This disclosure describes systems and methods for providing an interactive bartender that uses a custom cup dispenser. The cup dispenser may incorporate a suitable mechanism to allow a technician to pre-load cups into multiple sleeves in a rotating magazine. The cup dispenser may employ a cup splitter having upper fingers and lower fingers to isolate and drop a single cup from a sleeve onto the linear conveyor. When a first sleeve is empty, the cup dispenser may rotate the magazine to a second sleeve of pre-loaded cups. The cups may be reusable to eliminate environmental wastei.e., the business or organization may gather the cups after an event, sanitize the cups, and reload the recycled cups again into the cup dispenser. This avoids unnecessary waste and obviates harmful impacts to the environment caused by the over-abundance of discarded plastic waste.