Customer Queue Management

The assignment is to write a Java program that simulates the management of customer queues in a grocery store with two cashier counters. Customers can choose any counter to checkout. A store manager balances the length of the queues for efficient services. The program includes classes such as Customer, Cashier, and App. The main operations include checking out customers, adjusting queues, merging queues, and closing the store, which reports the total sale.

Problem description:
Write java programs to simulate the management of customer queues in a grocery store. Assume that
there are two cashier counters in the store. The customers may choose any counter to checkout.
Assume a store manager who is in charge of balancing the length of the queues for efficient services.
Display the sale’s report when the store closes.
Implementation:
1. Create a Customer class with the following variables and methods:
1) Variables - Customer ID (may use static var, or set a random number), # of items in the cart
(int, a random number between 1 to 20), the total price of all items in the cart (double, # of
items * 10)
2) Methods – set/get, toString()
2. Create a Cashier class. This class represents a customer queue for a cashier. Each element in a
queue is an object of Customer class. There are following methods in the class to allow us to
simulate and manipulate the queues:
1) void addToQueue(Customer c) – adds one customer to the end of the queue
2) Customer endService() – Adds the subtotal of the items from one customer and removes
the customer from the front of the queue.
3) Int getLength() – returns the length of a queue
4) Void clone(Customer[] customerQueue) – copy the contents in customerQueue to this
customer queue
5) boolean isEmpty() – returns true if the queue is empty
6) Boolean isFull() – returns true if the queue is full
7) String toString() – returns a string containing the detail info of all customers in the queue
Design constructors in each object class.
3. Create an app class to manipulate the queues. Provide the following operations (the main
menu):
1) Customer checkout (a customer is able to choose a cashier queue, do not do auto assigning)
2) Cashier 1 serves a customer
3) Cashier 2 serves a customer
4) Report queue status (display the detail info of two queues including the number of
customers and customer ID, # of items in the cart and the price for every customer in each
queue)
5) Manager adjusts queues (adjusts the length of two queues to let them to be equal or have
one difference in the # of customers)
6) Close a cashier (merge two queues, not concatenate one queue to another)
7) Closes store (two cashiers serve all customers in the queues. The total sale of the store
should be reported.)
Methods:

1) void adjustQueues () – adjust two queues by comparing the current length of two
queues and do the adjustment
2) boolean mergeQueues (Cashier cashier1, Cashier cashier2) – merge two queues into
one queue under cashier1. After merge, cashier1 has a longer queue and cashier2 has
no customers.
Return: true – merged; false – the total number of customers exceeds one queue
capacity
3) You may create other help methods as you need
At the beginning of the program, ask user to type in the queue capacity. Bother queues have the same
capacity. This number is used to create the queues in two cashiers. The application class ends only when
the user selects item 7, Close store. For all other selections, the program should continue run and
display the menu to the user.