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46 lines
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## Restaurant Management System
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A very basic and bare-bone but still pretty useful restaurant management system
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with only the following features:
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1. Dashboard for tracking sales and favorite dishes
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2. Menu management system for adding and removing dishes from menu
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3. Invoice management system for generating and printing invoices
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Clearly not meant to automate the entirety of the restaurant with hundreds of
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features. But frankly if I had a small to mid size restaurant, I wouldn't go
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any further then this as that can cause more problems then it would've solved.
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For example, let's say a customer steps in on our moderate sized restaurant,
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then he sits down on a table and calls a waiter and orders a fried rice. Pretty
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average thing to do for a customer I'd say. If I had an enormous restaurant
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management system, it would've required the staff members to login to it and
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manage a plethora of things like table reservation, order tracking, raw
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ingredients track, etc. But do we really need things like table reservations in
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a small to mid sized restaurants where we can know just by taking a look?
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That's why I've chosen to keep things simple where it will actually be helpful
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and not get in the way. In our country, we have more small to mid sized
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restaurants than enormous ones. Therefore this piece of software will prove to
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be very useful to my opinion.
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## Project Structure
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The frontend and backend are totally seperated in this project and is kept
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under a frontend and backend folder respectively.
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The frontend is very simple utilizing only the following tech:
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1. HTML5 for markup
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2. Tailwindcsss for styling
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3. Alpine.js for easing the Javascript part
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And the backend part is also very simple using only php and mysql. Be aware
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that pdo_mysql php extension must be enabled as it's used to communicate with
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the mysql database server.
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The frontend and backend communicates by utilizing restful api. The frontend
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makes HTTP requests to the php backend. Upon getting the request, the backend
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then fetches some data from the database using pdo_mysql and returns a response
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to the frontend with some json data. The frontend then represents and aids to
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interact with this data.
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