Patent ID: 8560394

Claim:
A method of enabling a restaurant patron to make a wine selection based on available inventory at the restaurant including: providing interactive hand held display devices for use by the restaurant patrons, the interactive hand held display devices operable to sequentially receive and display a series of selection screens from a content management system, each selection screen prompting the patron to make a selection including a wine characteristic associated with wines available in the restaurant wine inventory; a) transmitting a selection screen to a patron, the selection screen promoting the patron to identify a first wine characteristic; b) receiving a response from a patron to a first selection screen, the first response identifying a wine characteristic; c) transmitting a sequential selection screen to the patron, the sequential selection screen identifying only wines having the identified characteristic, the sequential selection screen prompting the patron to identify a sequential wine characteristic associated with a wine identified in the sequential wine selection screen; d) receiving a sequential response to the sequential selection screen from the patron identifying a sequential wine characteristic; e) repeating steps c) and d) until the patron has selected a wine; transmitting a confirmation screen from the content management system to the patron, the confirmation screen prompting the patron to confirm the wine selection; receiving a confirmation of the wine selection with the interactive hand held display device; transmitting the confirmation from the interactive hand held display device to the content management system; checking available inventory for availability of the wine selection; if the available inventory of the wine selection is less than a predetermined number of bottles, prompting the patron to reserve one or more bottles of the wine selection; reserving one or more bottles of the wine selection whereby the one or more bottles of the wine selection are removed from available inventory for delivery to the patron at the patron's request; and storing the patrons responses to the sequential selection screens in a database associated with the content management system.