Point of sale interface for an automatic beverage dispenser
AssigneeSmart Bar USA LLC
InventorsFred KNECHT, William METROPULOS
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Abstract
A point of sale (POS) interface solution is provided to interface a POS system or POS terminal to an automated bar tending system, allowing a drink order to be entered into the automated bar tending system other than by a user interface on the automated bar tending system. The POS interface provides a drink order signal to a printer for printing a drink order on a ticket for processing a drink order and/or on a bill to present to the customer. The POS interface also provides a drink order signal to the automated bar tending system for displaying the drink order on the user interface.
Claims20
A system for processing drink orders, comprising:
- a server computer;
- one or more point of sale (POS) terminals configured to generate a drink order signal based on a received input;
- a bar tending system configured to automatically populate a drink order queue based on receiving the drink order signal;
- and
- an order display configured to provide a visual representation of the drink order signal, the order display comprising one of a video display and a printer,
- wherein the system is configured to provide the drink order signal to both the bar tending system and the order display based on the received input to the one or more POS terminals.
A system for processing a drink order, the system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory containing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:
- receive a drink order signal from a point of sale (POS) terminal;
- provide the drink order signal to both a printer and a bar tending system;
- print a drink order at the printer based on the drink order signal;
- and
- automatically populate and display the drink order in a drink order queue on a user interface of the bar tending system based on the received drink order signal.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing machine-executable instructions for causing a processor to perform a method for processing a drink order, the method comprising:
- receiving a drink order signal generated by a point of sale (POS) terminal;
- providing the drink order signal to an order display;
- providing the drink order signal to a bar tending system;
- and
- displaying the drink order automatically in a drink order queue on a user interface of the bar tending system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.