System and method to enable a customer to select a wine based upon available inventory

A method for providing wine selections to a patron of a food services establishment from a wine store of the food services establishment, comprising the steps of:

• providing a handheld device to a given patron upon the patron entering the establishment for the purpose of accessing food services thereof and connecting the handheld device to a central server;
• personalizing the handheld device to the given patron at the central server such that the central server recognizes activity of the given patron on the handheld device;
• providing to the user available food services and available wine selections from the wine store;
• accessing at the central server personal experiences of the given patron representing their prior actual experiences with available wine selections at that food services establishment, the prior actual experiences evidenced by a rating provided by that given patron based on their actual prior selection of an associated wine at that food establishment;
• augmenting the available wine selections with wine associated with the accessed prior actual experiences to provide to the given patron guidance as to their selection;
• selecting by the patron one or more available wines with or without other available services from the food establishment;
• providing to the given patron the ability to rate a previously selected and unrated wine selection at that food establishment;
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• storing then current wine selections at the central server as a history of the current wine selection whether associated with a prior actual experience or not.