Patent ID: 8175913

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a database containing records corresponding to customers, products, and fulfillment terminals delivering the products to the customers; providing a core terminal comprising a processor executing instructions programmed to receive orders from the customers, send fulfillment instructions to the fulfillment terminals, and control access to the database; obtaining from at least one customer, of the customers, sign-up information comprising an identifier uniquely identifying the at least one customer, and contact information corresponding to the at least one customer and comprising at least one electronic communication channel; providing directly to the at least one customer, by the core terminal, a list of the products and prices corresponding thereto; receiving, by the core terminal from the at least one customer while the at least one customer is at an entertainment venue, an order for at least one of the products; delivering from the core terminal to a fulfillment terminal at the entertainment venue information defining an order for a product to be delivered to the at least one customer; dispatching, from proximate the fulfillment terminal to the at least one customer while the at least one customer is at the entertainment venue, the product; reporting, into the fulfillment terminal the status of the order; reporting from the fulfillment terminal to the core terminal the status of the order; and processing, by the core terminal, a financial transaction reflecting the status of the order.