ANALYTICS-BASED DESIGN AND PLANNING OF CREATIVE MENUS

摘要

In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for analytics-based design and planning of creative menus. A method for designing and planning a menu, wherein the menu comprises at least one dish comprising a set of ingredients prepared according to a recipe includes obtaining a user-specified ingredient that must be included in the menu, obtaining a user-specified criterion that must be satisfied by the menu, automatically formulating an optimization problem that evaluates a plurality of potential dishes for inclusion in the menu by optimizing over the user-specified criterion, and automatically selecting the at least one dish from among the plurality of potential dishes, wherein the automatically selecting is performed based at least in part on a solution to the optimization problem, and wherein the at least one dish includes the user-specified ingredient.

主权项

1. A method for designing and planning a menu, wherein the menu comprises a plurality of dishes, and each dish in the plurality of dishes comprises a set of ingredients prepared according to a recipe, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a processor, a user-specified ingredient that must be included in the menu; obtaining, by the processor, a user-specified criterion that must be satisfied by the menu; automatically formulating, by the processor, an optimization problem that evaluates a plurality of potential dishes for inclusion in the menu by optimizing over the user-specified criterion; and automatically selecting, by the processor, the plurality of dishes from among the plurality of potential dishes, wherein the automatically selecting is performed based at least in part on a solution to the optimization problem, and wherein at least one dish in the plurality of dishes includes the user-specified ingredient.