Restaurant Management System  
                             (FineDine) 
                                      
                                      
           A dissertation submitted for the Degree of Master of 
                        Information Technology 
                                      
                                      
        
                           W. A. R. S. SILVA 
               University of Colombo School of Computing 
                                   2018 
                                      
                                                                                              
                                                                                                                    
         
         
                                                                   
                             ABSTRACT 
                         MIT 3101- Individual Project 
                              (FineDine) 
         Nowadays technology touches every facet of our lives as it always has but with the emergence 
         of mobile devices and cloud computing making more of an impact than ever, you’d be hard 
         pressed to go anywhere and not find a high-tech piece of hardware or software around. These 
         advances have made an impact everywhere, and one of the places we’re seeing more and more 
         technology is in the food and restaurant industry. 
         Basically most of restaurants current approach focusing on the manual labor and most of the 
         operations are doing by human initiative. This makes the whole business process inefficient and 
         time consuming because the current system consumes more time to carry out its operations the 
         loss of time will be directly influencing the productivity of the restaurant. 
         FineDine  is  a  tablet-based  restaurant  management  system  for  the  food,  beverage,  and 
         hospitality industry, designed to save time and increase restaurant's revenue by making the 
         process of restaurant management easier. It also helps to create repeat business building a 
         stronger relationship with your customers and restaurant staff. 
         When comes to system features Stock/Inventory management module is the one feature that 
         offers real-time tracking of inventory which reduces or eliminates waste, theft or inconsistency 
         in stock levels. Based on the rise in the prices of any of the ingredients the menu prices also 
         gets updated which makes the process of menu updating based on the price changes in the 
         market a hassle free process. In other hand system enables two way communication between 
         kitchen staff and customer through real time communication. When customer making order he 
         or she can give some instructions regarding how they want, as an example when they required 
         less salt, they can inform that to kitchen staff. And also kitchen staff can inform to customer 
         how long they take to prepare the food.  
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
                     Acknowledgement 
        I would like to thank all those who helped me in this project. I would also like to pay my sincere 
        gratitude to all the lecturers who have helped me to accomplish this task. I also take this 
        opportunity to pay my sincere gratitude to Dr. Lakshman Jayarthne. .Who gave me the 
        required knowledge to accomplish the project. And finally I would like to pay my gratitude to 
        all the staff members of UCSC and all the participants who gave there valuable contribution to 
        make this task a success. 
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
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                                                              Table of Contents 
                     1    Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 
                        1.1    The Problem Statement ............................................................................................... 1 
                        1.2    Scope of Project .......................................................................................................... 1 
                     2    Background ........................................................................................................................ 5 
                        2.1    Similar systems ........................................................................................................... 5 
                          2.1.1     Waiter One ........................................................................................................... 5 
                          2.1.2     E la Carte ............................................................................................................. 6 
                          2.1.3     Expodine .............................................................................................................. 6 
                          2.1.4     PeachWorks ......................................................................................................... 7 
                          2.1.5     Aldelo .................................................................................................................. 7 
                     3    System Analysis and Design ............................................................................................. 8 
                        3.1    Current Process ........................................................................................................... 8 
                          3.1.1     Waiter based restaurants –Current process .......................................................... 8 
                          3.1.2     Self-service restaurants – current process ........................................................... 8 
                          3.1.3     Business Activity Model ..................................................................................... 9 
                          3.1.4     Drawbacks of the current system ........................................................................ 9 
                        3.2    Functional and nonfunctional requirements.............................................................. 12 
                          3.2.1     Functional Requirements ................................................................................... 12 
                          3.2.2     Non-functional requirements ............................................................................. 12 
                        3.3    Proposed solution ...................................................................................................... 13 
                          3.3.1     Order management system ................................................................................ 13 
                          3.3.2     Web solution ...................................................................................................... 14 
                          3.3.3     Supply chain management system ..................................................................... 14 
                        3.4    Hardware software requirement ................................................................................ 15 
                          3.4.1     Development environment ................................................................................ 15 
                          3.4.2     Client environment ............................................................................................ 16 
                        3.5    Methodology ............................................................................................................. 16 
                          3.5.1     Agile metrology ................................................................................................. 16 
                        3.6    Design ....................................................................................................................... 17 
                          3.6.1     Use case Diagram .............................................................................................. 19 
                          3.6.2     Database Design ................................................................................................ 24 
                        3.7    User Interface Design ............................................................................................... 25 
                          3.7.1     Mobile Solution ................................................................................................. 25 
                          3.7.2     Web Solution ..................................................................................................... 26 
                     4    Implementation ................................................................................................................ 28 
                        4.1    Architecture .............................................................................................................. 28 
                          4.1.1     Technologies used ............................................................................................. 29 
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