System and method for brewing and dispensing coffee using customer profiling

摘要

A system and method for brewing and dispensing beverages may use customer profiling to select beverages to be produced and presented to a given customer and/or messages to be displayed to the customer, based on customer-specific information stored on a loyalty card, in a local system, or remotely. A user interface mechanism may receive input identifying the given customer. A controller may select a base drink recipe dependent on the customer's identity, and may initiate production of a beverage using the selected drink recipe. Each drink recipe may specify an amount of water, coffee, flavorings, dairy, and/or other ingredients, and may be further customizable to add or remove ingredients and/or to change an amount thereof, based on received user input. The stored customer-specific information may include a customer identifier, account information, a purchase history, a message history, drink recipes, and/or an email address for each of a plurality of customers.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a user interface mechanism comprising a video capture device; a facial recognition mechanism that during operation receives input from the video capture device and identifies a customer from the received input using facial recognition; and a controller that during operation and in response to said identifying:
selects one of a plurality of standard or custom drink recipes dependent on the identity of the customer, wherein each drink recipe specifies an amount of two or more ingredients in a respective brewed beverage; andinitiates production of a brewed beverage using the selected drink recipe, wherein during operation:
the controller determines the actual temperature of the brewed beverage; andthe user interface mechanism displays the determined temperature.