computer software for commercial food service automation, namely, a database of menu items and their prices, food preparation instructions, a database of food vendors and suppliers, tracking shelf life, waste of prepared food products and food cost, providing profit reporting and usage analysis, coordinating multi-stage food appliances and facilities, ringing-up customer transactions, repository of and reporting system for customer sales, customer frequency and customer purchase transaction data, tracking employee scheduling and employee time, providing accounting, supplier purchasing and inventory information, coordinating multi-unit operations, providing real-time data movement for business intelligence, and providing bi-directional business information