Identify a technological opportunity that you propose to assess. For each of the following criteria, discuss how your proposed idea stacks up.
Technological Opportunity:
ClickMeals.com (hereafter referred to as CM) will provide an easy to use and navigate user interface that will allow users to place online order at any of the participating restaurants within the given area. The website will also allow users to place order for weekly or weekend lunches and dinner choosing from the available cuisine types. Every order placed at CM will earn user points that can be redeemed for gift vouchers from the participating restaurants. The workflow diagram for site navigation is described below:
Click MEALS Order food online
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End product
This system could also be sold as a product to any restaurant. The product would provide a user friendly interface for menu, nutritional info and online ordering that can be incorporated in any webpage
1.3 Value added
a. Time Saved
The biggest advantage is time saved. For people who order frequently from the same place, they have the option of just repeating their order. Foreseeing busy days ahead one can pre order on the restaurant website so that they have fresh food waiting when they arrive home
b. Wider Options
You have wider and new options to research food. Online nutritional information allows sticking to special dietary needs like renal and weight watchers.
c. Small businesses
It provide a bigger reach to mom and pop type restaurants who couldn 't invest in an online system. House wives and stay at home mom or anyone who loves to cook and is looking for extra income on the side can advertise on this site.
1.4 Product life
The system could be sold as both as a product and a service. Restaurants could use this product incorporated in their website and customized to their requirements or they can be a part of a larger system where they would receive orders via the website.
1.5 Size
For the initial month:
a. We are targeting 15 restaurants from the Naperville, Lisle, Wheaton, Bolingbrook,
The products/services offered are a large supermarket, a wide range of food and non-food e.g. cd/video, books, pharmaceuticals, a cook shop, food includes:- bakery, meat, fish produce, dairy, frozen foods, tinned/packets, also a customer restaurant and a petrol station.
Food orders can also be placed through a website instead of being put on hold and waiting. It helps more then just business owners as well. Websites also allow people to take virtual tours of potential houses they may want to buy, venues to rent, hotels, anywhere a person may be interested without having to leave the comfort of their living room. What better way of showing off your work then a website. For example, barbers can posts pictures of their hair styling and allow people to review them. A website can become a very powerful tool.
A1. E-Commerce Solutions. Spice King houses its menu as well as a shopping cart for gathering orders. Payments are taken online through a company called Eat24. When clicking on checkout from Spice King’s site, customers are routed to Eat24’s secure site where they simply enter their payment information. Payments can be made via several payment types, including cash at delivery. Eat24 secures private payment information encrypting it with a SSL certificate. Eat 24 acts as a local restaurant directory of sorts. It boasts a pool of thousands of vendors who have delivery, pick-up, and catering. Customers enter their location information and it shows restaurants in that city. From there you can enter more advanced search
Discuss the topic you have selected, any ideas you have gathered, and what your product
The last external innovation of Kudler Fine Foods from other organizations is catering the organization provides (Apollo Group, Inc., 2011). The catering aspect has not been fully constructed into the business organizational structure, so their approach will stand out from other competitors. Their goal is to provide a link to customers on their website that will allow them to view and order specifics requirements for the event needed to be catered. The website will provide every aspect of what meals, desserts, amount needed, specific arrangements or design the customer desires for the event. With other competitors they require customers to come into the store location to make arrangements, whereas Kudler Fine Foods is providing options for the busy individual to make arrangements via Internet.
Portability of the customer rewards program is also critical to the evolution of Kudler Fine Foods. The group recommends that Kudler use a web-based Point of Sale system that will use the web browser to access and update data. This will also give the organization some disaster recovery and contingency options in the future. The use of many portable devices including tablets, laptops, and smartphone’s will give the organization portability and contingency with little to no application configuration.
functionality is that a registered user can rate restaurants. E.g., look at the \Add a Review
An upgrade to their internet website would allow customers to make purchases online for in-store pickup, local delivery or catering service. The major benefit to technology upgrades will be better customer relationships.
3. Research and report upon each of the three technology solutions. For each solution include:
The way we used to service our customers was creating far too many mistakes and frustration. We intend to bring harmony back to our restaurants by allowing the customers to input their own orders into our new system. By placing the responsibility in the customer’s hands, our employees will be able to focus more on the preparation of the food. This will alleviate many of the errors currently being made which in turn will bring down the stress level within the work environment. We are preparing for there to be a learning curve and possibly some confusion. A training program is already being created. This program will allow our employees to ease into the new system without a huge transitional period.
This new system will allow customers to input their own orders allowing staff to focus on preparing orders. With the new system, it will eliminate pressure as a result of preventing you from being overwhelmed with complaints about wait times or lengthy lines. There will be no waiting for customers to decide what they want to order or others complaining about them taking too long to place an order. The plan is to put the system into operation within the
1. Describe the overall proposal in terms of the business problem being solved. Some ideas are:
To owner, Rocky Aoki and his team, their understanding on consumer patterns became their advantage; the consumer’s distrust of exotic food and their enjoyment of eating in exotic surroundings, and the customer’s interest in watching their food cooked. Though unique, this system allows the business for greater control on the flow and options given to the customer.
When opening a new restaurant it is important to consider technology options that will offer competitive advantage, enhance profit, and work efficiently for the establishment. Three systems that are generally purchased for restaurant use are inventory systems, point of sales systems, and reservation management systems. All of these systems should be researched and compared on their functionality so the most suitable technologies can be implemented into the daily activities of the restaurant.
The proposed project is a single centralized framework that would integrate various order management processes such as orders details, maintenance etc. The proposed web based pizza management system helps in streamlining and easing the process of managing pizza order.