SEAT RESERVATION DEVICE, METHOD FOR SEAT RESERVATION, AND SEAT RESERVATION PROGRAM

To provide a customer with a time for consideration to determine whether the customer should make a reservation for a seat.SOLUTION: An information registration unit 10 receives unoccupied seat generation information including information on the range of a time for start and the number of unoccupied seats from a restaurant terminal 2, and stores unoccupied seat information as information including the unoccupied seat generation information and unoccupied seat identification information into an unoccupied seat information table 130. A sending unit 20 sends provision information including information on the range of the time for starting in the unoccupied seat information and the number of unoccupied seats to at least one predetermined customer terminal 3 by a push notification or a message sending service. A reservation reception unit 30 receives, from each predetermined customer terminal 3, reservation information including information on the time for starting which is in the range in the provision information and is specified by the user of each predetermined customer terminal 3, and selects one piece of reservation information from the reservation information received within a predetermined length of time from a predetermined point according to a predetermined condition when the predetermined length of time has passed since the predetermined point, and receives a reservation based on the selected reservation information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】空席の予約を依頼するか否か検討する時間を顧客に与える。【解決手段】情報登録部１０は、開始時間の範囲を示す情報と空席の数を示す情報とを含む空席発生情報を飲食店端末２から受信し、その空席発生情報に空席識別情報が付加された空席情報を空席情報テーブル１３０に格納する。送信部２０は、空席情報に含まれる開始時間の範囲を示す情報と空席の数を示す情報とを含む提供情報を１つ以上の所定の顧客端末３にプッシュ通知またはメッセージ送信サービスによって送信する。予約受付部３０は、提供情報に含まれる開始時間の範囲内の開始時間であって各所定の顧客端末３の使用者によって指定された開始時間の情報を含む予約情報を各所定の顧客端末３から受信し、所定の起点から所定の時間が経過した時に、その所定の時間内に受信した各予約情報の中から所定の条件に従って予約情報を１つのみ選択し、選択された予約情報に基づく予約を受け付ける。【選択図】図１