Food/beverage vending machine with adjustable delivery delays

A system for encouraging the selection of food or beverage products based on a shorter dispensing countdown time, comprising:

• a dispenser that dispenses food or beverage products, each food or beverage product having a dispensing countdown time, wherein the dispenser allows a customer to change a product selection after a first food or beverage product is selected;
• a controller to control the dispenser to dispense the first food or beverage product having a first dispensing countdown time once the first dispensing countdown time reaches zero seconds, wherein the first food or beverage product is only dispensed if a customer does not select a second food or beverage product having a shorter dispensing countdown time than the first food or beverage product before the first dispensing countdown time counts down to zero seconds, wherein the first product is different from the second product.

A system for encouraging the selection of food or beverage products based on a shorter dispensing countdown time, comprising:

• a dispenser that dispenses products, wherein each product has a dispensing countdown time;
• the dispenser being adapted to allow a customer to change a product selection after a first product having a first dispensing countdown time is selected and prior to the first product being dispensed by selecting a second product before the first dispensing countdown time reaches zero so that the first product is not dispensed when the second product is selected, the second product having a shorter dispensing countdown time than the dispensing countdown time of the first product.