Method For Queuing Orders At A Food Assembly Apparatus

1 . A method for fulfilling custom food orders comprising:

in response to receiving a 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 food assembly apparatuses in the set of food assembly apparatuses;

creating an empty set of ingredients;

offering the list of ingredients for selection by the patron through the ordering portal;

refreshing the list of ingredients in response to receiving, from the patron, a selection of an ingredient from the list of ingredients, wherein the refreshing includes:

adding the selected ingredient to the set of ingredients;

for each food assembly apparatus in the set of food assembly apparatuses:

determining whether the food assembly apparatus is currently loaded with the selected ingredient; and

in response to the food assembly apparatus not currently being loaded with the selected ingredient, removing the food assembly apparatus from the set of food assembly apparatuses; and

replacing the list of ingredients with an aggregation of ingredients currently loaded into food assembly apparatuses in the set of food assembly apparatuses;

in response to the custom food order being complete:

selecting a particular food assembly apparatus, from the set of food assembly apparatuses, that is currently loaded with the set of ingredients; and

inserting the custom food order, including the set of ingredients, into a food order queue assigned to the particular food assembly apparatus; and

in response to the custom food order being declined by the patron, releasing the custom food order to a second patron within a region proximal to the location.