Patent ID: 8307951

Claim:
A method of assembling and packaging a food item to be included in a food order comprising: providing a first work area for manually assembling and packaging a food item; providing a second work area for assembling a food order that includes a food item packaged in the first work area; providing a conveyor beneath the first work area for conveying a packaged food item from the first work area to the second work area; providing a conveyor access opening proximate to the first work area for allowing downwardly depositing of a food item assembled and packaged at the first work area onto the conveyor; manually assembling and packaging a food item at the first work area; thereafter depositing the assembled and packaged food item downwardly from the first work area through the conveyor access opening and onto the conveyor; thereafter conveying the assembled and packaged food item beneath and along the first work area to the second work area; thereafter including a packaged food item conveyed from the first work area to the second work area into a food order that is being assembled at the second work area wherein the food order includes the conveyed packaged food item.