60 results about "Food selections" patented technology

A methodology for customers seeking to purchase a meal from a food service vendor such as a restaurant, a cafeteria, or a vending machine, by ordering a food preparation based upon menu-selections. In addition to receiving ordered food, customers receive suggestions for optionally modifying their food orders based upon nutritional benefits and other criteria. Either during real-time customer-ordering or during post-ordering, a food-service vendor presents a customer suggestions specific to a pending tentative or completed order, wherein the customer may enjoy purported nutritional benefits by electing to follow these suggestions and thereby modify the tentative order into a corresponding completed order. Alternatively, the customer may elect to ignore these suggestions, but may nonetheless decide to effect such food-ordering modifications during subsequent visits. The food selection criteria implemented by a food service vendor is independent of individual customer identity and preferences, and are flexible and readily adaptable to accommodate changes such as a food service vendor's marketing strategy, customer-food preferences, discoveries pertaining to nutrition and consequent good health; and may be adapted to a plethora of food service environments. The preferred embodiment contemplates a restaurant environment in which customers typically approach a food-ordering counter and interface with both a menu display and with order-taking personnel. Other embodiments implicate kiosks, vending machines, remote access devices, and locally and remotely-accessed networked computers, wherein customers interact with automated computer-driven devices instead of or in addition to wait-staff or other food service personnel.

A consumer user interface for a point of sale food selection system is modified based on certain dietary requirements. The system and method may be applied to point of sale kiosks as well as wireless data devices for use in restaurants, delis, cafeterias, coffee shops and other food retail environments. During the process of ordering, the interface determines a user's preference for one or more dietary requirements. Once the preferences are determined, subsequent choices for an order may be suggested, highlighted, recommended, parsed, or otherwise modified to aid the consumer in selecting meals that are tailored to their individual preferences.

An integrated shopping and order fulfillment method and system is described whereby the customer is able to tailor her grocery shopping list according to her selected preferences from the product inventory offered by a retailer grocer and viewable on the user's mobile phone device. Once the order is placed, the system initiates its order fulfillment methodology whereby a unique barcode is generated for tracking all packages associated with the order. The items are sorted according to their assigned perishability ranking to generate a packing order list for use by the retailer grocer. The packing order list provides an optimized packing order schedule to ensure the freshness of all perishable items upon the order's pickup and delivery. Selected preferences may include red alert options to warn the consumer of an undesired level of a designated ingredient and black out options to eliminate the posting of a particular food type during shopping.

A computer implemented method and a hotel room restaurant delivery system (HRRDS) for ordering food from a restaurant for delivery to a hotel room via an electronic device in the hotel room are provided. The HRRDS determines and renders information, advertisements, and promotions of restaurants proximal to the hotel room from a restaurant network on the electronic device based on a food urgency level and predetermined user criteria. The HRRDS receives a restaurant selection and a food selection of food items from an associated food menu through one or more interface elements. The HRRDS generates a sale order with user information and a net payable amount for the selected food items and performs one or more actions associated with the sale order, in communication with a restaurant management and delivery system of a selected restaurant via a communication network, for delivering the selected food items to the hotel room.

A heated food vending machine has a front with a) slots for dispensing the food and for accepting money, b) a video screen and c) several depressible buttons. Inside the machine is a refrigerator with a roof having an openable door and a side having a fastenable door for refilling with food in covered pans. Inside the refrigerator is a horizontally rotating apparatus with stations supporting stacks of food in covered pans. An elevator below the openable door elevates a station, raising the top pan above the door. The food cover is removed by a special roller apparatus. On top of the refrigerator are arms radiating from a central hub, which are rotate horizontally. Spaces between the arms contain food pans, which rotate to an oven with heating elements above and below the pizza. A computer controls the food selection and the refrigerator and oven temperatures.

The invention discloses fermented black allium chinensis food and a preparation method thereof and relates to the field of processing of agricultural products. The fermented black allium chinensis food is prepared by the following steps: fermenting the allium chinensis which is treated in advance for 5 to 6 days under the conditions of temperature of 62 to 76 DEG C and humidity of 95 to 100 percent; drying; packaging; and sterilizing. The product has fine mouthfeel and is slagless, sweet, fragrant and mellow. The product can be prepared into different flavors by adding different condiments and is tasty and refreshing when serving as a dinner dish. The preparation process is simple, so that industrialized production is promoted; the product has long storage life, so that commercialization is promoted; and the requirements of people on food selection are met.

The present invention relates to methods and systems for preparing a health condition-specific eating plan for a subject that is based on personal healthcare information from the subject. The personal healthcare information from the subject is used to identify the preexistence of one or more health conditions, as well as the risk for developing health conditions in the future. This information is then used to generate a list of foods that are beneficial for treating the health condition(s) if incorporated into the subject's eating plan. The customized selection of foods is based on the phytochemical content and density of the foods.

The invention discloses a food promotion and sales system based on the Internet. The system comprises a customer login end, a server and a member login end, wherein the customer login end comprises a member registration module, a food evaluation system, a freight charge payment system and a food free-try system, the server comprises a video information storage system and a food evaluation system, the customer login end is connected with the server through an information query module, output ends of the food evaluation system, the freight charge payment system and the food free-try application system are connected with an input end of the server through a network communication module, the member login end comprises a food evaluation system, a freight charge payment system, a food free-try system and a food selection system. The system is advantaged in that a server page is entered through the login end, in a browsing process, the relevant food can be rapidly searched through the information query module, whether the food is suitable for one's taste can be determined through applying free-try foods at the cost of a little of postage, and unnecessary cost can be reduced.

The invention relates to a system for obtaining food selection information. The system includes a mobile device, a server, a smartphone terminal and graph coding; the mobile device sends the scanned graph coding to the server, the server performs authority verification on the mobile device, and after the mobile device passes the authority verification, the server marks the graph coding sent by the mobile terminal; the smartphone terminal sends graph coding information to the server, the server receives the graph coding and sends food ordering page information corresponding to the graph coding to the smartphone terminal, and the smartphone terminal obtains category information selected by a user in the food ordering page and sends the category information to the server; the server compares the graph coding sent by the smartphone terminal with the marked graph coding; and if the graph coding sent by the smartphone terminal is already marked in the server, the server receives the category information sent by the smartphone terminal and the server performs one-to-one binding of the smartphone terminal and the graph coding.

A system for identifying compatible meal options. The system includes a body analysis module configured to receive a user biological marker, select a clustering dataset from a clustering database, generate a hierarchical clustering algorithm and assign a plurality of user body measurements to a first classified dataset cluster. The system includes a food analysis module configured to select a food training set from a food database, generate using a supervised machine-learning process a food model, generate a food tolerance instruction set, and display on a graphical user interface the food tolerance instruction set. The system includes a menu generator module configured to select a menu training set from a menu database, generate using a supervised machine-learning process a menu model that produces an output containing a plurality of menu options, and display on a graphical user interface the plurality of menu options. The system includes a local selector module configured to receive a plurality of meal option inputs from a meal preparer device, generate a k-nearest neighbors algorithm, identify a plurality of compatible meal options, and display the plurality of compatible meal options on a graphical user interface.

The invention discloses an intelligent auxiliary food taking nursing system and an auxiliary food taking method thereof. The intelligent auxiliary food taking nursing system comprises a central processing unit, a video acquisition module, a wireless communication module, a mechanical arm, a liquid crystal display module and an audio output module. The central processing unit recognizes and processes the facial image information acquired by the video acquisition module to generate food selection, eating and other instructions, and sends the instructions to the mechanical arm through the wireless communication module to execute corresponding operations. The liquid crystal display module and the audio output module directly receive instructions of the central processing unit, the liquid crystal display module displays patterns, surplus, selection results and the like of food in the dinner plate, and the audio output module plays related voice prompt information. According to the food taking nursing system and the auxiliary food taking method thereof, meal selecting and dining services can be provided for disabled old people, pregnant women and patients with cervical vertebra or head injuries and inconvenient movement, the human body activity law is met, and medical workers are freed from heavy nursing work.

The invention relates to an automatic candy vending machine comprising a rack, a candy storage and selection unit, a bag storage and opening unit, and a bag sealing unit. The candy storage and selection unit comprises a plurality of candy storage barrels, a separator plate sub-unit arranged under the candy storage barrels, a push rod sub-unit connected with the separator plate sub-unit, a control unit used for controlling the push rods to move, and sensors arranged under the candy storage barrels to detect the decrements of weights of candies. The bag storage and opening unit is arranged under the candy storage and selection unit and is used for storing packing bags and opening the packing bags, comprising a bag storage frame used for holding the packing bags, a horizontal slide table, a vertical slide table and suckers arranged on the horizontal slide table and the vertical slide table. The bag sealing unit is arranged under the bag storage and opening unit and used for sealing the packing bags, comprising a hot sealing and cutting machine used for sealing the bags and a conveyor belt used for conveying the candy packing bags. Compared with the prior art, the machine can meet the requirement for autonomous food selection of customers and can complete weighing and packing work quickly with high working efficiency.

The invention discloses an automatic nutrition catering method and device, applied to fast food restaurants. The method comprises the steps of obtaining personal information of a user, and screening recommended dishes according to the personal information; searching a dinner plate for containing the recommended dishes, moving the dinner plate to a meal taking area; a user taking food from a food taking area, guaranteeing balanced nutrition intake. Scientific catering can be completed without manual operation of the user, the food selection efficiency is improved, and the problems that in an existing fast food restaurant, the user needs to select food manually, the speed is low, the number of people queuing for dining is large, nutrition intake is unbalanced due to catering of the user, andbody health is affected are solved.

The invention specifically discloses a processing method of flower honey. The processing method is characterized by comprising the following steps of compounding flowers with honey in the weight ratioof the flowers to the honey being (1-10) to (90-99), firstly removing impurities from the flowers, baking the flowers without impurities, crushing the baked flowers into flower powder, adding the flower powder to the honey which is heated to 110-115 DEG C, performing quick stirring for 10-60s, then performing quick cooling to room temperature, performing maceration at room temperature for 7 days,and then performing heating and filtration so as to obtain honeydew; and decocting the honeydew under the condition of 40-60 DEG C until the water content is 20-22% and the specific gravity is 1.32-1.34 so as to obtain a flower honey product. According to the processing method disclosed by the invention, the product namely the flower honey reserves specific aromatic smell of flower varieties, andbesides, nutrient substances in the flowers are effectively merged into the honey, so that new characteristics are added to honey products, people can obtain nutrition and essence of the flowers wheneating the honey, and new health-care food selection is added to health-preservation health-care requirements of people.