To improve the operation efficiency and customer service of a high- grade restaurant more while making it easy to select tableware information by storing tableware by menus in a tableware management file and selecting and outputting stored tableware.

A customer management file 23C stores the numbers of visits by reserving customers and last-use tableware by the menus so that they correspond to each other. When order data inputted by order data input means 10A to 10N are transferred to an order managing means (STN) 20, the STN 20 stores them in an order file 23R or a reservation file 230, and a CPU 21 and an ROM 22 update the number of visits in the customer management file 23C and select and temporarily store tableware corresponding to the number of visits in a work area of an RAM 23. Then when cooking is indicated, the tableware is read out and transferred to kitchen printers 40A to 40N and respective TL's 10A to 10N.