Financial
Unit Deployment
In order to develop a Restaurant Assistant system, one prototype, certain hardware will need to be purchased from a variety of vendors. The specifications and sources for the required hardware is found in the resources section of this appendix. The first item needed is a server, which will cost $600.00. A database management system is also required, such as MySQL, which costs $595.00. Unless already owned, a computer/database system will also need to be purchased, for $940.00. Wherever the food will be prepared in a client's kitchen, a standalone scanner will be needed, in order to scan the items being prepared. This will cost $325.00. For scanning in deliveries as well as manually adjusting items within walk in refrigerators and freezers, a handheld scanner will need to be purchased for $425.00. For each walk-in and freezer, a temperature sensor at $120.00 is required. A laser printer for printing reports will cost $150.00. When items are prepared, new barcodes must be printed and placed on the item; the barcode printer will cost $340.00. The LCD touch screen used at the food preparation spot, along with the scanner, will cost $700.00.
The total cost for hardware required in one unit will be $4,195.00. The charts and graphs below show a breakdown of the cost:
The pie chart below shows the breakdown of the unit development budget, breaking it down by each hardware component. The component with the largest cost is the computer/database system, which of course will be optional if the customer already owns one, as with most of the other hardware components.