COMPANY CAFETERIA MANAGEMENT TERMINAL APPARATUS

To provide a function to increase awareness of reservations and encourage early advanced reservation by users of a company cafeteria, by a plurality of company cafeteria terminal apparatuses installed in a company cafeteria with advanced reservation only.SOLUTION: Each individual is pre-registered, meal reservation information for individual, date, and time zone 121 held in a RAM 12 is referred to at the time of payment imprinting, whether or not the terminal has a reservation at a current time, whether or not another terminal has a reservation at the current time, and whether or not a next reservation is made are confirmed, and guide information of a reservation state for using a cafeteria is provided. In addition, it is possible to make users of the cafeteria aware that advanced reservations are preferred as early as possible. Furthermore, a function to prompt keystrokes to improve recognition that a reservation is not made and should be made by determining a grace period as practice and proficiency period to transition to a company cafeteria with advanced reservation only, is provided.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】完全予約制の社員食堂に設置される複数台の社員食堂端末装置が、社員食堂の利用者に対し予約意識の向上と早期の事前予約を促進させる機能を提供する。【解決手段】個人単位に予め登録し、ＲＡＭ１２に保持する個人別・日別・時間帯別食事予約情報１２１を決済打刻時に参照し、現在時刻の当該端末の予約有無および当該時刻に他端末に予約が有るかどうか、次回の予約がされているかどうかを確認し食堂利用の予約状況のガイド情報を提供する。また、食堂利用者に対し、なるべく早期に、事前予約が好ましい事を意識づけることが可能となる。また、完全予約制の社員食堂に移行する練習、習熟期間として猶予期限の判断により、予約がされていない、しなければならなくなる認識を向上させるためのキー入力を促す機能を提供する。【選択図】図１