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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2016
Creator, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven Frehn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexandros Vardakostas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeff C. Jensen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Creator, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
One variation of a method for fulfilling custom food orders includes: in response to request for a custom food order from a patron through an ordering portal executing on a computing device, retrieving a location of the computing device; identifying a set of food assembly apparatuses within a threshold distance of the location of the computing device; aggregating a list of ingredients currently loaded into the set of food assembly apparatuses; in response to selection of a particular ingredient in the list of ingredients for the custom food order, removing ingredients, from the list of ingredients, unique to a food assembly apparatus not currently loaded with the particular ingredient; selecting a particular food assembly apparatus, from the set, currently loaded with a set of ingredients specified in the custom food order; and inserting the custom food order into a food order queue assigned to the particular food assembly apparatus.