Any idea for server/software/website for LAN food ordering?
Posted by Masterblaster1080@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 11 comments
Hey there,
our company has a canteen for around 200 people and the way we are ordering food for the week is that our kitchen staff is sending out the menu a week before via mail and each user is writing a response mail with the days and menus he/she wants for each day. I'm curious if you guys have or have heard of a website/software solution that would let our kitchen staff manage the menus and let people order food with their AD accounts?
techw1z@reddit
that's like a 50 to 100$ job for a webdev on fiverr
a_bored_lad@reddit
That's actually super cool! A lot of the people here have some great ideas also! Can I ask if you have an internal dev team? Even a simple on prem solution would work for this.
You can integrate into your intranet with lots of useful features, menus updates, allergens, requests, and even a section for dept managers to request special lunches or meals for their teams!
You can also use some semi made solutions like wordpress, that allows to sync to your AD and use those accounts to make request, the reason why you would need a Dev team or someone with frontend experience is to make those changes to the html and CSS or whatever is used.
_BoNgRiPPeR_420@reddit
They could send out a weekly email with Microsoft Forms where people can easily check a box with what they want and hit submit.
Totallynotaswede@reddit
Use this, it's almost the same thing as you want to do. Guide and overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjUiQHCAeg
Floh4ever@reddit
Some colleagues made something for our canteen back when we were trainees but back then.
If you have a dev on your team you could easily spin up a new page on your intranet or spin up another little webserver where kitchen leadership can - and this is important - VERY easily put in their upcoming menu.
Then you could do stuff like generate a reminder mail for everyone if the menu is posted or updated.
Have something simple for them to fill it out (drop-downs or checkboxes....). Get AD-connectivity with LDAP if you don't already have it and feed the results into an easy to read and easy to access form for kitchen staff.
At least that's how I would try to do it.
pdp10@reddit
In the pre-CMS era, I'm pretty sure we had our maintainers using Dreamweaver. It let them insert holiday-themed unoptimized GIFs and so forth.
Tymanthius@reddit
This sounds like you want to buy some ones's already done online ordering app. I mean, Chic fil a, papa johns, dominio's, EVERYONE already has this. Just find out what they use and buy it.
pdp10@reddit
Global takeaway chains have had decades to get competitive advantage by honing their electronic ordering, and have. Chik-Fil-A is moderately well known for running Kubernetes on-premises on miniserver hardware.
bloodlorn@reddit
Heck, even a quick SharePoint site would be better than what they are doing.
pdp10@reddit
We built an Intranet form for this in the 1990s. As I recall, it was actually HR staff who ran it after, as the canteen was staffed by a contracting agency.
It was one of our three most popular features, along with the internal telephone directory and webmail.
slugshead@reddit
We just queue up in the canteen