The assignment is to design and implement a food service management system using C++. The system must allow customers to create shopping carts, add or remove items, and checkout. It must also manage inventory and perform re-stocking actions. The system will use binary files for customer data, cart data, and inventory data, and sequential stream text files for shopping list input. The assignment requires the use of C++ features such as inheritance, polymorphism, composition, operator overloading, and exception handling.