Patent ID: 7321866

Claim:
A dish-providing assisting system for assisting a dish provider through a network, said system comprising: a dish-providing assisting server connected to a plurality of terminal devices through said network; a plurality of dish maker terminal devices which receive a dish order from said dish-providing assisting server through said network, the plurality of dish maker terminal devices corresponding to a plurality of dish makers; an ingredient-information database which stores ingredient information regarding ingredients, a set of dishes using said ingredients, and information regarding a plurality of dish makers having said ingredients in stock, and which is connected to said dish-providing assisting server through said network; wherein said dish-providing assisting server forms a piece of dish-set information representing a set of dishes with reference to said ingredient-information database, provides said piece of dish-set information and a price of said set of dishes, receives an order of said set of dishes, selects a dish maker having necessary ingredients in stock for said order of said set of dishes from the plurality of dish makers having said ingredients in stock with reference to said ingredient-information database, and sends said order of said set of dishes to a dish maker terminal device corresponding to the selected dish maker.