Patent ID: 7467101

Claim:
A product ordering system comprising: a plurality of ordering terminals installed on tables which acquire order information by prompting an orderer to select and order desired products or services, an identification information acquisition section, provided in each ordering terminal, that acquires orderer identification information that identifies the orderer; an order information management section that manages order information acquired from the ordering terminals by correlating with orderer identification information acquired by the identification information acquisition section equipped on the ordering terminals; and a seating information management section which manages seating information that contains table identification information that identifies the tables and the ordering terminals, and information correlated with the orderer identification information of the orderer which is seated at one of the tables, the seating information management section comprising, a seating information generation section that generates seating information that correlates the table identification information of the table at which the orderer is seated and the orderer identification information when the identification information acquisition section of the ordering terminal installed at the table acquires the orderer identification information, a seating information database that stores at least the seating information by correlating with generation time in the form of information on a date and time at which the seating information was generated and that stores seating log information which refers to log information of past seating information that has been updated by movement of the orderer to a different table when the orderer specified with the orderer identification code has been moved to a different table, and a seating information updating section that updates the seating information to a most recent seating information based on the generation time when there is a plurality of seating information containing the same orderer identification information in a seating information database.