The outcome of the interviews was very good with the Manager and staff of the restaurant. Now I have to arrange the information I collected during the interview on rough sheets.
Input:
This rough information is refined later in the following bullet points.
- How many sheets should be there on the menu?
- How many dishes should be there on the menu?
- Prices for the dishes.
- Picture to make it look attractive.
- Colors of the menu
- Sections on the menu
- Types of the dishes classification. Viz Vegi.
- Contents of the dishes.
- Photographs of the restaurant
- Address and phone numbers
- Map showing the current position of he restaurant
- Some information about the awards won by the restaurant.
- Some information about the famous actors and actress visiting the restaurant.
The above information is fully used in designing this project. I am going to manually key in all the above data so as to make a proper menu. The menu will contain 2 sheets each having 3 sides. The first sheet willl have the front page, middle page and the last page. This first sheet will only contain information about the restaurant such as the contact, map, the history of the restaurant etc. the second sheet will also have 3 sides all containing the different dishes their prices. This sheet will be subdivided into different parts of meals and contain the specific information. By doing this and adding different fonts, pictures, colours I will finish my menu with the help Microsoft publication.
Outputs:
Different designs of the grid were considered, which are as follows:
- Like putting the whole menu on an A4 Portrait. These types of menus are good for in-house use but not for outside since they are big and difficult to hold.
- Using a single sheet of paper and printing the menu on both sides in order to save paper, but this will make the menu to complicated to understand.
- Use of a folded a4 menu, that can have three folds, this will make it easier for the customer to look at and is also not very confusing.
Hence I decided to have a landscape A4 folded menu. This menu has got three folds, so that it’s easy to hold and look at. Each fold now contains different sections.
Process:
Now I am going to state how I am going to achieve each one of the quantitative objectives:
- In order to prepare ONE menu of Total 2 sheets containing 3 sides each I am going to use the Microsoft publisher publication. There I am going to create a new sheet by taking brouchers then menu as my option and here I will automatically have 2 sheets with 3 sides each.
- To surf the net and collect Pictures and see samples of logos, I will directly go on the net and find suitable pictures using ‘Google images’ here I can easily search for different menu logos as well. I will insure that they are not copyrighted and so I will get permission.
- Text will be taken form Mr. Hussaini as he has the recipe for different dishes and then I am going to key in manually. Pictures will also be taken some from my own camera which will be copied and pasted on to the menu such as the picture of the restaurant and other pictures will be copied from the internet and then edited on ‘photo draw’ and ‘paint’ applications and then again will be pasted in the menu so that they suit the environment of the menu.
- All the contact details will be taken from Mr. Hussaini and then entered in the menu as text using the keyboard; these details will help the customers to easily contact Mr. Hussaini.
- The map will be taken from ‘Google maps’ and then edited in paint application and this edited image will then be copied and pasted on to the menu.
- In order to make a logo I am first going to use ‘google images and find a suitable picture for the logo then I am going to edit the picture in paint application and use Microsoft word so as to add the required title for the logo, this title will also be edited using word art so as to make it look attractive.
- The colour full graphics will be inserted form the Microsoft publisher application and also photo draw, the use of different texts and fonts will be done in Microsoft publisher application, by using these attractive images the customers will easily be attracted.
Backup:
Back up copies of files should be kept in case the original is damaged or lost and cannot be use. Because of the importance of certain files, back up copies of it should be taken at regular intervals in case it is stolen, lost, damaged or corrupted. Here are some of the backup devices that can be used:
- Floppy discs: since floppy discs are small and portable, data can be easily transferred from one computer to another, this is an advantage but as they do not have a very high storage capacity, they are seldom used for backup.
- Magnetic tape: this is often used when large amount of data needs to be backed up, but the access time of a magnetic tape is slow, hence is not so suitable for working fast.
- Optical disks: these include compact discs and DVDs, they store digital data as pits on surface of reflective disc. They also have a fast access time.
- Zip drivers or zip discs: this is a large and thick normal floppy disk, that can store up to 100MB or 250MB of data, and can be used to back up important files.
- Jaz drives: they are removable disks that are very fast at transferring data. They can hold up to 2GB or 200MB of data. They can also be used for everyday storage, just like ordinary disk drives.
Now after seeing all these devices of storing data, I chose the optical discs. By using these, the data is retained in the computer and can be copied on to DVDs for long-term storage and any future use. This data can be used to do market research, to find out the growth of the business over the years, which can be used for future predictions. These advanced functions are not available with the other two manual methods.
Security:
There are many types of security regarding for the safety of important files. These different types of security are mentioned below:
- Physical security of files: the computer that contains the important files should be protected from physical harm. As hazards such as fire, lightening, water damage, can cause damage to the computer and may cause loose of important data. To prevent this type of hazard, computers would be kept inside fireproof doors near no heavy objects, which may cause harm to the computer during earthquakes that contains the important files.
- Soft ware security: as viruses can corrupt the data in the files, antiviral soft ware should be used to scan the computer’s memory regularly to detect any unnoticeable viruses.
- Pass ward protection: soft ware can be written which does not allow access to a computer unless a password is keyed in. The password should be never showed on a screen, and be changed regularly and also never written down. This will avoid unauthorized people to see or misuse your important data. So you can also store any personal information in the computer which you don’t want anyone to see and misuse your personal information. This protection is not available with 2 manual methods.
So as I have mentioned all the security measures that can be taken, these will avoid the loose of important files and any misuse of these important files.
Flow chart: this is how the data is going to flow in my project to make it clear for the user:
Start
New customer
Arrives
Ask no. Of members in order
to give that no. Of seats
Give menu to customer, so that
He/she chooses what dish
He/she likes
Take the order manually.
Wait for food to be
Prepared.
Food is ready
Serve the user
Properly
Prepare bill then
Bill record
Handbill to customer
End
User comments:
To
Insha Afreen,
Student of year 10
Al Risala School
Sub: need to see improvement
I reviewed the menu designed by you and your idea to use the information that I provided you and it looks OK to me. But I think you can improve it. I want you to add information that provides the customers with a map and some information about free delivery, vacancies, etc. After doing this I think that your designed application will be fine. I have also seen your designed logo for my shop I think you can improve that as well. The modification/corrections highlighted above should be incorporated in the next review.
Best of Luck.
Regards.
Syed Mr.Hussaini.
Design
I started by an initial design of the menu by hand on an a4sheet of paper. So now I am going to modify it by using Microsoft publisher as my design maker and also considering the user comments.
User comments and action taken:
After looking at the user comments I had to add some information and change the logo of the menu, which was done successfully. Now the menu contains the map, some information about free delivery and availability of vacancies, it also contains some information useful to new customers. The evidence of this sheet is as follows: Before the action was taken:
After the action was taken:
Sub task list: The following is the task list based on the user comments.
12 mention that the restaurant takes checks, cards &cash. 22/04/2007 25/04/2007
Test Plan:
Description of the final design:
I took ‘menu’ as an option from the Microsoft publisher catalogue list and came up with a very pleasant looking design. The menu I choose first had 2 sheets, the front page and the content page. Then started filling in information that I had collected from the restaurant into the menu. More over pictures are used to give more attraction for the restaurant and persuade the customers to re-visit.
I took photographs in the restaurants and copied them from my digital camera to my computer folder. Some of the photographs were not properly matching the background contrast of the menu, for which I have to give them proper tone using photo draw. And some of the Photographs have to be cut and pasted to remove some extra parts. In the front page the Taj Mahal picture is selected from my camera, when my family and me had visited India to see Taj Mahal.
Some of the pictures were cut and re pasted. And others had to be edited in the Paint application. The logo for the shop was also made using the paint application. Taking the current location of the shop, I visited Goggle maps to get the map, edited it in the paint application and then insert it into the menu.
Hand drawn design attached
User comments:
To
Insha Afreen,
Student of year 10
Al Risala School
Sub: need to see improvement
I have seen your initial design but I don’t like the way the menu looks. I think you should make the sizes of the folds equal so as to make it easy for the customer to hold the menu. After this I think your menu will look fine.
Best of Luck.
Regards.
Syed Mr.Hussaini.
ation
Considering the requirements provided by the user, all of them have been successfully completed and results are good. The following were the problems faced by the user overall and have been successfully corrected:
- The Need of a very good designer to make him a menu was solved.
- Problems with the customers in choosing a particular dish as the dishes were just mentioned orally have also been solved due to the creation of the menu.
- Problems with the workers in memorizing all the dishes, their costs and their type were also solved due to the same reason mentioned above.
The following were the requirements of the user and have been achieved successfully:
- The requirement to mention the names of the dishes and their type in the menu has been achieved as you can see in the screenshots and in the printout of the menu’s
- The prices for all the dishes were inserted correctly in to the menu and were checked thoroughly.
- The requirement to mention a small amount of text telling the main ingredients in the dish has also been achieved.
- The menu as required have been divided into many sections that suit the customers accordingly.
- The logo has also been designed thereby fulfilling the user requirements.
- The contact number and the information about the free delivery have also been mentioned in the menu hence achieving the user requirements.
- Comparison of the logos has been successfully made and no corrections were need.
- The menu looks professional and easy to understand.
So, as you can see above I have successfully completed all the user requirements. And not only that but have also done some more things that were not expected by the user from me which are as follows
- The use of a map to show and represent the destination of the restaurant.
- The use of pictures to show the interior of the restaurant that will persuade visitors to re-visit.
- The use of pictures that show Indian spices and the Taj Mahal, which is the seventh wonder of the world, hence the pictures represent the name and the type of restaurant Taj Mahal is.
- A very attractive tag line for the restaurant that is very effective as well.
- The use of informal language to make the reader feel comfortable and homely.
The print out of the menu is attached with the course work.
Hence as you can see I have achieved all the things I needed to and also got good result for my hard work. This project helped me a lot, I learned how to use the Microsoft publisher application and how to coop up with things in short time, I hope I will face like these projects more in my life and will be able to do them better. The following page has the user comments for my final piece of menu and it goes as follows:
User comments:
To
Insha Afreen,
Student of year 10
Al Risala School
Sub: Final results
Finally the project done by you to design and build the menu for my restaurant is completed. And I am proud to say that it came out very well. The requirements provided to you are fully met. We will be utilizing this menu in our business and see its affect, and I am sure that it will improve our cash collection.
Best of Luck for your future endeavors.
Regards.
Further improvements:
For this project the following can have been the improvements:
- Inserted a suitable border for the menu
- Scanned the awards won be the restaurant and inserted them into the menu.
- Inserted the contact number.
- Added the address of the restaurant with the map.
