrator itself. The admin will more over 
manage the processing of the orders also. The admin 
will see where to place the orders in the kitchen and to 
which chef kitchen according to which chef is been idle 
to take the order.  
This is been done to reduce the waiting period for 
preparing order. To implement this, server will be using 
multi-server querying mechanism. Thus this is going to 
benefit a lot to the people coming in the restaurants. 
Moreover at chef console, the chef will make the order s 
on the basis of first come first server basis. 
On the customer side, the entertainment facilities will be 
under the control of administrator. The facilities will 
only be started once the order is been place to the chef. 
So whenever person comes to the restaurant the only 
visible thing on the console will be welcome screen 
followed by the menu for the respective courses. Once 
the order has been placed, the facilities will be opened 
for the customer. This kind of security is for the stalkers 
who just come to have fun in this place. This will help 
the person to focus on the main purpose that is to have a 
delightful dinner and not to do other stuff since those 
things will be secondary purpose of the system. 
Once the person is finished with the course he will be 
able to see the bill details and pay the bill at the counter. 
Later the reviews will be asked for the purpose to make 
any improvement in the course if suggested by the 
customer. This will help the other people coming to the 
place to know more about the cuisine from the last 
people coming to the place to know more about the 
cuisine from the last people coming to the place thus 
improving the e standard of the restaurant. 
PDAs (personal digital assistants) are well known for 
their portability feature and ability to communicate with 
personal computers but they too have some limitations. 
PDA-based systems lack ubiquitous communication, are 
exposed to health hazards ,has lower GPU (graphical 
processing unit) and hardware support due to which 
menu customization and real time communication 
cannot be done, and increase the restaurant expanses 
when needed in large quantity.  
 
The multi-touchable restaurant management systems [2] 
also have limitations like: they usually require low 
resolution output of the monitor, can produce activation 
without touching the screen and the cost to produce the 
special Infrared bezel for touch screens is very high. The 
CWOS-RTF was developed as one of the solutions for 
the PDA based system. It is a wireless food ordering 
system which made the use of smart phones to place 
orders. Taking an idea from this system we have 
proposed our system, which is specially designed for 
console Devices. 
 
II. SYSTEM DESIGN CONTEXT 
 
It shows the System Context Diagram. In this context 
diagram first registered customer has to logon console 
using username and password. Once the customer 
successfully logged in the offers and extra features like 
Wi-Fi net access [3] will be available to that customer. 
If the customer is not a registered customer then for that 
customer the default session will be created which will 
not offers the extra features. 
 
After successfully login the menu will be display to the 
customers and from these menus [4] the customers will 
select the items of their choice for ordering the food. 
Once the order is placed it will go to the server machine 
queue and based on the order type they will decide 
which order is handled by which chef and then 
respective chef start making the food. 
 
During this time period the customer will enjoy other 
features on the console such as gaming, live videos 
streaming,checking reviews and feedback of the 
previous customers. Once the order is made the 
customer will get notify via pop-ups on their 
console.Once the customer finished their meal the bill 
will be automatically generated at manager machine and 
customer gives their review and feedback about food.  
 
 
 
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    Fig (a).  Architecture Diagram 
 
 
Figure (a) shows the basic architecture design. In this 
architecture customer will have to login 
registration then place the order for food through the in-
built console which is connected to the server machine 
in kitchen and server machine at cashier counter. 
  
Through this console, order will display on the 
kitchen console with the help of this the server machine 
come to know the track of order the customer is giving 
and in the same way the chef will prepare the order and 
serving to customers simultaneously.  At cashier 
counter, it will generate bill details based on 
served orders from kitchen and send it to respective 
console using console_id. Then further updates will be 
done in database. 
  
III. SYSTEM HARDWAREDESIGN 
 
A console device is an electronic visual display that the 
user can control through simple or multi-touch 
gestures[5] by touching the screen with one or more 
fingers. Some consoles can also detect objects such as a 
stylus or ordinary or specially coated gloves. The user 
can use the touch screen to react to what is displayed 
and to control how it is displayed. The console device 
enables the user to interact directly with what is 
displayed, rather than using a mouse, touchpad, or any 
other intermediate device (other than a stylus, which is 
optional for most modern console device).  
 
Console device are common in devices such as game 
consoles, all-in-one computers, tablet computers, and 
smart-phones. They can also be attached to computers 
or, as terminals, to networks. They also play a prominent 
role in the design of digital appliances such as personal 
digital assistants (PDAs), satellite navigation devices, 
mobile phones, and video games and some books. The 
popularity of smart-phones, tablets, and many types of 
information appliances is driving the demand and 
acceptance of common console device for portable and 
functional electronics.  
 
Console device are found in the medical field and in 
heavy industry, as well as for automated teller machines 
(ATMs), and kiosks such as museum displays or room 
automation, where keyboard and mouse systems do not 
allow a suitably intuitive, rapid, or accurate interaction 
by the user with the display's content.  
 
Historically, the touch-screen sensor and its 
accompanying controller-based firmware have been 
made available by a wide array of after-market system 
integrators, and not by display, chip, or motherboard 
manufacturers. Display manufacturers and chip 
manufacturers worldwide have acknowledged the trend 
toward acceptance of console device as a highly 
desirable user interface component and have begun to 
integrate console device into the fundamental design of 
their products. 
 
IV. BENEFITS  OF CONSOLE  APPROACH 
 
A console approach is more efficient than traditional 
system, according to the time constraint.It reduces the 
workload of “Middle man (waiter)” and makes the 
customer feel special by making offers to customer.It is 
also less prone to human error. 
 
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V. LIMITATIONS  OF  CONSOLE  
APPROACH 
It can be costly because of the installation of the new 
system in small places.Security and integrity of the 
console can be compromised. 
 
But it can prove a great deal of promising standard of 
service as far as five star hotels are been taken into 
consideration. If owner needs to install it at small places 
the places should be such where customers frequency is 
at peak time of the day like pubs, clubs at weekends. 
 
VI. SIGNIFICANCE 
 
In restaurant this approach can be used when the rush is 
at peak for most of the time such as in a luxurious 
restaurant.  Even in a pubs and clubs where the most of 
youth crowd comes, they can make a dedication of a 
song through our system. Other places like resorts, 
where a special package on special occasion is offered 
to customers. In  Office canteens  employee can make 
their regular orders during lunch, tea break etc. 
 
VII. FUTURE SCOPE 
 
Tables have flat surfaces made from industrial glass, 
which provides additional breakage and spilled water 
protection. The picture is displayed directly under the 
glass that is why the interactive surface, as well as both 
crispness and quality of the image are just impressive. 
 
It will keep working even if every single visitor sitting at 
the table puts his hands on the surface. Additionally,it is 
implemented with gesture support, what means that 
every visitor can interact with the table at a 3 inch (8 
cm) distance above the surface without even touching 
it.It is made up of protective glass with shock proof and 
screen is placed below it with multi-touch pad and 
sensors. 
 
 
VIII. CONCLUSION 
Self-OrderSpotOn Interactive In-Built Console is the 
basic idea to develop the in-built console for ordering 
automation of restaurants with interactive ordering 
system. The system targets to provide each table in the 
restaurant with an in-built console. The in-built console 
on the table will help the person to have full access to 
the menu been provided by the restaurant. So the 
indirect communication between the people will help to 
grow the popularity of the course. 
 
This is been done to reduce the waiting period for 
preparing order. To implement this, server will be using 
multi-server querying mechanism.Thus this is going to 
benefit a lot to the people coming in the restaurants. 
Moreover at chef console, the chef will make the order s 
on the basis of first come first server basis. 
 
 
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[1] Hu, H. (2005). A Multimedia Ordering System for 
Restaurant (Master’s thesis, National University of Ireland). 
 
[2]Shelly, G.B., Cashman, T.J., & Rosenblatt, H.J. (2006). 
System Analysis and Design  
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[3] Purname, J., & Wibowo, A.Y... (2007). Wireless 
Application for Ordering Management System in A Restaurant 
 
[4] Sareyka, S.N. (2010, March 29). Restaurant POS - A 
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[5] Bennett, S., McRobb, S. & Farmer, R. (2005). Object-
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