Patent ID: 11935144
Assignee: TILLSTER, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A method of using a cloud-accessible data center operable with a point of sale (POS) system associated with a plurality of restaurants, the method comprising:
receiving, at a cloud-accessible data center, a request from a wireless mobile computing device for a specific customer to check in;
automatically identifying, with the cloud-accessible data center, one of the plurality of restaurants with which to create an open ticket for adding food items in response to the request;
providing instructions to the POS, via a separately addressable interface configured to communicate with the POS, to automatically create the open ticket in the POS system for the identified restaurant;
querying a remote database for information associated with the specific customer;
sending, via the cloud-accessible data center, the specific customer information to the POS system to be added to the open ticket so that the open ticket is uniquely associated with the specific customer; and
causing at least a portion of the specific customer information to be displayed at the identified one of the plurality of restaurants before the wireless mobile computing device arrives at the identified one of the plurality of restaurants.