Patent ID: 8899280

Claim:
A beverage dispenser comprising: a dispensing nozzle; a sound device; a display device indicating a fill level of a container; an user input device that receives beverage selections from a user, wherein the beverage selection further comprises a beverage ingredient selection; a memory that includes sound files and video files corresponding to beverage ingredients; a processor programmed with computer-executable instructions to cause the sound device to play a sound from at least one of the sound files, the sound file including a sound corresponding to an ingredient of a beverage selected with the user input device the sound beginning at the start of a beverage dispense from the dispensing nozzle and the sound ending at completion of the beverage dispense from the dispensing nozzle, the sound changing volume and tempo during the beverage dispense; and the processor further programmed with computer-executable instructions to cause the display device to play at least one of the video files, the video file including images of beverage ingredients from the selected beverage flowing into the container, the images displayed beginning at the start of the beverage dispense and ending at completion of the beverage dispense from the dispensing nozzle, the display device also indicating the fill level of the container during the dispense.