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What Canvas: What is the Nature of the Problem?
What is the problem? ● Large amounts of unconsumed food items are lying in the
form of leftovers at the restaurants which is either thrown or
distributed for free to needy people.
● Restaurants have to bear financial losses due to everyday
wastage of food.
● Market surveys show that restaurant owners are facing
problems of food wastage.
Where Canvas: Where Does the Problem Arise?
What is the context/situation in which the ● Restaurants that serve buffets.
stakeholders experience this problem? ● The leftover unconsumed food at the end of day.
Why Canvas: Why Do You Think It is a Problem Worth Solving?
What would be of key value to the A correct estimate of food to be prepared every day, will reduce
stakeholders? food wastage.
How would it improve their situation? ● No food or less food is left unconsumed.
● Reduction in financial losses due to food wastage.
After the 4Ws canvas let’s put them together in the Problem statement template.
Our Restaurant Owners. Who?
Have a problem of Financial losses due to food wastage. What?
While Due to lack of proper estimation, food is unconsumed Where?
and wasted.
An ideal solution would be To provide an effective system to predict the amount of Why?
food to be prepared for every day consumption.
To conclude the Problem statement template, goal of our project should be: “To predict the quantity of food
dishes to be prepared for everyday consumption in restaurant buffets, to avoid wastage”.
Stage 2: Data Acquisition
Once the problem is identified, the next step is to acquire data for testing and training our AI-based project. For
this we need to understand the kind of data to be collected. The data features are used to define the type of
data that needs to be acquired to achieve the goals of our project.
In the above example, the data features that will be considered for the preparation of food for the next day
buffet for consumption are as follows:
• Total number of customers. • Quantity of dish prepared.
• Dish consumption. • Unconsumed quantity of dish per day.
• Price of the dish. • Quantity of dish for the next day.
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