BEVERAGE DISPENSING
Among other things, beverages are dispensed from one or more beverage dispensers based on selections made by users. Information about the dispensing of the beverages is sent to a central server where it is used to manage a variety of functions including replacement of depleted supplies of components. Various features of the beverage dispensers enable the beverages that are dispensed to be uniform and appealing to users.
1 . A beverage dispensing method comprising
receiving a signal from a manually operated switch corresponding to a start of a manual operating of the switch that potentially indicates that a beverage is to be dispensed,
in response to the signal, activating a display device alerting a user to continue to operate the manual switch to have the beverage dispensed,
if the signal from the manually operated switch continues to be received for more than a predetermined period, dispensing the beverage.
2 . The method of claim 1 in which the predetermined period is no longer than one third of a second.
3 . The method of claim 1 in which the manually operated switch comprises a portion of a touchscreen.
4 . The method of claim 1 in which the display device comprises a portion of a touch screen.