A Decision Support System for “De Joglo” Restaurant Using Frequent Pattern Tree Data Mining

Now days, the technology developments in Indonesia is increasing fast. There’s so many companies
that use computer technology to obtain information, this is including on the restaurants that use computer
technology to recording sales transactions and data storage system. For a small restaurant, such
technology may be sufficient for managers to making decisions. But, unlike on the quite large restaurant,
which has more variety menu and many different models of customers. This will make managers will have
more difficulty to decide anything because the data that must be consider and processed is quite a lot.
So a system that can assist managers on making decisions that needed. Therefore in this research, will
be build a computer based system that process sales data using Frequent Pattern tree data mining to create
a decision support system for the restaurant manager. For example, if customers order food A, usually
customers will order food B. So, the restaurant can increase sales of food A and food B by made it a food
package that contains both of the food. But, even though the system can issue a correlation between sales
order, expertise from the manager is still needed, for example to predict whether the decision is
appropriate to be applied or not.