In an embodiment, a roaster application may be provided. The roaster application may allow a roaster to create and customize coffee recipes. The roaster application may upload the recipes to a back-end server. Connected coffee machines may download the recipes and use the brew parameters in the downloaded recipes to more precisely replicate the roaster's recipe. In another embodiment, a hot brew coffee machine may be used to generate cold brew coffee. For example, a mechanical actuator such as centrifugal brewer assembly may be used to create a cold brew temperature in the coffee machine. The centrifugal brewer assembly may pull hot air out of the brewer assembly until the coffee machine reaches the desired cold brew temperature. Alternatively or additionally, cold water may be sprayed to the brewing mechanism to reach the desired cold brew temperature.

A system and method for using a supplement beverage dispensing machine is provided. The system includes a supplement beverage dispensing machine having a housing with an external touch display screen and controls, a vending outlet having a lower tray adapted to support a beverage container, and a plurality of solid material reservoirs disposed within an interior volume of the housing configured to store one or more protein powders, one or more dried greens powders, one or more pre-workout powders and post-workout powders, or other types of supplement powders and at least one liquid material reservoir that includes water or other mixing liquids therein. The overall system includes a method of use and a non-transitory computer storage media to prepare a beverage in a selected container size with a selected combination of supplement types and quantities with the overall system.

Disclosed is a remote cartridge system for managing concentrate cartridges, both for beverages and cleaning, and the dispenser in which they are installed. Each cartridge contains specific cartridge information which is communicated to a controller of a dispenser allowing remote supervision of maintenance, inventory, cleaning and revision of firmware. The system has a web domain and a mobile app for a smart mobile device which are synchronized, the web domain communicating directly with the controller or indirectly through the smart mobile device.

A method for determining a usability of a household appliance includes scanning operating information of the household appliance, determining stresses of different components of the household appliance on the basis of the operating information, and of determining the usability of the household appliance on the basis of the stresses determined and of predetermined stress functions for the components. Wherein a stress function maps a stress determined to a remaining stress capacity.

The disclosure generally relates to a system for dynamically generating a second formula for a beverage based on a first formula for the beverage, a modification, and a formula generation policy. The second formula may indicate components for the beverages, measures of the components, and/or a sequencing order for the components. Based on the second formula, the system can build computer-executable instructions for automated dispensing systems and route the computer-executable instructions to the automated dispensing systems. By routing the computer-executable instructions to the automated dispensing systems, the system may cause the automated dispensing systems to build the beverage.

A system includes: a water reservoir configured to store water; a brew chamber extending below and contiguous with the water reservoir; a piston configured to run in the brew chamber, defining a base of the water reservoir, defining a port extending between the water reservoir and the brew chamber, and including a valve coupled to the fill port and operable in a) a closed position during downward advancement of the piston and b) an open position during upward retraction of the piston; a heating element configured to heat water occupying the brew assembly; and an actuator configured to retract the piston to transfer water from the water reservoir, through piston via the port, and into the brew chamber and to advance the piston by a target piston travel distance—corresponding to a piston swept volume that yields a target brew volume—to displace liquid from the brew chamber.

A method for preparing a beverage can include receiving one or more drink orders and adding the one or more drink orders on a queue. The method can also include receiving a selection of the one or more drink orders on the queue and building one or more recipes for the selected drink orders on the queue. The method can further include sending build steps from the one or more recipes to corresponding substations. For each of the build steps, the method can include instructing the corresponding substation to dispense an ingredient or execute an action. The method can also include determining each of the build steps have been completed by a user.

An infused beverage brewing assembly and system operably configured to receive a desired dispensed infused solution mass and a total infusion time utilized in an infusion algorithm to generate an infused solution. The system includes an electronic controller operably configured to initiate a time counter associated with an inducement of the flow of the solvent to generate a running infusion time and a first and second portions separated by a triggering condition, and to generate, in the second portion and dynamically, a remaining infusion time and a remaining dispensed infused solution mass, The electronic controller is also operable to execute the infusion algorithm in the second portion of the running infusion time to generate the solvent flow rate change sufficient to provide the remaining dispensed infused solution mass in the remaining infusion time based on the running infusion time, the desired dispensed infused solution mass, and the total infusion time.

The invention relates to a device (10) for producing milk and/or milk foam able to be used as a standalone device or used wirelessly connected to a beverage preparation machine (20); the device (10) controls the characteristics of the milk and/or milk foam desired, when this device (10) is used as a standalone device; the device drives the beverage preparation machine (20) when connected to it wirelessly, for the preparation and dispensing of beverage recipes prepared in conjunction with this beverage preparation machine (20), managing sequences for arriving to a desired beverage recipe. The invention further relates to a system comprising a device (10) for producing milk and/or milk foam as described, and a beverage preparation machine, the device (10) being wirelessly connectable to the beverage preparation machine, the user selecting a recipe in the device (10) and, depending on the recipe selected, the device (10) works as standalone and produces the said recipe or it drives the beverage preparation machine managing sequences for arriving to a beverage recipe as provided by the user's input. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for operating a system as the one described, in order to prepare a beverage or beverage recipe.

An apparatus includes a receptacle configured to receive a container containing a substance for processing. The container includes a readable tag having processing information associated with the substance. The apparatus also includes a processing chamber operably coupled to the receptacle and configured to receive the substance and process the substance. The apparatus further includes a controller operably coupled to the processing chamber and configured to generate one or more processing instructions based on the processing information in the readable tag and further based on additional processing information received from a remote device. The processing is also configured to process the substance based on the one or more processing instructions.