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I think focus should be more on how to design data structures for reservations, assigning tables to waiters, etc

semaphores anyone to synchronize??/ what say

points to note
1. no. of attenders n guests m m>n(else restaurant is a flop !!)
divide m evenly to n... as in assign 1 to 1 then need be then 1 to 2
2. no. of chef n no. of orders m n<m use priority queue to extract order and assign equally to chef
3. people waiting

maybe semaphore is good here -- implement finite consumer producer problem in 1. and 2 .

@Anonymous, the question is about software design and not Algorithm design..

We rlly gotto think of the different ppl who will take  part in managing the various tasks of a restaurant, their responsibilities,various operations/methods they will have to perform and the interaction among the various members of the restaurant categorically.

We could delegate every task to an execution thread for example one manager, 10 servers, 5 cooks, 5 cleaners. Tables could be shared resource going through states that require attention of different threads - occupied, free, dirty etc. Similarly synchronize kitchen processes. All threads would relinquish control to the manager thread . Random thoughts but I think I would solve on these lines.