Food or beverage production system

A beverage dispenser configured for preparing a beverage by introducing a beverage concentrate ingredient in a drinking cup and introducing a diluent in the drinking cup for mixing the liquid and the beverage concentrate ingredient inside the drinking cup, the dispenser comprising:

• a diluent supply;
• a support for supporting the drinking cup;
• at least one nozzle for introducing the diluent in the drinking cup;
• a member for adapting the relative distance between the support of the drinking cup and the at least one nozzle;
• a sensing device adapted to obtain information about the drinking cup by receiving or reading information from the cup and/or by measuring at least a characteristic of the cup selected from the group consisting of:
• spectral property, color, electrical property, resistivity, capacitance, electromagnetic property, magnetic induced field, mechanical property, geometry, weight, identifier, code bar, emitted and reflected signal:
• and
• the sensing device being interconnected with the controller of the dispenser so that in function of the information obtained related to the shape of the drinking cup the controller adapts the relative distance between the support and the at least one nozzle.

A system comprising:

• a beverage dispenser configured for preparing a beverage by introducing a beverage concentrate ingredient in a drinking cup and introducing a diluent in the drinking cup for mixing the liquid and the beverage concentrate ingredient inside the drinking cup, comprising:
• a diluent supply;
• a support for supporting the drinking cup;
• at least one nozzle for introducing the diluent in the drinking cup;
• a member for adapting the relative distance between the support of the drinking cup and the at least one nozzle;
• a sensing device adapted to obtain information about the drinking cup by receiving or reading information from the cup and/or by measuring at least a characteristic of the cup selected from the group consisting of:
• spectral property, color, electrical property, resistivity, capacitance, electromagnetic property, magnetic induced field, mechanical property, geometry, weight, identifier, code bar, emitted and reflected signal;
• the sensing device being interconnected with the controller of the dispenser so that in function of the information obtained related to the shape of the drinking cup the controller adapts the relative distance between the support and the at least one nozzle;
• and
• the sensing device is a reading device configured for reading the encoded information carried by the drinking cup, the reading device being interconnected with the controller of the dispenser so that the controller adapts the relative position of the support to the nozzle based on the encoded information read on the drinking cup.

A method for dispensing a beverage with a system comprising a beverage dispenser configured for preparing a beverage by introducing a beverage concentrate ingredient in a drinking cup and introducing a diluent in the drinking cup for mixing the liquid and the beverage concentrate ingredient inside the drinking cup, the dispenser comprising a diluent supply, a support for supporting the drinking cup, at least one nozzle for introducing the diluent in the drinking cup, a member for adapting the relative distance between the support of the drinking cup and the at least one nozzle, a sensing device adapted to obtain information about the drinking cup by receiving or reading information from the cup and/or by measuring at least a characteristic of the cup selected from the group consisting of:

• spectral property, color, electrical property, resistivity, capacitance, electromagnetic property, magnetic induced field, mechanical property, geometry, weight, identifier, code bar, emitted and reflected signal, and the sensing device being interconnected with the controller of the dispenser so that in function of the information obtained related to the shape of the drinking cup the controller adapts the relative distance between the support and the at least one nozzle and the sensing device is a reading device configured for reading the encoded information carried by the drinking cup, the reading device being interconnected with the controller of the dispenser so that the controller adapts the relative position of the support to the nozzle based on the encoded information read on the drinking cup, the method comprises:
• placing the drinking cup carrying the identifier in or close to the sensing device of the beverage dispenser;
• reading the encoded information carried by the drinking cup;
• and
• preparing the beverage according to information obtained about the drinking cup.