Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7355737 | Apparatus and method for two-color printing based on single color data A printer 10 has a reception unit 28 for receiving print commands from a host 12, and has print heads 64, 66 capable of printing multiple colors. A data processing part 24 applies a specific colorization process according to a prin... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7257547 | Service managing system A service managing system comprises: order terminals for enabling customers to view contents of service items and to order desired items, and being portable and driven by a battery; order-receiving terminals for receiving and indicating orders from the order termina... | 08/14/2007 |
| 6973437 | Computer integrated communication system for restaurants A computer integrated communication system for restaurants that includes a central server and a series of table units and staff units. The table and staff units each include a display and wireless communication device that enables customer request information and ot... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6961710 | Method for billing for advertisements printed on check-out receipts Advertising information input control module of a POS system receives advertising information, and a billing amount calculating module calculates a billing amount based on advertising information received by input control module. A payment confirming module confirms... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6945564 | Expense receipt diary with adhesive strip An expense receipt diary of a notebook-type (10) consisting of a front cover (12), a back cover (14), and a plurality of interior pages (16), secured together by binding (18) on one side. The front of each interior page (16)... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6808208 | Food/drink tab/check holder A food/drink tab/check holder for making it easier for the customer to be able to read one's tab/check upon the receipt thereof. The food/drink tab/check holder includes a book having a front cover and a back cover being pivotally connected to the front cover and cl... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6349971 | Adhesive transaction receipts The invention is an account management system using an adhesive transaction receipt, provided at the point of transaction, which can be directly transferred to an account register. In this system, the adhesive transaction receipt contains a printed record... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6050214 | Device for indicating a restaurant patron's status A preferred embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus for indicating a patron's status in a restaurant, the apparatus comprising one or more color-coded subsections on a device within the patron's reach. The present apparatus includes a movable ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6019393 | Planar means for indicating a gratuity as a function Optional gratuities in the food and beverage industry may be defined on a planar surface as a percentage function of the cost of meals instead of an absolute dollar amount. This eliminates the necesity of the customer having to perform arithmetic calculat... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5899502 | Method of making individualized restaurant menus A method of making an individualized restaurant menu for a customer desirous of avoiding ingestion of customer-selected ingredients. A database is loaded into a computer. Names of all the ingredients used by the restaurant are loaded into the database. A ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5887903 | Combined service check and tipping guide and method of use A combined service check and tipping guide and method of providing a combined service check and tipping guide to a customer is described. The method includes either printing a check to bill a customer for a specific monetary amount for services rendered f... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5819665 | Method of imprinting a single-ply imprintable receipt An apparatus and method is provided for imprinting duplicate copies of a credit card receipt using a single-ply roll of paper. The paper can be either coated on a first side with a carbonless coating that contains rupturable microcapsules, each filled wit... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5439755 | Magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic recording layer, an intermediate layer, a metallic thermal recording layer and a protective layer This invention provides a magnetic recording medium wherein visible patterns can be written, in which a heat sensitive layer is formed on a magnetic recording layer and a metallic thin layer is formed on said heat sensitive layer. The metallic thin layer ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5127880 | Multiple part guest check business form A guest check business form will properly align with and be read by conventional guest check processing machines. The top part of a first, heaviest ply of the guest check has machine readable indicia (e.g. bar code) printed on it. Below the bar code secon... | 07/07/1992 |
| 4723794 | Guest check Restaurant guest check or the like, comprising perforations which divide the check into at least three (3) portions. The first portion is for listing items purchased in a first category, such as food, the second portion is for listing items purchased in a... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4622256 | Accounting card A small card to be punched for accounting purposes has approximately the dimensions of a cheque card and is made of a plastics material that may be creased. Positioning holes defining a punching box are provided at regular intervals in lines and columns p... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4616853 | Food server aid A food server aid is disclosed comprised of a pad of preprinted sheets for marking of each table to be served, each sheet being printed on one side with blank spaces and notations corresponding to meal choices for each diner. The opposite side of each she... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4251093 | Restaurant checks A restaurant check and method for recording and totalling itemized food costs comprising a sheet for receiving indicia having an operative format of separately delineated digit columns and a stepwise array of cell groups aligned below the vertical columns... | 02/17/1981 |
