Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Restaurant or bar
Reexamination Certificate
2011-07-05
2011-07-05
Gart, Matthew S (Department: 3687)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Restaurant or bar
C426S072000, C434S127000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07974881
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for presenting nutritional information about food products. The method involves gathering nutritional data about food products, analyzing that data to determine a nutritional value, scoring the product, and applying a designation reflecting the nutritional score. The nutritional value score designation is then displayed at the point of sale for observation by customers. The system includes a data gathering function, a data analyzing function, a data storing function, a scoring function, a reporting function and a display function to perform the steps of the method described.
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