Project
| # | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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| 47 | NFC-Enabled Menu Ordering System Area Award: RFID/NFC |
Patric Takagi Patrick Ding Yau Chan |
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| There has been a push toward less dependence on waiters at restaurants. For example, Chili's and Old Chicago's currently support a product called "Ziosk" on every table; a fully-colored, multi-functional, touch-screen tablet that allows restaurant customers to pay the bill and play games from the convenience of their seat. Our idea is to take this idea in a different direction, and implement a low-cost solution to restaurants using an NFC-enabled menu. Since NFC technology is very low-profile, the menus created would look and feel like any other menu on the market. Our device will allow a customer to use our specifically-designed NFC-reader to select their menu items by hovering over the NFC tag (this can be placed underneath a picture of the item or beside the item). The menu will contain an RF module that will send the order directly to the kitchen, reducing the work that waiters need to do. This will allow the restaurant to hire less waiters and will also improve any miscommunication between server and patron. Imagine if you are in a foreign country where you do not speak a lick of the native language. Our solution will allow you to intuitively point and select the food items you want, keeping difficult communication between server and guest as minimal as possible. This product is not designed to completely replace wait staff--it is simply an additional feature that will allow orders to queue efficiently and a reduction in the total number of workers that a restaurant includes on its payroll. | |||||