40 lines
2.6 KiB
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40 lines
2.6 KiB
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# Ghost Kitchen
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A web app for ordering food that is physically prepared by automated cooking hardware — no human staff cooks the food.
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## Language
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**Ghost Kitchen**:
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A food-ordering venue with no human kitchen staff. Orders placed through the web app trigger automated cooking hardware on-site to prepare the food.
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_Avoid_: Dark kitchen, cloud kitchen (these terms conventionally mean staffed, delivery-only kitchens — a different concept from this project's fully automated model)
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**Kitchen**:
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One physical location: a single deployment with its own server, its own database, one Brand, and its own set of cooking machines. Kitchens do not share a server or database with each other.
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_Avoid_: Store, location (as a separate multi-tenant concept — this project has no cross-kitchen data layer)
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**Brand**:
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The single restaurant concept (menu, name, branding) served by one Kitchen. One Brand per Kitchen — not a separate entity shared across multiple kitchens.
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**Order**:
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A customer's placed, paid request, containing one or more Order Items. An Order is complete only once every Order Item within it has been picked up.
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**Order Item**:
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A single menu item within an Order. Progresses through its own Preparation Steps independently of the other items in the same Order, and can be picked up separately from them. Cancellable with refund any time before its first Preparation Step begins; locked once that step starts.
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_Avoid_: Line item (implies a billing-only concept; this also carries preparation/pickup state)
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**Preparation Step**:
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One stage of preparing an Order Item, requiring a Machine carrying a specific Machine Tag, with an estimated duration. An Order Item consists of one or more Steps performed in sequence — the next Step cannot begin until the previous one finishes. The customer can see their Order Item's full Step list, current queue position, and approximate time to completion.
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_Avoid_: Stage (use Step consistently)
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**Machine**:
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A physical cooking hardware unit at a Kitchen (e.g. an oven, a grill), carrying one or more Machine Tags. A Kitchen may have multiple Machines carrying the same Tag, working in parallel.
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**Machine Tag**:
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A capability label on a Machine (e.g. "oven", "grill", "assembly") describing which Preparation Steps it's able to perform.
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**Queue**:
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The set of Preparation Steps awaiting a Machine carrying a given Machine Tag, ordered by turn. When such a Machine becomes idle, it takes the next eligible Step from that Tag's Queue.
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**Operator**:
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The human role attached to a Kitchen, responsible only for physically restocking ingredients and repairing machines. Never involved in cooking or fulfilling orders.
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