Online networking system for efficient operation of restaurants and method therefor

摘要

Provided are an online networking system for an efficient operation of restaurants and a method therefore, in which restaurant customers and food material providers input order sheets and estimations of food material prices into a website and restaurants receive the order sheets and the estimations via facsimile so that restaurants serve more customers in circumstances of limited equipment, staffs, place, and time, and purchase food materials from the food material providers presenting a lowest price. The online networking system includes a service provider for operating and managing a web server that provides the website, restaurant customers, food material providers, and the restaurant connected to the web server via Internet terminals and a facsimile. Here, the web server includes a certification server for processing pre-registrations by customers and food material providers themselves, changes, and certifications of members, a restaurant server for managing menu information on restaurants, an order server for processing orders, a food material estimation server for processing the estimation of the food material prices, a mail server, and a facsimile server. Therefore, the restaurant customers or food material providers are directly connected to the menu list screen or the web page of the registered restaurants respectively so that ordering food or submitting the estimation of food material prices is simplified. In addition, the restaurants receive estimations in which the prices of the food materials are compared by the one-to-one price list via the facsimile so that the restaurants can purchase food materials at a lower price.