International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)

ISSN: 2277-3878, Volume-8, Issue-2S3, July 2019

Online Food Ordering System

Trupthi B, Rakshitha Raj R, J B Akshaya, Srilaxmi C P

ABSTRACT--- An Online Food Ordering System is proposed the order personally or over phone, to offer the
here which simplifies the food ordering process. The proposed customer a rich experience and even to process the
system shows an user interface and update the menu with all payment.
available options so that it eases the customer work. Customer
can choose more than one item to make an order and can view
order details before logging off. The order confirmation is sent to III. METHODOLOGY:
the customer. The order is placed in the queue and updated in the The simulation first starts with the customer entering
database and returned in real time. This system assists the staff to his/her credentials (name, ID and password). Once that has
go through the orders in real time and process it efficiently with
been verified, the customer can place an order specifying the
minimal errors.
Index Terms — PHP, MYSQL, WAMPP, CSS, APACHE,
quantity of the food required. Now we get a window that
NETBEANSIDE, EMENUCARD, PERL/PHP/PYTHON. displays the order number, customer ID, food name, price
and quantity. Once the customer finalizes his/her order, they
I. INTRODUCTION are redirected to the payment window where the total price
is displayed and the customer can select the payment
The labour rates are increasing steadily year on year thus
method of their choice and then the customer gets a message
making it difficult to find employees. The food industry is
of confirmation of order. The block diagram and the ER
highly labour intensive and the biggest expense in the food
Diagram of the proposed Online Food Ordering System is
industry is the cost of employing the right kind of people to
given in Figure 1 (a) and (b).
do the work. One of the ways to reduce this expense is to
The above mentioned simulation flow is with respect to
use modern technology to replace some of the jobs done by
the customer's point of view. Now if you are an admin, you
human beings and make machines do the work. Here we
can select the normal login option and enter the admin
propose an “Online Food Ordering System” that has been
credentials (email ID and password). Once you enter the
designed for Fast Food restaurant, Take-Out or College
admin portal, you get the option of adding food, deleting
Cafeterias. The system can also be used in any food delivery
food or updating food. Any option of choice leads you to the
industry. This simplifies the process of food ordering for
food menu. Once the selected operation is carried out, the
both the customer and the restaurant, as the entire process of
end result, i.e, the added food or the updated food list is
taking orders is automated.
displayed and if you have deleted a food, that particular food
disappears from the main menu.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Various case studies have highlighted the problems faced
while setting up a restaurant [1 – 5]. Some of the problems
found during the survey in the existing system are listed
below:
• To place the orders customer visits the restaurant,
checks the menu items available in the restaurant,
and chooses the items required, then places the order
and then do the payment. This method demands
manual work and time on the part of the customer.
• When the customer wants to order over the phone,
customer is unable to see the physical copy of the
menu available in the restaurant, this also lacks the
verification that the order was placed for the
appropriate menu items.
• Every restaurant needs someone or the other to take

Revised Manuscript Received on July 10, 2019

(a).
Trupthi B, Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru Karnataka.
India. (E-mail: [email protected])
Rakshitha Raj R, Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka.
India. (E-mail: [email protected])
J B Akshaya, Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka.
India. (E-mail: [email protected])
Srilaxmi C P, Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka.
India. (E-mail: [email protected])

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ii. There will be a lesser requirement of staff at the

back counter.
iii. The system will help in reduction of labour cost
involved and also reduces the space required to set
up cafeterias in the restricted area.
iv. As it is an automated system it is less probable to
make any mistakes.
v. The customers can avoid the long queues at the
counter, with a reasonable speed of execution and
maximum throughput.
Figures 2 (a) – (e) show the snap shot of various stages of
the food ordering system on the mobile App.

(b) Fig 2 (a). The above snapshot shows the index page of
Fig. 1 (a) The block diagram of the Online Food Food Plaza, which provides various navigation buttons
Ordering System, (b) The ER Diagram of the Online to reach other page.
Food Ordering System.

IV. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor is language which began
for developing web applications, is also a general-purpose
programming language. PHP code is executed in a given
order where it is first started by a PHP interpreter, which is
then implemented as a web server module. The output of
both of the interpreted and executed PHP code is combined
by web server, which may be any type that is associated
with the created web page [6].
MySQL: It is an open source relational database
management system (RDBMS). MySQL is the central Fig 2 (b). The above snapshot shows the signup page and
component of the WAMP open-source web application helps the new user to register in order to make order.
software stack. WAMP is an acronym for "Windows,
Apache, MySQL, [7] and Perl/PHP/Python". From source
code MySQL can be built and installed manually, but it is
always installed from a binary package due to
customization. Although further steps is required to alert the
security and optimization settings.

V. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
A desktop computer with Intel Core i3 64 bit processor
and Graphic card 1 GB RAM, and Microsoft Windows 10
operating system was used.

VI. RESULTS
Fig 2 (c). The above snapshot shows the login page
Following are the results that one can draw from this
through this page user can login to make purchase.
system:
i. People can successfully order the food using the
proposed system.

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ISSN: 2277-3878, Volume-8, Issue-2S3, July 2019

places like college cafeteria, etc. This project can later be

expanded on a larger scale. It is developed for restaurants to
simplify their routine managerial and operational task and to
improve the dining experience of the clients. This also helps
the restaurant owners develop healthy customer
relationships by providing reasonably good services. The
system also enables the restaurant to know the items
available in real time and make changes to their food and
beverage inventory based on the orders placed and the
orders completed.
Fig 2 (d). This is the snapshot of order page through this ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
page customer can place the order.
The authors express gratitude for the advice and help in
preparing the manuscript provided by Accendere
Knowledge Management Services Pvt Ltd.

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maintenance. It does not require any human intervention and
thus can be called fully automated. There isn’t any
limitations as such for this system, however one needs to
take care of the smaller parameters like server breakdown
while this system is implemented.

VIII. CONCLUSION
An online food ordering system is developed where the
customers can make an order for the food and avoid the
hassles of waiting for the order to be taken by the waiter.
Using the application, the end users register online, read the
E-menu card and select the food from the e-menu card to
order food online. Once the customer selects the required
food item the chef will be able to see the results on the
screen and start processing the food. This application
nullifies the need of a waiter or reduces the workload of the
waiter. The advantage is that in a crowded restaurant there
will be chances that the waiters are overloaded with orders
and they are unable to meet the requirements of the
customer in a satisfactory manner. Therefore by using this
application, the users can directly place the order for food to
the chef online.
In conclusion an online food ordering system is proposed
which is useful in small family run restaurants as well as in

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