I have chosen to create a spreadsheet, for the use of customers and staff of a 'The Pizza Place' restaurant.

Michael Gilbert The Pizza Place

Implementation

Choice Of Project

I have chosen to create a spreadsheet, for the use of customers and staff of a ‘The Pizza Place’ restaurant.

There is a great need a computer system for ordering food within restaurants, as manual, paper ordering system have become out-of-date and many errors are made.

I have chosen to use Microsoft Excel to create my spreadsheet, as I feel that Microsoft Access is an inappropriate program to create my spreadsheet on.

Initial Design

The spreadsheet will contain different pages, on which, information will be displayed on the products available. There will be a sheet, on which, the order is to be made this sheet will contain all the formulae, for the bill to be made.

Problems Encountered

I had very few problems when creating ‘The Pizza Place’ spreadsheet. I made many changes with the layout of the pages, to make the pages more attractive for the customers and staff using the system. The page layout also had to be changed to make it possible to view all the options available.

Final Design

I will set up the spreadsheet so that is possible to accommodate all the features that are required. I will create new sheets so the selected information can be viewed under it’s own heading, such as Main menu, Pizzas, Desserts, Toppings, Drinks, Extras, Ice Cream, Choices and Order.
I will collect information that will need to viewed within the spreadsheet. I will put the information in to tables and allocate it to a specific sheet.
I will set up the Choices sheet using many complicated formulas, which will be used to create the bill ...

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Final Design

I will set up the spreadsheet so that is possible to accommodate all the features that are required. I will create new sheets so the selected information can be viewed under it’s own heading, such as Main menu, Pizzas, Desserts, Toppings, Drinks, Extras, Ice Cream, Choices and Order.
I will collect information that will need to viewed within the spreadsheet. I will put the information in to tables and allocate it to a specific sheet.
I will set up the Choices sheet using many complicated formulas, which will be used to create the bill (which will be found on the Order sheet). This will also involve using Macro and Spinner buttons, to edit the information.
Macro buttons will be used throughout the spreadsheet to create links between the sheets.
The layout of the sheets and the information contained within the sheets will be altered until, I am completely satisfied that my spreadsheet will be easy to use and so that all the information can be accessed.

Set Up Of The Pizza Place

What needs to be done?

Set up the spreadsheet in a way to make it possible to access all information easily.
Insert all the required information on to separate sheets under its own heading.
Validate all information used in the spreadsheet, use locks on certain sheets.
Create a Choices sheet using specific formulas, link with billing sheet.
Create a billing sheet to produce a bill of all products ordered, link with the Choices sheet.
Insert Macro buttons to link all the sheets to the Main Menu and the Main Menu to all the sheets.

How this was done!

I introduced new sheets in to the system, by right clicking the mouse at the bottom of the screen and clicking ‘insert’ and then choosing worksheet. I gave each of the sheets it own heading i.e. Pizza, Topping, Desserts, etc. I did this by double clicking the left mouse button over the tabs displayed at the bottom of the screen and entering the required name. These sheets can be accessed by double clicking on the tabs at the bottom of the screen.

2/3. I collected all the information required to create the spreadsheet, and recorded it in tables on the specific sheets. To make sure the information wasn’t incorrect I used validation rules within the tables, each of the validation rules are different for the different sheets, i.e. Pizza, The pizza sheet requires validation to stop employees entering incorrect prices, the validation stops any values not between £4.30 and £11.50, if an incorrect value is entered an error message is displayed.

The choices sheet was made by creating a table that was able to hold all the information required. I used drop down boxes to display the products available. I used formulas to input information from other sheets in to the table. Within the table there are formulas that work out the total cost of each product. I have used spinner buttons that can be used to increase the quantity of an item chosen by the customer. The transfer macro buttons are used to transfer the information from the table on to the order sheet, the information is made in to a receipt, with at total cost displayed at the bottom of the sheet.
The billing sheet contains all the products chosen, once they have been transferred from the order sheet, these are shown in list form under the appropriate category. At the bottom of the sheet the total cost of all the chosen products are shown, this is produced using a simple formula, =SUM(total) this formula adds up all the products displayed in the range of E8:E26.

6. Macro buttons have been used throughout the spreadsheet, on every sheet, creating links between the sheets. The main menu has macro buttons linking you to all the other sheets, whereas most of the sheets only link to the main menu via macro buttons. The sheets Order and choices have macro buttons to create a link between them and to the main menu. A macro button is used on the order sheet to clear the bill, this works by selecting all the cells used by the bill and clearing the text. Macro buttons are used in the choices sheet to transfer information from the choices sheet table on to the order sheet, which are then displayed in the bill.