Product Provisioning System

A product provisioning system arranged, in use, to deliver to a user substantially simultaneously a plurality of heterogeneous discrete products, the product provisioning system comprising:

• a plurality of different and independently-controllable product dispensing mechanisms being arranged to dispense different product types from one another, each product dispensing mechanism being arranged to dispense discrete products of a uniform type;
• a product collector arranged to collect together products dispensed by the plurality of product dispensing mechanisms;
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• a control system in communication with the product dispensing mechanisms, the control system being arranged to receive a user-specified product order for multiple heterogeneous products and, in response, control a set of the plurality of product dispensing mechanisms in parallel to dispense, substantially simultaneously, the products specified in that product order.

A product ordering system in combination with a product provisioning system, the product ordering system being arranged to present an electronic menu system to a user, the electronic menu system being configured to:

• i. display a list of orderable products to the user;
• ii. receive a user selection of multiple heterogeneous discrete products of that list to form a user-specified product order;
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• iii. communicate the user-specified product order to the product provisioning system;
• the product provisioning system being operable to receive the user-specified order for multiple heterogeneous products and, in response, deliver every product of the order to the user.