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help at my father’s
restaurant on Friday and
Saturday evenings,” says
Ehsan Rahman.
That establishment is the
Khyber Tandoori, an Indian
restaurant based in Kingswood,
Surrey (magpi.cc/2miqcqv).
Thanks to the Raspberry
Pi, it has become a highly
automated environment.
Two years ago, Ehsan became
frustrated at writing orders on pen
Projects SHOWCASE
How one Indian restaurant used Raspberry Pi
to automate its whole kitchen ordering system
aiting staff W
use an Amazon
Fire HD to
take orders
The Khyber
Tandoori is
a 50-seater
restaurant
The online
system took 27
orders in its first
two weeks
The EPOS
system has
been in use for
eight months
Customers get
live updates on
waiting times
Quick
Facts
A Camera Module scans the printer
order as it comes through. This
scan is used to provide a backup
PIORDER
The Raspberry Pi, housed inside
the box, hosts an Apache web
server to provide web access
“I
The Pipsta printer is used to print
out the order. The kitchen staff tear
off the order and cook the food
EHSAN RAHMAN
Formerly a waiter at his
father’s restaurant, he is now
a Platform Reliability Engineer.
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and paper. Ehsan’s answer was to
code and hack his way out.
The result is PiOrder, a fully
automated EPOS (electronic point
of sale) system. PiOrder comprises
Raspberry Pis, several Pi Camera
Modules, and a Pipsta thermal
printer (magpi.cc/2miwYMQ).
The waiting staff use large Kindle
Fire tablets to take orders. Two
smaller tablets are kept near the
phones so staff can take orders
over the telephone.
In the kitchen is a Raspberry Pi
board hosting the Apache website.
A program written in PHP and HTML
is used to provide the webpages.
Apache is used to host the
webpage used by the waiting staff
to take orders. It also offers online
ordering for takeaway customers.
Chefs are alerted to new orders
via a speaker attached to the
Raspberry Pi.
The Pipsta printer also prints
a hard copy of the order, and a