Patent ID: 6853976

Claim:
A food and drink serving system or an eating and drinking place comprising: a customer-operated automatic meal ticket dispenser, disposed at an order placing location remote from a customer's table, which accepts a customer-initiated order, corresponding to order identifying information, and which dispenses a meal ticket to a customer, the dispenser including first transmitting means for transmitting the order identifying information of the meal ticket to a cooking location at the time the customer purchases the meal ticket from the meal ticket dispenser, reading units, arranged at customer tables, respectively, for reading order identifying information of meal tickets of customers, said reading units being operatively coupled to second transmitting means for transmitting cooking information including the order identifying information read by a respective reading unit and a seat number identifying information on the table in which the reading unit is arranged, and cooking information informing means disposed at the cooking location which is remote from the customer table, for receiving the order identifying information transmitted by the first transmitting means and the cooking information transmitted by the second transmitting means, and for informing a cook or a cooking director located at the cooking location of the order identifying information and the seat number identifying information of the cooking information transmitted by the second transmitting means.