Course Project: Buffet System

Overview

This project is a course assignment for the subject "Programming (Object-Oriented Technologies and Languages)." It implements a class hierarchy system to simulate customer service in a buffet environment.

Features

• Display of available menu items.
• Order placement and management.
• Dynamic object-oriented structure using inheritance and polymorphism.
• Basic user interaction via the console.

Technologies Used

• C++
• Standard Template Library (STL)
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles

How to Run

1. Clone the repository.

2. Create a build directory and navigate into it:

mkdir build
cd build

3. Run CMake to generate the build files:

cmake ..

4. Build the project:

cmake --build .

5. Prepare the menu CSV file with the following format before running the program.

Click to expand CSV file format description

Each line in the CSV file should have 5 comma-separated fields: DishType,Title,Price,Weight,AdditionalField

• DishType: one of Cake, Coffee, Cola, Pizza, Salad, Tea
• Title: the dish name (string)
• Price: price as a decimal number
• Weight: weight as a decimal number
• AdditionalField:
  • For Cake and Tea: a descriptive string (e.g., flavor, type)
  • For Coffee, Cola, Pizza, Salad: a numeric value (e.g., caffeine amount, calories)

Example:

Cake,Chocolate Cake,4.5,150,Chocolate
Coffee,Espresso,2.0,50,80
Cola,Coca-Cola,1.5,330,120
Pizza,Margherita,7.0,300,250
Salad,Greek Salad,5.0,200,150
Tea,Green Tea,1.8,250,Jasmine

6. Run the executable:

./buffet