Patent ID: 8224700
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of restaurant customer management, comprising: logging a customer unit into a restaurant pre-dining system with a mobile phone of the customer unit; responsive to logging the customer unit into the restaurant pre-dining system, placing the customer unit on a waiting list for a table; paging the mobile phone with a page that notifies the customer unit that the table is ready for the customer unit; sending an interactive restaurant menu to the mobile phone; receiving at least one customer request of at least one service of the restaurant from the mobile phone; uploading, by a post-dining system of the restaurant, a bill for the at least one service from a point of sale system of the restaurant to the mobile phone; and performing a customer self-checkout whereby payment for the at least one service is submitted by the customer unit via the mobile phone to the point of sale system.