Web-based restaurant management system

Abstract

The purpose of this project was to develop a web based restaurant management system that can be used by customers to place orders for the available menus online. It can also be used to ease the management’s tasks of managing employees, expenses, and sales. The project was implemented because of the challenges of using the traditional system, in which all works and procedures are recorded on papers that are prone to data loss, hectic and time consuming in generating restaurant reports. With the use of questionnaires, observation and document reviews, data was collected from project stakeholders and analyzed. Data flow diagrams and Entity relationship diagrams were used to accomplish system analysis and design. The system was implemented using Apache web server, MySQL database server, Hypertext Preprocessor, Hypertext markup language, Cascading style sheets and JavaScript. System testing and validation was also done by allowing users of the system interact with it using test data. Findings showed that most of the customers were unsatisfied with the current system used for making orders and agreed that the introduction of a web­based restaurant management system that allows them to make orders anytime online would improve the services. The result of the project was a web based restaurant management system and the researchers recommend that other restaurant companies should embrace the system.