SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR CLIENT OF CATERING FACILITIES NETWORK SERVICE

Abstract

Applications for scanning and reserving tables in catering institutions are analyzed and their main disadvantages are emphasized. Based on facility clusterization by type and price politics the improved client interactive system that give an opportunity to view rooms, reserve tables, order a food beforehand, choose an optimal route to establishment and evaluate facility is proposed. Based on highlighted problems of existing applications for catering facilities networks there is a need in creating an Android application that allow user order and do the search of  places to eat or choose from list, build an optimal route to the chosen restaurant in real-time by using cartographical data from the Internet services, view photos of a restaurant’s interior and menu, choose and reserve a table by using a table disposition scheme or by facility’s photos, order a meal beforehand, choose a restaurant by price or users’ reviews and leave a comment about facility. To interact with maps and to build optimal routes cartographical services Google Maps are used. To route the route to the institution the request is forming by Google Maps Directions application programming interface. In application that is being developed the three-tier “client-server” architecture is used. Next technologies for developing the software are using: Java, Google Maps, lighttpd, MySQL, “client-server” architecture.