FOOD PRICE DISCRIMINATING AND RECOGNIZING METHOD IN AUTOMATIC ACCURATE ACCOUNT SYSTEM OF SELF-SERVICE RESTAURANT

摘要

PURPOSE: To enable diverse management such as food material management and the management of popular foods, sales, etc., and to facilitate changing operation for new tableware by securely reading a discrimination symbol provided on the internal surface of the high part of tableware without any discrimination recognition error, and including a menu of dishes, prices, calories, the stocking of food materials, etc., as input data as well. ;CONSTITUTION: A user selects food on a dish 1 given the discrimination symbol 3 such as a bar code and a color code on the internal surface of the high place, mounts the dish on a transparent tray 4, and places it at a specific position, and at least the food price is discriminated by an optical means from below the dish 1. A menu symbol, a price symbol, a calorie symbol, or a food material management symbol, etc., is displayed as the discrimination symbol 3 preferably by printing of glazing.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1996,JPO