PROJECT PROPOSAL

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE FOOD ORDERING SYSTEM

(CASE STUDY OF ANGEL BAKER’S VILLE CAKES AND CONFECTIONARIES)

INTRODUCTION

1.0 BACKGROUND OF STUDY

The online food ordering system is one of the latest servicers most fast food restaurants in the
western world are adopting. With this method, food is ordered online and delivered to the
customer. This is made possible through the use of electronic payment system. Customers pay
with their credit cards, although credit card customers can be served even before they make
payment either through cash or cheque. So, the system designed in this project will enable
customers go online and place order for their food.

Due to the great increase in the awareness of internet and the technologies associated with it,
several opportunities are coming up on the web. So manybusinesses and companies now
venture into their business with ease because of the internet. One of such business that the internet
introduced is an online food ordering system. In today’s age of fast food and take out, many
restaurants have chosen to focus on quick preparation and speedy delivery of orders rather than
offering a rich dining experience. Until recently, most of this delivery orders were placed over the
phone, but there are many disadvantages to this system.

It is possible for anybody to order any goods via the internet and have the goods delivered at
his/her doorsteps. But while trying to discuss the transfer method ofthe goods and services,
attention is focused on the payment mode. In other words, how possible is it to pay for goods and
services via the internet? This then leads to the discussion of the economic consequences of digital
cash. What are the implementations from the view point of economic? Since the world is fast
becoming a global village, the necessary tool for this process is communication of which
telecommunication is a key player. A major breakthrough is the wireless telephone system
which comes in either fixed wireless telephone lines or the Global System of Mobile
communication (GSM).
What I propose is an online ordering system originally designed for use in college cafeterias, but
just as applicable in any food delivery industry. The main advantage of this system is that it greatly
simplifies the ordering process for both the customer and the restaurant. The system also greatly
lightens the load on the restaurants end, as the entire process of taking orders is automated. Once
an orderis placed on the webpage that will be designed, it is placed into the database and then
retrieved, in pretty much real-time, by a desktop application on the restaurantsend. Within this
application, all items in the order are displayed, along with their corresponding options and
delivery details, in a concise and easy to read manner. This allows the restaurant employees to
quickly go through the orders as they are placed and produce the necessary items with minimal
delay and confusion. The greatest advantage of this system is its flexibility.

1.1 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

As industries are fast expanding, people are seeking for more ways to purchase products with much
ease and still maintain cost effectiveness. The vendors need to purchase the products in order to
sell to end users. The manual method of going to their local food sales outlets to purchase food is
becoming obsolete and more tasking. Food can be ordered through the internet and payment made
without goingto the restaurant or the food vendor. So there is need for a wide range of publicity
and enabling direct order, processing and delivering of food through online system.For this system,
there will be a system administrator who will have the rights to enter the menu with current
prevailing prices.

1.2 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF STUDY

This study lays out a framework for a new system to be developed and brought to the market for
maximum use and to create an avenue through the web where users can log on to our server and
make a selection of whatever goods or food they like and subsequently pay via the internet. The
following are the objectives this would bring:

i. The home page of this web interfile provides an avenue where customers will be able to
gather more and reliable information about what the fast food industry really does.
ii. The products and services offered would provide the customers with all the different
categories of available products that they can choose and select from.
iii. This will provide a user friendly environment between the customer and employee thus
 increasing the efficiency of the food ordering system.
iv. There will also be an online purchase form with which valued customers will be using to
get in touch with any of their request whenever the need arises.
v. It will also help for easy retrieval of orders made by the customers.
1.3 SCOPE OF STUDY

In this project, a fast food company is designed and Angel Baker’s Ville Cakes and Confectionaries
is taken as a case study to enable customers order for food and get it delivered accordingly and
also to reduce the long queues of customers at the counter ordering for food and to reduce the work
lord on the employees.

The following things are among other things that are discussed and what the software would
handle:

i. About the fast food company

In view of the rapid development of computer technology in almost all the fieldsof operation
and its use in relation to information management, it has become important to look into the
development of online ordering system for firms to meet up with demands of the customers.
Therefore, the food ordering and delivery system will help customers and management to:

i. Advertise available foods in their company

The programming language that will be used to fulfil this study is HTML, CSS, PHP and
MYSQL.

PHP is a hypertext preprocessor language which handle server side language without traffic
conflict, though this may depend on the programmer.

SQL which the database language we are to use in other to handle our, and if there is any kind of
data crash or loss of data, the data can be easily recoverable with the help of SQL.
The front end language used are HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, etc. The text editor used is sublime
which is the all-in-one software for coding PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web
programming language.