DEVELOPMENT OF A MEAL ORDERING SYSTEM FOR MOUNTAIN TOP UNIVERSITY CAFETERIA

Abstract

Over the year, people walk to restaurant to get their food while some walk to market to get ingredient for food, but in this modern day’s people can easily order for what they desire or want. Nowadays, people do not have time to wait at restaurant, join queue for food, so they prefer to order for their food online which solves many problems such as overcrowding, long queue, long wait time etc. at restaurant. The aim and objective of the system is to develop an information system that can be used by members (staff) of the university community to order for their meals in a convenient manner, identify the requirement of meal ordering system, specify the design of the system, implement the system and test the implemented system. To achieve this, the system was developed using one of Agile methodology (Extreme programming) which helped us to ascertain the steps needed to build the system. The system developed helps staffs to order for food and get delivery of food at a precise location stated by them. Also, the system allows cafeteria food vendors to manage (add or remove) food on display screen and respond to already ordered food so as to notify the staff of the delivery time of the booked meal. The result after ordering the food will appear on the vendor screen, who will send a confirmation message and prepare the food ordered. The system is the combination of Android and iOS and is built using flutter framework and firebase as the database.