[54] RESTAURANT CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM
[76] Inventor: Seymour C. Yuter, 407 Cedar Dr.
West, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. 10510
[21] Appl. No.: 705,126
[22] Filed: May 24,1991
[51] Int. CI.* E04H 3/04
[52] U.S. CI 186/38; 52/236.7
[58] Field of Search 186/35, 36, 38-51,
186/53; 52/106, 236.3, 236.7, 65, 6, 8-10, 33,
36, 73
[56] References Cited
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1,459,628 6/1923 Hockaday 186/41 X
2,405,294 8/1946 Delucchi 186/41
3,641,263 2/1972 Rhoads et al 186/49 X
4,074,793 2/1978 Yuter 186/38
4,184,050 1/1980 Yuter 52/36 X
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FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
2479313 10/1981 France 52/65
[ii] Patent Number: 5,193,648 [45] Date of Patent: Mar. 16, 1993
Attorney, Agent, or Firm—S. C. Yuter
[57] ABSTRACT
A restaurant construction system comprising a building having a first floor. A second floor consists of a terrace on three sides of the building forming an atrium between the terrace and the fourth side of the building. Both floors have dining tables and chairs with a telephone on a console on each table. An order-taking post is supported along the fourth side of the building slightly higher than the second floor terrace level and extends into the atrium so that substantially all of the tables on the first floor including those beneath the terrace as well as substantially all of the tables on the terrace can be seen. Thus an order-taking person with a telephone in the order-taking post can see a patron at any of the tables while taking his or her order over the phone, and enter the order on an input terminal of a fine dining restaurant computer system. The bar is positioned below the order-taking post. An outward extension of the fourth side of the building along the ordertaking post permits a person in the order-taking post to identify patrons at the entrance. A video camera mounted on the outside of the fourth side of the building views the license plates of cars at the entrance of the restaurant, with its video display at the order-taking post.
44 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets
