System, method, and apparatus for a beverage producing and dispensing apparatus including automatic scheduling
AssigneeBunn Commercial LP
InventorsJason M. BANNING, Jonathan CLARK, Joel MORTON
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AssigneeBunn Commercial LP
InventorsJason M. BANNING, Jonathan CLARK, Joel MORTON
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A brewer includes a brewing assembly that dispenses a brewed beverage into one or more reservoirs, an intelligent scheduler, and a refill controller. The intelligent scheduler uses one or more machine learning models to generate a hold volume schedule based on historical brew event data, the hold volume schedule specifying a target volume of brewed beverage to maintain in the reservoirs across multiple time intervals. The machine learning models also predict beverage waste and customer wait time, with model weights tunable based on user-adjustable goal criteria that set relative priorities between minimizing waste and reducing wait times. The refill controller initiates brewing based on the hold volume schedule to fill the reservoirs to the target volume. The intelligent scheduler periodically updates the hold volume schedule using updated historical brew event data. The system is also applicable to general beverage producing and dispensing systems.
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A brewer comprising:
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A beverage producing and dispensing system comprising:
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