Perspectives R-Keeper Using for Ecologization of Restaurant Activity

Abstract

UKRAINECurrent conditions of the Euro integrational developing tourism industry in Ukraine, there is a tendency of slow computer facilities implementation for automating the management of restaurant personnel. Wherein the ecologist's level of restaurant activities, customer service and works efficiency of most staff restaurants in Ukraine is lower compared to restaurants in the EU countries. At the same time, the transition problems from paper to electronic business and volumes accounting of preparation and dishes sale, maintaining a visitor's archive and a discount system, developing and implementing various managerial projects remain unresolved. Some aspects of the tourism activity automation problems and marketing have already been partially disclosed by us in a previously published article [1].Concern over the environment, a steady increase in the restaurants' competition, and increased consumers' expectations make reinventing the traditional approaches [2] to the restaurants' management. Among modern computer systems of automating restaurant activities, "R-Keeper" deserves attention, which in the restaurant hall is able to automate the work of many cash registers, several terminals, waiters and bartenders. In the kitchen room, it is possible to automate the operation of service printers and video displays.Full restaurant automation is provided by two program levels: cash and managerial. Cash (operational) level provides the sales process automation and the sales database formation. The managerial level (restaurant office) is responsible for the directories formation, access rights distribution, various settings for the cash level, the parameters setting of reports, the marketing programs development and implementation, and the necessary interaction with other systems.To automate warehouse accounting, the "R-Keeper" system provides for the StoreHouse program use, which allows full control of the production management process in restaurants, cafés, and fast-food restaurants. Compatibility of StoreHouse with the "1C: Bookkeeping" accounting system enables the user to automatically generate an operation log and a posting log in "1C: Bookkeeping" based on StoreHouse documents. A specialized OLE server provides "1C: Accounting" tools with direct access to StoreHouse data, which simplifies these two programs' interaction [3].