INGREDIENT PURCHASE SUPPORT DEVICE, INGREDIENT PURCHASE SUPPORT METHOD, INGREDIENT PURCHASE SUPPORT PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optimum recipe for each customer and enable the customer to simply purchase an ingredient necessary for cooking a selected recipe.SOLUTION: An ingredient purchase support device 1 comprises: a type classification section 2 for classifying customers into a plurality of types on the basis of at least a past track record of ingredient purchase; a recommendation recipe provision section 3 for providing a recommendation recipe appropriate for a type corresponding to each customer; a recipe selection section 4 for selecting a recipe from among a plurality of recipes including the recommendation recipe; an ingredient information storage section 5 for storing information on a line of ingredient merchandise sold on each online shop; a recipe-related ingredient provision section 6 for providing information on the ingredient merchandise necessary for cooking the recipe selected by the recipe selection section 4; an ingredient purchase reservation section 7 for making a purchase reservation for the ingredient merchandise related to the selected recipe on the basis of the information on the ingredient merchandise provided by the recipe-related ingredient provision section; and a shopping cart update control section 8 for executing control so as to include information on the ingredient merchandise for which the purchase reservation is made in a virtual shopping cart on the online shop.