Methods, systems, and computer program products for ordering food/beverage items at a food/beverage establishment using a mobile terminal

A computer program product for ordering food/beverage items at a food/beverage establishment, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to transmit a menu request from a customer mobile terminal in the food/beverage establishment to a dedicated restaurant transceiver;
• computer readable program code configured to establish an ad-hoc wireless data connection with the dedicated restaurant transceiver after transmitting the connection request;
• computer readable program code configured to receive food/beverage menu content including a plurality of available food/beverage items from the dedicated restaurant transceiver;
• computer readable program code configured to display the received food/beverage menu content at the mobile terminal;
• computer readable program code configured to receive a menu selection designating at least one of the plurality of food/beverage items;
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• computer readable program code configured to transmit the menu selection from the mobile terminal to the dedicated restaurant transceiver using the ad-hoc wireless data connection.