I used short order cook at a very small restaurant. We didn't write anything down the waitress would just go take like 5 orders and tell me and I was supposed to remember. Of course it was so small I could hear her in the midst of all this so I'd be starting everything as I hear it. I'm not sure why she didn't just write things down, she says that would slow her down. Of course, I ended up slowing things down because I would forget stuff and have to ask her while she was doing other things.

So my idea is to create a restaurant menu on a pda or iphone, that a waitress can take orders on and send them to a server which would print out a ticket for the cook(s). this way, the waitress could go on endlessly taking orders, and not have to go bother plugging orders into a machine and/or barking orders at the lazy cooks.

It would have to be reprogrammable, for things such as such as price changes, new food items to add/remove, special orders (cheeseburger no onion). Also, the server should be able to communicate with multiple devices for multiple waitresses.

To expand on this idea is the potential of creating a server program to document all sales/inventory.

I'm pretty sure this is already a commercial product some company sells to restaurants.

I want to see the open source community make this happen and release it FOR FREE. KTHXBYE

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