Abstract: A restaurant facility patron location tracking system that includes a restaurant networked table management system and portable pucks that have an ID chip reader which associates with a table with a ID chip located at the table, thereby allowing for the real-time monitoring and updating of location of customers within the facility. The system is programmed to associate the customer location to the food order number and allows users to query the system to determine the location of a patron by food order number or to query the system to determine the food order number by location. The networked system is a networked control, communication and display system with one or more monitoring stations and wireless communication with portable pagers and the pucks.

Abstract: A facility status information networked control, communication and display system with one or more monitoring stations and wireless communication with a portable pagers. Each station displays a facility layout and has indicia representative of specific designated areas of a facility which is available for use. The indicia communicates to a staff member a status or a need in a designated area of said facility. The station has a touch screen and the indicia is illuminated. The system has a programmable circuitry. Each station and each pager are capable of for sending and receiving updated status changes corresponding to each specific designated area, sending page requests to other users within the system, and sending text messages to other users within the system. Statistical data can be remote collected and stored on a computer for analysis by a facility operator. The pagers can be programmed to operate in a desired mode.

Abstract: A restaurant table turn control and display system for providing real-time communication to staff personnel throughout key areas of a restaurant, comprising two or more monitoring consoles, each having a restaurant layout display having indicia representative of tables available for seating in the restaurant and for communicating to the staff other requirements or needs; a touch screen for activating desired status changes on the system; LED bulbs arranged in an underlying relationship to the indicia on the restaurant layout or software driven images depicted on the display screen, which can be a combination monitor and touch screen; and a controller circuit with programmable circuitry for operating and controlling the system, including providing status changes and communicating such status changes simultaneously to other monitoring consoles electrically operatively connected to said monitoring console.