JP2003288409A - Cooking system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To complete cooking until a scheduled time by adjusting the staff arrangement of each operator as necessary even when any delay is generated in an actual work. <P>SOLUTION: Control data are transmitted from a cooking control computer 2 to various cooking apparatuses such as a brazing pan 3 and a steam oven 4, and the various cooking apparatuses perform automatic cooking based on the control data. The cooking control computer 2 prepares the operation schedule of a cooking center, and transmits control data necessary for those various cooking apparatuses based on this. Then, each cooking place in a cooking center 1 is provided with terminal equipment 12 and 13, and when performing any work, the identification information of an operator and the start/end signal of an operation are noticed to the cooking control computer 2. The cooking control computer 2 corrects an operation schedule based on the identification information and the operation start/end signal, and re-adjusts the arrangement of operators, and outputs an operation instruction. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cooking system in a cooking center for supplying food to hospitals, restaurant chains and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, for meals for inpatients in a hospital, it is necessary to prepare a variety of menus according to the medical condition of each patient. Conventionally, however, each hospital has a kitchen where Cooked and served, or
I had to ask an outside food supply company to provide cooking.

However, as described above, it is inefficient and inefficient to perform cooking for each hospital because of facility and human resources. Therefore, in order to solve the problem, for example, as shown in Japanese Patent No. 2644187 (A47B 31/02), the following feeding system has been proposed.

That is, meals for patients at a plurality of hospitals are cooked at a cooking center, subjected to cook chill processing, and then packed together with tableware. The packed dishes are stored in a cool wagon or a serving cart, placed on a refrigerating vehicle for delivery, and delivered to each hospital.

In this case, the cooking center is equipped with various cooking equipment such as a brazing pan, a steam oven, and a kettle, and these are used to cook various menus. Cooking is done after accepting orders for menus and quantities from each hospital in advance. Then, while procuring the necessary ingredients for the received order, a work procedure manual for various cooking appliances of the day is prepared.

[0006] On the day, the worker puts the food in and out of various cooking appliances and turns on and off the various cooking appliances to cook, cools, and packs with the tableware based on the work procedure manual. . The packed dishes are stored in a catering cart or the like, placed on a refrigerating vehicle for delivery, and delivered to each hospital.

[0007] However, in the cooking center in such a food service system, it is necessary to manually create a work procedure manual in response to the received order, which is not only very time-consuming, but also the created work procedure. The work becomes complicated because it is necessary to put the food in and out of the various cooking appliances and operate the various cooking appliances based on the manual.
Therefore, the worker needs to be skilled in the work,
Temporary workers such as part-time workers cannot deal with it, and the rise in personnel costs is inevitable.

[0008] Therefore, the present applicant has previously filed Japanese Patent Application No. 2001-26284.
As 6 the following cooking system was proposed. That is, in the cooking system, the cooking control computer
An order is received from the outside via a communication means, an operation schedule is created based on the received order, and control data is transmitted to various cooking appliances based on the operation schedule. Each cooking appliance that has received it cooks based on the received control data. At that time, each cooking appliance displays the following work content on the display of each cooking appliance based on the received control data.

In this way, it is not necessary to manually create the work procedure manual, the work is simplified, the worker does not necessarily need to be skilled in the work, and a temporary worker such as a part-time worker can deal with it. It will be possible.

[0010]

In such a cooking system, it is not possible to cook only with various cooking appliances.
It is necessary to perform human work such as preparing food and preparing food, and it is necessary to assign workers to those works. Therefore, in the cooking center, when the operation schedule is decided, the staffing of each work is decided in accordance with the operation schedule while taking into consideration the sunrise work status and work experience of each worker. However, even if the operation schedule and the staffing of each work are decided in this way, the actual work does not always proceed as scheduled, and in some cases the work may be delayed and the delivery may not be in time for the scheduled time. There was a problem.

In view of such a problem, the present invention enables the staffing of each work to be adjusted at any time even if a delay occurs in the actual work so that cooking can be completed by the scheduled time. The purpose is to do.

[0012]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the cooking system according to claim 1 manages various cooking appliances capable of automatic cooking based on control data and operation schedules of the various cooking appliances. A cooking system of a cooking center comprising a cooking control computer for transmitting control data to various cooking appliances based on the operation schedule, wherein the identification information of the worker is input to each cooking place in the cooking center. Identification information inputting means, identification information notifying means for notifying the cooking control computer of the identification information inputted by the identification information inputting means, and work start / end notifying means for notifying the cooking control computer at the start and end of the work. The cooking control computer may include the driving schedule based on the notifications from the identification information notifying means and the work start / end notifying means. And schedule correction means for correcting the Yuru, re-adjust the arrangement of the operator in accordance with the modified operation schedule, characterized in that comprises a worker arrangement adjusting means for outputting the work instruction based on the result.
In this way, even if there is a delay in the actual work, the staffing of each work can be adjusted at any time, and cooking can be completed by the scheduled time.

The cooking system according to claim 2 is
It is characterized in that the respective cooking appliances are provided with the identification information input means, the identification information notifying means and the work start / end notifying means. By doing so, it is possible to correct the operation schedule and adjust the worker allocation by taking into consideration the work progress status of each cooking appliance.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention. The cooking center 1 includes cooking equipment such as a brazing pan 3, a steam oven 4, a kettle 5, a fryer 6, a blast chiller 7, a tumble chiller 8 and a defroster 9 for cooking various dishes. Note that each cooking appliance may be provided with a plurality of appliances of the same type.

Each cooking device is connected to the cooking control computer 2 by a communication line, and the cooking control computer 2
The control data is received from and the cooking is controlled. Further, the cooking control computer 2 is also connected to an air conditioner 10 for air conditioning in the work place of the cooking center 1 and an exhaust fan 11 for exhausting air in the work place, and the cooking control computer 2 controls the air conditioner 10 and the exhaust fan 11. It also allows control.

Further, terminal devices 12, 13, ... Are provided at each cooking place in the cooking center 1 for preparing, mixing, and portioning foodstuffs. The terminal devices 12, 13, ... Are a card reading device for reading the identification information of the worker from the worker's ID card and notifying the cooking control computer 2, and the cooking control computer of the start and end of the work. 2 is provided with a work start button and a work end button for notifying the user.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a control system in the cooking center. Each cooking device of the brazing pan 3, the steam oven 4, ... Has a brazing pan control unit 30, a steam oven control unit 40, ...
And the cooking control circuit 32,
Cooking is controlled by controlling a cooking means such as a heater via 42, ...

At this time, control is performed based on the control data received from the cooking control computer 2 and stored in the memories 31, 41, .... In addition, each cooking device such as the brazing pan 3 and the steam oven 4 has start buttons 34 and 44 for starting cooking, and I of a worker.
Card readers 35 and 4 for reading the identification information of the worker from the D card and notifying the cooking control computer 2 of the information.
5 and display devices 37 and 47 for displaying data are provided. Then, they are connected to the brazing pan control unit 30, the steam oven control unit 40, ... Through the input control circuits 33, 43, the display control circuits 36, 46.

The hospital 14, employee cafeteria 18, and restaurant chain 19 receive cooked foods from the cooking center 1 and heat the cooked foods.
Provide to customers, etc. The management computer 17 of the cooking company
Reservation orders from the hospital 14, employee cafeteria 18, restaurant chain 19, etc. are accepted via the communication line 20. Then, the content of the accepted order is transmitted to the cooking control computer 2 of the cooking center 1 via the communication line 20.

Further, the cooking control computer 2 holds cooking control data of all menus for cooking as shown in FIG. 3 as a cooking control data table. Then, when the order contents are received from the management computer 17, the cooking control data of all the menus included in the order are taken out from the cooking control data table, and the operating time of each cooking appliance is calculated based on them, and, for example, FIG. Create an operation schedule for each cooking appliance as shown in.

The operation schedule is prepared in this way to proceed with cooking at the cooking center. Even if the operation schedule is prepared, the preparation of ingredients, preparation,
Human work such as portioning is indispensable, and it is necessary to assign workers to those works.

Workers are regular employees, part-time workers,
There are various parts, etc., and there are various work experiences, and some work can be done by people and some work cannot. Therefore, in this cooking system, the cooking control computer 2 employs the employment mode of each worker, the work ability indicating which work can be performed, the workable days,
Workable hours are recorded, and if you refer to it,
It has worker data that tells who can do what and when. When the operation schedule is determined, the worker data is referred to determine the optimal staffing for each work in accordance with the operation schedule.

When the operation schedule of the cooking center is created, the start time of each cooking appliance is used as a reference,
The work schedule of the worker as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the display of the cooking control computer 2. Then, when each work display portion is clicked, a list of persons who are familiar with the work and who can work during the time when the work is performed is displayed. Appropriately select from among them and allocate the necessary number. After performing such operations for all work,
The result is informed to the worker by printing it out as a work instruction or displaying it on the screen.

By the way, in such a cooking system,
As described above, the operation schedule is created and the cooking at the cooking center is proceeded. However, even if the operation schedule is created, the work does not always proceed according to the schedule because a person is involved in the work. And in some cases,
There is a risk that the work will be delayed and it will be too late for the scheduled delivery time.

Therefore, in this cooking system, the card reading device as the identification information input means of the terminal devices 12 and 13 provided at each cooking place in the cooking center 1, the work start button, the work end button and each cooking device are provided. By using the card reading device and the start button, the cooking control computer 2 can know who is working at each cooking place and for what period of time.

That is, when performing the work in accordance with the work instruction sheet, each worker first reads his / her ID card through the card reading device and then presses the work start button to start the work. Then, when the work is completed, the work end button is pressed. Also, when operating the cooking appliance, first, the user's ID card is read by the card reader of the cooking appliance, then the food is set and the start button is pressed.

As a result, the terminal device 1 provided at each cooking place
From 2, 13 and each cooking equipment to the cooking control computer 2,
The identification data of the worker and the work start signal and work end signal are transmitted. Based on them, the cooking control computer 2
You can understand who is working for each cooking place and for what period. Then, the progress status of the work thus grasped is compared with the operation schedule, and if there is a delay of a predetermined amount or more, the number of workers who are behind the work is increased or the number of cooking appliances used is increased. Correct the schedule to catch up. Further, the worker is readjusted based on the corrected operation schedule and the result is printed out as a work instruction sheet or displayed on the screen to notify the worker.

After cooking within the predetermined time in this way, the hospital 14 is subjected to cook chill processing at the cooking center 1 and the packed dishes are frozen for delivery in the state of being stored in the serving cart 16. It will be sent by refrigerated car. Hospital 14
Then, when the serving cart 16 is sent, it is moved to the serving room, the power cable of the serving cart 16 is set, and the serving cart 16 is connected to the serving management computer 15.

The catering management computer 15 receives heating control data used when the dish sent from the cooking center 1 is heated by the catering cart 16 from the cooking control computer 2 or the management computer 17 via the communication line 20. , Write on the serving cart 16. The serving cart 16
Heating is started based on the heating control data, and heating is performed for a required time.

As the identification information input means for identifying the worker, in addition to a card reader for reading data from a magnetic card, an IC card, a bar code card, etc., a method of inputting data with a keyboard is adopted. You can also do it.

[0031]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it has the following effects. That is, the cooking system according to claim 1 is, in each cooking place in the cooking center, identification information input means for inputting identification information of a worker, and the identification information input by the identification information input means for a cooking control computer. Is provided to the cooking control computer at the start and end of the work, and the cooking control computer notifies the cooking control computer of the identification information notifying means and the work start / end notifying means. Based on the result, the operation schedule was corrected, the worker positions were readjusted, and work instructions were output based on the results. As a result, even if the actual work is delayed, the operation schedule can be modified to adjust the staffing of each work at any time, and the cooking can be completed by the scheduled time.

The cooking system according to claim 2 is
Since each cooking appliance is provided with the identification information inputting means, the identification information notifying means, and the work start / end notifying means, it is possible to correct the operation schedule and adjust the worker allocation in consideration of the work progress status of each cooking appliance.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a control system in the cooking center.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a cooking control data table.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation schedule of each cooking appliance.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a work plan of a worker.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Cooking center 2 ... Cooking control computer 13 ... Serving management computer 14 ... Serving cart 15 ... Management computer 18 ... communication line

Continued front page    (72) Inventor Katsuya Kobayashi             2-5-3 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Prefecture             Within Yo Denki Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 4B054 AA23 AA30

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A cooking device capable of automatic cooking based on control data, and a cooking control computer which manages an operation schedule of the cooking device and transmits control data to the various cooking devices based on the operation schedule. A cooking system for a cooking center, comprising: identification information input means for inputting identification information of a worker at each cooking place in the cooking center; and the identification information input by the identification information input means for the cooking control. The cooking control computer includes identification information notifying means for notifying the computer, and work start / end notifying means for notifying the cooking control computer at the start and end of the work. The cooking control computer includes the identification information notifying means and the work start / end notifying means. Schedule correction means for correcting the operation schedule based on the notification from The cooking system is characterized by further comprising: a worker placement adjusting means for adjusting the placement of the workers again and outputting work instructions based on the result. 2. The cooking system according to claim 1, wherein each of the cooking appliances is provided with the identification information input means, the identification information notification means, and the work start / end notification means.