Online Food Ordering System

Online Food Ordering System Project

Online Food ordering system is a process in which one can order various foods and beverages from some local restaurant and hotels through the use of internet, just by sitting at home or any place. And the order is delivered to the told location.

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Nowadays everyone is having busy schedule whether it is urban area or rural. But talking specifically about the urban areas and deeply about the big cities, people out there are so busy in their life that they don’t get enough of time to have their meals properly.

As these days women are no less than men, in any field. So in big cities even wives are working women, therefore mostly the small families manage to have their food ordered from somewhere, as they lack time.

Not only this is the case, if we talk about the children in the modern era they like only fast food or something from the outside. But they ignore eating homemade meals.

So food ordering system these days has one of the fastest growing market, though being a new idea. In this project we have developed something like the same to earn from and serve the nation in a much better way possible.

Nowadays, people are more regular to dine-in at restaurant for their meals. The online food ordering system provides convenience for the customers that are nothing special but the general busy people of the society.

It overcomes the demerits of the manual hotel or mess system and the old fashioned queuing system. This system enhances the readymade of foods than people.

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Therefore, this system enhances the speed of getting food in person’s plate and quality and manner of taking the order from the customer. It provides a better communication platform. The user’s details are stored using the electronic media.

The online food ordering system provides the menu online and the customers can easily place the order by just clicking the mouse or by touching a button on their smart phones.

Also with the food ordering system online, people can easily track their orders, and admin can maintain customer’s database and advance the food delivery system.

This food ordering system allows the user to select the desired food items from a list of available menu items provided by the local hotel or restaurant. The user can place orders for the food items of their like from the list.

The payment can be made online or pay-on-delivery system. The user’s details are maintained confidential because it maintains a separate account for each user. An id and password is provided for each user.

And several encryption techniques have also been used on the server side to protect the card details. Therefore it provides a more secured and safe ordering system.

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Existing System

In the present scenario people have to physically visit the hotels or restaurants for eating food, and have to make payment through cash mode most of the times due to unawareness of advanced technologies at certain places.

In this method time as well as physical work is required, among which time is something that no one has in ample amount. The traditional food ordering procedure is not efficient enough for hotels and restaurant, as they have to deal with crowd, in their restaurant.

The old methods can be classified into categories which are paper grounded and verbal grounded. For paper based work, the waiter comes and pens down foods that customers order and pass the food list containing paper to the chefs or cooks in the kitchen for further process.

Also from the owner’s point of view maintaining data record and the accounts in physical file is cumbersome and tedious work to do. And also it is full of risk as anyone can access it and modify the data.

Proposed System

This system is a bunch of benefits from various point of views. As this online application enables the end users to register to the system online, select the food items of their choice from the menu list, and order food online.

Also the payment can be made through online mode or at the time of home delivery depending upon the customer’s choice and convenience. The selection made by the customers will be available to the hotel reception or to the person handling work assignment.

Now this same person will assign the orders to the specialist chef to be completed within a fixed duration of time.

As soon as the chef prepares the food, the later person forwards the parcels to the delivery persons assigned with the location and customer identity of the customer along with the bill status.

With this application the work load of the waiter in the hotels are reduced or in some situations the work is abolished.

One of the various benefits of this is system is that if there is rush or a huge crowd present in the restaurant then in that case sometimes unavailability of tables cut downs the restaurants customer.

Also there will be chances that the waiters are unavailable as they are busy in handling others, so the customer can directly order the food to the chef online by using this application, by checking the seat availability in the restaurant.

This system allow the staff to serve customer within less time as compared to the manual system.

ER-Diagram of Online Food Ordering System

ERD of Online Food Ordering System

The above shown is an entity relationship diagram, depicting the working of food ordering system. ER diagram reflects the relationships that various entities involved in the system share among themselves, along with the entities.

Following are the description of entities involved in food ordering system:

Customer

This represents the set of customers, which are the clients who will be using this application. The customers are for whom the system is being designed.

Its attribute set includes:

Name: This is the name of the customer, searching or purchasing the products. When signing up to the website the name of customer is stored, this is done for the future referencing and maintaining the user’s data record (history). It is the composite attribute which contains two more attributes that is First_Name and Last_Name. That contains user’s first name and last name.
Cus_id: This is the identity number assigned by the admin to the users so as to identify them uniquely in future. This identity number is helpful in fetching data of individual user from a big set. This is mainly to manage the huge database system where the entire data is being stored. It is a permanent identity number given by the admin to the customer to maintain customer history.
Cus_order_id: This is the identity number given to determine and manage the sequence of servicing. Since multiple customer will place orders, so as to schedule whom to give the delivery first is determined by the help of this number, so as to maintain consistency in the system working procedure. It will be unique for each order a day. But the same id can be repeated on a new day, as it is mainly for the restaurant’s reference and to prevent any type of conflict.

Address

This field is for the physical address of the customer where the restaurant authority is required to deliver the parcels. It may or may not the same as customer’s permanent address or resident, but can be the office place or any place.

Its attribute includes:

Address_id: An identity through which categorization of places may be done. As address may or may not be unique for each customer registered. But still this identity helps the delivery person to identify the right place to deliver.
Zip_code: It is the pin code or the postal code of a region, and which is utmost important in any address, since multiple places, streets, bungalows with same name exist. This is even important in any national level identification of address. Also this will help the owner in surveying that which region has their more demand so as to expand their business in that region.
Phone: The users contact number is something that must be correct, because if at some point of time delivery person gets confuse with the address, it can be used for confirmation. Also the restaurant authority can contact to their customers for any type of feedbacks or to know the delivery service is good or not.

Orders

The customers places order, which is not only till here, there are some work that need to be done in the database in order to maintain records for keeping track on monthly basis.

Order_id: This is the identity number given to determine and manage the sequence of servicing. Since multiple customer will place orders, so as to schedule whom to give the delivery first is determined by the help of this number, so as to maintain consistency in the system working procedure. It will be unique for each order a day. But the same id can be repeated on a new day, as it is mainly for the restaurant’s reference and to prevent any type of overlapping of thoughts between customers and owners. It is mainly for the chef’s refrnce.
Cus_id: This is the identity number assigned by the admin to the users so as to identify them uniquely in future. This identity number is helpful in fetching data of individual user from a big set. This is mainly to manage the huge database system where the entire data is being stored. It is a permanent identity number given by the admin to the customer to maintain customer history.
Total_price: This attribute manages the total price sum of the orders user has made in one attempt. It is one of the most important attribute, since most of the times people change their menu order list contents depending upon their needs, health and economical situation.
Timing: Time is something most important to be valued. And one of the major reason behind the success of this food ordering system. So managing this cause becomes a goal to be completed. In order to maintain the business work better, the authority must stick to its commitment.

Payment

It defines the payment to be done by the customer for order placed from the web store at worth price. Also various security encryption mechanisms have been used, so the customer details of accounts and other credentials are safe and secure.

Payment_type: The user is provided with lots of options that he/she can opt for making the payment depending upon their ease. There are many choices available like net banking, use of wallets like paytm and i-cash cards, also the credit card and debit card options are available too.
Payment_id: It is for the benefit of user as well as the website owners, since the payment_id is helpful in maintaining the payment record in the database, as well as it is also provided to the customer after the successful completion of payment. As later customer can claim anytime that they have already done the payments and the owners cannot deny. So it is useful to prevent any kind of fraud from both the sides.
Price: It is the record of the total sum amount the user needs to pay, and after the payment, it is used to update in the server-side database to keep the record of the net profit or loss on daily basis.

Worker

The base of any company, restaurant or hotel is its employee. It is said that an Organization is known by its employee and work. Employees will work honestly and with complete dedication if they are paid sufficient enough money. On the whole its just like a food cycle, everyone depends on somebody.

Worker_name: The name of worker is important to maintain their database of work and payment record. Also if any complaints are filed then it is required.
Timing: Time is something most important to be valued. And one of the major reason behind the success of this food ordering system. So managing this cause becomes a goal to be completed. In order to maintain the business work better, the authority must stick to its commitment. Workers are paid for their good work and more than that for completion of work before time.
Worker_id: To uniquely identify each worker and prevent any type of redundancy in records.
Salary: The amount of money to be paid to the workers for their effective and on time work done.

Delivery_mode

The delivery sequence and choice is not same for everyone but varies person to person. It may happen that even some time a person says no to home delivery as he/she is passing by and can pick the parcel themselves. But it is almost an ideal case.

Urgent: In the some cases like un invited guest arrival, late night, people prefer to pay more and get the order delivered urgently. So restaurants manage such situations by not following the sequence of order place, as they are getting more than usual. And with other customer whom they have delayed they manage it with some small gifts or offers.
Normal: The usual mode of delivery, that is followed by the sequence of orders placed. It is the normal and majority case. The hotels manage do not need to put an extra efforts to manage these.

System Requirements of Online Food Ordering System Project

User should have appropriate version of windows.
System should have up to 2 GB ram minimum requirement for the application.
Application should be installed on system.

So, this is the overall process of making the Online Shopping system worked, and user can get the policy without any headache of agent and sometime don not need to provide commission to them.

About us

This feature will provide the information about the owner, team members or partners and developers, information like ranking of the website, average daily page visits, and journey (like when the system was launched, from where does the motivation came from) will be included.

Contact us

In this section, we have provided the contact number and proper email address, so that the customers can anytime write to us with any queries or complaints. Also their valuable feedbacks are always heartily welcome.

And our special team is ready to solve their problems and serve them the better way possible.

Careers At

This particular layout is used when we need some of the real talents to be a part of our business, by providing job openings. Using which people interested can apply and therefore will undergo further processes to get selected.

User Interface

This is one of the main task of the developer to design a graphical user interface that user attracts to and can use easily, in one word it should be user friendly.

So for this you should have better understanding of customers likes and dislikes and the features that are in trend and mesmerize the public easily, initially we need to locate the targeting people that what kind of application do they need.

After getting all this information we should start to design the application.

Future Scope in Online Food Ordering System

This project aimed at developing an online food ordering system which can be used in small places, and medium cities firstly and then on a large scale.

It is developed to help restaurants to simplify their daily operational and managerial task as well as improve the dining experience of customers. And also helps restaurant develop healthy customer relationships by providing good services.

The system enables staff to let update and make changes to their food and beverage list information based on the orders placed and the orders completed.

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Online Food Ordering System