DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE FOOD ORDERING SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF CHICKEN REPUBLIC, OWERRI)

ABSTRACT This study is to design and implement an online Food Ordering System. The online food ordering system is one of the latest service most fast food restaurants in the western world are adopting. As industries are fast expanding, people are seeking for more ways to purchase products with much ease and still maintain cost effectiveness. With this method, food is ordered online and delivered to the customer. The manual method of going to their local food sales outlets to purchase food is becoming more tasking. Upon implementation of the new system, the objectives the study includes providing an avenue where customers will be able to gather more reliable information about what the fast food industry really does and also provide a user friendly environment between the customer and employee thus increasing the efficiency of the food ordering system. The system front-end will be designed using the newest Hypertext Markup Language (HTML 5) and Cascading stylesheet (CSS3) for visual integration. While the system back-end will be designed using Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), MYSQLi as database for storing of back-end information. During the development of the new system, each of these modules was tested with some test data. After each debugging stage, the module would be integrated into the main system. The performance result of the system was 99% as expected result.