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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2021
Toast, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Richard W. Jagolta, Gloucester, MA (US);
Adam Dziki, Malden, MA (US);
Seong Hyun Hwang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Toast, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for predicting preparation times includes: retrieving set of item-level records from a database for preparation menu items for all subscriber restaurants; training and executing a first neural network to generate embeddings for each of the menu items; for a first subset of the set, calculating actual item-level preparation time vectors; for a second subset of the historical set, generating estimated item-level preparation time vectors; retrieving a set of order-level records for preparation of orders from the database; training a second neural network to predict the order-level preparation times, wherein inputs to the second neural network comprise one or more of the item-level preparation time vectors and metadata taken from the order-level records; and following training, executing the second neural network to generate predicted order-level preparation times for current orders within a restaurant.