Paper product dispensing system and related methods

摘要

A system for dispensing paper product at a food-selling establishment. The system includes a point-of-sale device for entering details of a particular sale transaction, with the point-of-sale device being configured to output a slip containing specific indicia associated with the particular sale transaction. A dispenser of paper product is configured to obtain information from the specific indicia on the slip and to dispense a predetermined quantity of paper product in response to the obtained information.

主权项

1. A dispenser for dispensing paper product comprising:
a main housing configured for supporting paper product therein and including a dispensing mouth for dispensing the paper product therethrough; an input device external to said main housing and configured to receive at least one of a machine-readable code or a human-readable code while the paper product is supported by said main housing and ready for dispensing through said dispensing mouth; and a controller operatively coupled to said input device and configured to cause the dispenser to dispense a quantity of paper product equal to a quantity accessed from a memory that stores a list that associates information contained in the at least one of the machine-readable code or the human-readable code with different quantities of paper product to be dispensed, wherein said dispenser is configured to dispense napkins from a stack of napkins supported in said main housing, and wherein the quantity of paper product dispensed is a number of napkins.