Patent ID: 8762208

Claim:
A system for providing menus to customers in a retail establishment, the system comprising: a plurality of mobile computing devices, each mobile computing device being for use by one or more of said customers; a database server containing a live database having menu related data, said menu related data being sent to said plurality of computing devices for presentation to said customers and said database server further containing a clone of said live database, said clone of said live database being a copy of said live database; wherein each of said plurality of mobile computing devices being for coupling to said database server to receive said menu related data by way of said live database; each of said plurality of mobile computing devices is authenticated to said database server to thereby allow each of said plurality of mobile computing devices to receive said menu related data; each one of said plurality of mobile computing devices presents menu items to said customers, said menu items being based on said menu related items; said menu related data comprises data related to different menu items and menu prices and each of said different menu items and menu prices are individually editable by an administrative user of said database server by editing said clone; said retail establishment is a restaurant; changes made to said menu related data by said administrative user are made and completed on said clone of said live database; said clone of said live database is automatically switched with said live database only when changes to said menu related data are completed on said clone.