Patent ID: 7083093

Claim:
A method for commercial vending of a plurality of liquid products from a vending apparatus into individual ones of discrete fluid receptacles suitable for holding, transporting and consuming said liquid products, said individual ones of discrete fluid receptacles having machine-readable indicia thereon indicative of one liquid product for an individual one of said discrete fluid receptacles, said one liquid product selected from said plurality of liquid products available from said vending apparatus, comprising the steps of: reading said machine readable indicia from an individual one of said discrete fluid receptacles; determining amounts of individual ones of at least two diverse source ingredients needed from a plurality of ingredients available from said vending apparatus to formulate said one liquid product indicated by said machine readable indicia, responsive to said reading step; dispensing said amounts of particular source ingredients into said individual one of said discrete fluid receptacles to thereby blend a liquid product therein from said at least two diverse source ingredients responsive to said determining; and calculating a sales price responsive to said reading step and dependent upon said machine readable indicia.