Patent ID: 6038546
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method for reporting nutritional information of food items served to a customer of a restaurant, comprising the steps of:receiving a service order from the customer requesting a meal including a first meal item and a second meal item wherein each said meal item includes a standard set of meal components and wherein said service order specifies a modified set of meal components different than said standard set; thereafterfilling said service order by assembling said meal items specified by said modified set of meal components from a plurality of standardized meal components;retrieving from a database a nutritional information component for each of said plurality of standardized meal components used in said modified set of meal components;aggregating, for each meal item, said nutritional information components for each of said plurality of standardized meal components included in each respective meal item to form a first aggregated nutritional component and a second aggregated nutritional component;printing an itemized list of said meal items and said aggregated nutritional components to produce a nutritional report, said nutritional report including said meal items and said aggregated nutritional components in an encoded computer-readable format; andproviding said nutritional report to the customer.