Patent ID: 8433609

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, through at least one central server, which includes a processor communicatively coupled to a memory and which is associated with a gastronomic bidding service provider, that a bidding platform provided by the gastronomic bidding service provider has a number of requests for gastronomical offers within at least one of a residential location zip code and a daytime location zip code associated with a user thereof; permitting the user to access the number of requests for gastronomical offers within the at least one of the residential location zip code and the daytime location zip code thereof; denying the user access to a request for a gastronomical offer within a zip code outside a geospatially constrained region around the at least one of the residential location zip code and the daytime location zip code thereof; permitting the user to create a series of standing bid amounts spread across a spectrum of time such that the standing bid amounts are submitted periodically to a set of retail establishments based on at least one of a gastronomical item, a business name, a cuisine type, the residential location zip code and the daytime location zip code, the standing bid amounts being associated with at least one request for gastronomical offers; and crediting an account associated with the gastronomic bidding service provider on the at least one central server with an amount between a bid price of the gastronomical item and a particular payout price thereof when the bid price is at least a particular accept price corresponding to the particular payout price.