| CPC A47J 31/4425 (2013.01) [A47J 31/10 (2013.01)] | 13 Claims |
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1. A beverage server that has
a beverage making unit for making a beverage,
a beverage serving unit for a container to be placed therein,
an openable door that opens and closes an entrance of the beverage serving unit, and
a display including an input unit,
the beverage server being configured to cause the beverage making unit to make the beverage and dispense the beverage into the container placed in the beverage serving unit, the beverage server comprising:
an information acquisition unit including a plurality of information acquisition devices configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of information of the container from the container placed in the beverage server, each piece of information being acquired independently from a different one of the plurality of information acquisition devices; and
a controller including a container identification unit configured to identify a single type of the container based on the plurality of pieces of information acquired by the information acquisition unit, wherein
the controller is configured to
identify the single type of the container using the container identification unit,
confirm that the openable door is locked,
cause the display
to display a single beverage thereon, which is to be supplied and which corresponds to the single type of the container determined by the container identification unit, and
to subsequently display a guide information thereon to prompt a user to perform a single touch operation onto the input unit of the display, and in response to the touch operation received at the input unit, cause the beverage making unit to make the beverage to be supplied and dispense the beverage into the container.
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