Device and method of creating a beverage recipe for an integrated system for dispensing and blending/mixing beverage ingredients

摘要

A method and device for creating a beverage recipe for an integrated beverage blending system includes a dispenser and at least one blending/mixing/cleaning module. The method creates the beverage recipe with recipe program running on a computer interactively with a user making recipe entry parameters for the dispensing, blending and mixing operations. The recipe can be stored on a portable memory and inserted into a user interface controller of the integrated system or into an associated point of sale device.

主权项

1. A method of operating a computer interactively with a user interface device to prepare a beverage recipe for an integrated beverage system that comprises a dispensing module that dispenses one or more selected ingredients into a beverage container and a blending/mixing module that performs one or both of a blending operation and a mixing operation to stir said ingredients in said beverage container, said method comprising: with said user interface and said computer: preparing a beverage by:
selecting a beverage recipe from a menu library of beverage recipes, said beverage recipe that is selected having selected ingredients; and operating said dispensing module and said blending/mixing module to prepare said beverage according to said beverage recipe to stir said selected ingredients in said beverage container; creating a new beverage recipe according to a recipe program that when executed comprises:
presenting to a user one or more screens on a display of said user interface device for said user to enter one or more ingredients with recipe parameters for said new beverage recipe; and saving said entered ingredients with said recipe parameters as said new beverage recipe in said menu library, wherein said recipe parameters comprise an ice quantity and one or more of a container size, a water quantity, a flavor quantity and a mixin quantity, wherein said recipe parameters further comprise at least one of a mixing profile mixing said ice quantity to chop up ice particles and a blending profile blending said ice quantity without changing granularity of said ice particles to control the blending/mixing module to prepare said beverage, and wherein said new beverage recipe is selectable by said preparing said beverage step,wherein said one or more screens on said display of said user interface receive from said user a distance for a first predetermined level, a first dwell time in which a blade dwells at the first pre-determined level in said beverage container, and a second dwell time in which said blade dwells at a second pre-determined level in said beverage container for one or more of said mixing profile and said blending profile.