System of food and/or beverage preparation, communication applications and/or units

A system of food and/or beverage preparation comprising a base station which is configured to down-link signals representative of items available for consumption from a venue, and a user interfacing network unit which is configured to display selectable options representative of food and/or beverage items and which is configured to allow a user to input selections from the items, the inputted selections being up-linked in a form of representative signals to the base station, the base station being further configured to communicate signals representative of the selections to a preparation station, wherein the user interfacing network unit comprises a communication application configured to communicate with a plurality of network addresses of a corresponding plurality of base stations of food and/or beverage preparation, the application providing a user interface capable of being displayed on a display of a user interfacing network unit and containing user-selectable items corresponding to each of the plurality of base stations, the user interfacing network unit being configured to determine and selectively communicate its spatial coordinates, the base stations having spatial coordinates which are discoverable by the user interfacing network unit, and a module which is configured to rank the base stations in terms of their proximity to the user interfacing network unit;

• the application providing the user with the option to select a base station to download signals corresponding solely to the selected base station.