Patent ID: 6381583
Filing Date: 2002-04-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A food vending method, comprising:maintaining an actual operating food vendor at a physical location, the food vendor having a customer service area; converting at the customer service area actual images of the customer service area and food served therein into encoded digital signals; storing the encoded digital signals in a computer storage medium; and providing for remote computer communication link access to the stored encoded digital signals such that transmissions over the communication link responsive to the stored encoded digital signals display on a monitor of a computer at a location remote from the physical location of the food vendor a continuous motion visual representation of movement and food within the customer service area enabling a person viewing the monitor to have a visual experience of walking in the customer service area of the actual operating food vendor, sitting down at a table, and opening a menu as if the person were in the physical location of the actual operating food vendor.