Automated food management system

A mechanism to automatically dispose a food product upon an object moving upon a conveyor, comprising:

• a housing to receive and store a food product to be dispensed, the housing configured to be disposed above a conveyor, the housing comprising an outlet hole that is disposed above the conveyor,
• a shaft rotationally coupled to the housing and configured to receive torque from an external source such that the shaft rotates upon rotation of the external source, the shaft comprises an input configured to engage with the external source and receive torque from the external source to allow rotation of the shaft with respect to the housing but to prevent relative vertical and horizontal motion with respect to the housing, the input disposed at an eccentric position upon the shaft with respect to a longitudinal axis of the shaft through a center of the shaft, such that rotation of the external source causes rotation of the shaft and reciprocating cyclic linear motion of the shaft with respect to a longitudinal axis through a center of the external source.