Meal Chain Intelligent Electronic Scale Version 3.0: The inventor innovates again

On April 4, 2018, the inventor of the "intelligent electronic scale" Meal Chain Intelligent Technology Team released the upgrade plan for the "meal chain intelligent electronic scale version 3.0", which is expected to further reduce procurement costs by about 20%. As soon as this news came out, it immediately aroused the strong attention of large chain catering enterprises. Mr. Tang Longbin, CEO of Meal Chain, said: "The original intention of this meal chain intelligent electronic scale 3.0 upgrade plan: on the one hand, the team technicians hope to use new algorithms combined with big data analysis to optimize the procurement mix based on real-time raw material price changes and previous year price changes. Way to help catering companies further reduce procurement costs (simply put: chefs can adjust their purchase orders according to the price of raw materials. You can buy less when you are expensive and buy more when you are cheap). On the one hand is the team More accurate image recognition technology and instruments will be used to record and analyze data from multiple dimensions to help restaurant owners identify the quality of food ingredients. On the other hand, many companies on the market have copied the smart electronic scales that imitated the restaurant chain to copy the restaurant chain. Dazzling, buying loopholes, the restaurant chain hopes to take this opportunity to solve the industry chaos. "At present, this epoch-making function is under development and is expected to be available next year.

The restaurant chain team is one of the earliest teams engaged in the research and development of catering intelligent electronic scales in China. It began to develop smart electronic scales in 2015, made breakthrough progress in 2016, and passed the appearance patent of electronic scales in that year. It filled the gap of intelligent receiving hardware in China's catering industry at that time.

Dining Chain Smart Scale successfully applied for design patent in February 2016

Immediately in 2017, the strategic idea of ​​hardware + software was launched, and the copyright of the restaurant chain management system was obtained in less than a year. The combination of hardware and software makes the restaurant procurement scene transparent and standardized, greatly improving the restaurant's operating efficiency, and using technology to monitor integrity issues, so that the bosses are more at ease.

At present, the food chain intelligent electronic scale is equipped with a tablet and a high-level camera, combined with the boss APP, employee APP, and supplier APP, while forming a closed transaction loop. Employees use the APP to place orders, and the supplier orders and distributes goods on the APP. The boss checks the situation through the APP. If the purchase data is abnormal, the boss APP will also issue a reminder; after the supplier delivers the goods to the store, the quantity is confirmed through the intelligent electronic scale , Consignee, when to deliver, through the camera, you can also record the quality of dishes, and these data are uploaded to the system throughout the process.

Receiver assesses raw material grade

According to Mr. Tang Longbin, the most difficult part of the food chain intelligent electronic scale is the automatic analysis function of ingredients. The restaurant chain technical team invented the "Credit Recognition Method for Catering Receipts Based on Image Recognition". That is, after taking photos with a high-definition camera, the convolutional neural network model under deep learning is used for recognition. At present, it can already easily distinguish between qualified products and unqualified products. If the shooting environment and light are not conducive to identification, the system will automatically characterize the photo as a "dishonest photo" for catering owners and leaders to check for abnormal conditions. Under normal circumstances, all photos are "integrity photos".

This technology has obtained national patent protection. Next, the food chain will also plan to use the spectrum identification technology in the military industry to identify more dishes and discover the internal situation of the dishes.

These data are recorded throughout the process, and the enterprise can view the past at any time, so the catering enterprises using the food chain intelligent electronic scale have greatly improved their purchasing efficiency. For example: the supplier's delivery time is more on time than before; the quality is more stable, and the return rate drops by 70%; the intelligent electronic scale can control the maximum receipt and the cost is effectively controlled; the entire receipt time is greatly shortened, reducing the workload of employees .

In fact, in catering companies with immature management, the cost of waste caused by the procurement link is staggering. Using this method can eliminate the impact of "unconventional behaviors" in catering purchases, and reduce the cost increase caused by weak supervision due to poor supervision and poor charging.

The latest meal chain intelligent electronic scale

About Meal Chain

Meal Chain is one of the very few service providers in China that focuses on smart catering supply chain. Determined to let traditional catering suppliers enter the intelligent era through the combination of intelligent hardware and big data.

The mainstay of the restaurant chain is the founder Tang Longbin, who leads a research and development team composed of professors from China Agricultural University and Hunan University, and Dr. Xiao Guangyi (including senior catering people with 23 years of experience). At present, the team has conducted in-depth research in the fields of big data analysis of food ingredients, near-infrared spectroscopy detection, image recognition and understanding of food ingredients, and open platform linkage, and has achieved certain results. Now it has obtained 14 national patents (including: 2 design patents, 10 invention patents, 2 utility patents, and 7 patent applications).

At present, 41+ cities have been covered, 5000+ suppliers have settled in, and more than 1,000 restaurants are in use. These include: New White Deer, New Discovery, New Changfu, Different Foods, Yunshui Cuisine, Tangxiang, Jiuguoyitang, Michelin, Dezhuang and other well-known catering companies are using meal chain intelligent electronic scales and meals Chain system.