Abstract: A system for dispensing a predetermined number of prepackaged condiments to a customer based on a food order inputted into a business machine at a food service establishment. The system includes a business machine, such as a cash register, linked to a powered prepackaged condiment dispenser. Each menu item available at the establishment is assigned a number that represents the total number of prepackaged condiments that a normal customer may need while consuming the item. A microprocessor contained within either the dispenser or the business machine retrieves the number of condiments from the memory when a food item key is pressed and provides a signal to the condiment dispenser so that the predetermined number of prepackaged condiments is dispensed. The system controls the amount of prepackaged condiments provided to the customer in order to reduce waste.

Abstract: An automatic napkin dispenser includes a housing having a rotatable feed roller with protrusions on an outer surface thereof for engaging a topmost napkin on a stack of napkins, and displacing the topmost napkin between a pair of counterrotating nip rollers that dispense the topmost napkin to a customer. The housing includes a motion translating assembly coupled to the feed roller and moving the feed roller back and forth relative to at least one of the nip rollers.