Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods provide retail-specific instantiations of products of recipes. Some embodiments comprise a control circuit; a recipe database storing a hierarchical recipe data structure; an inventory database; and a point-of-sale system. The control circuit is configured to maintain the recipe data structure to comprise: a plurality of genericized recipe component (RC) records; a plurality of tiers of RC records; and the plurality of recipe component instantiation (RCI) records; and the control circuit is configured to: obtain a recipe identifier; identify a genericized RC record; parse through the tiers of RC records and identify unique product identifiers instantiated for the corresponding RCI records; exclude unique product identifiers having less than a minimum on-hand threshold; generate a virtual shopping cart comprising a set of unique product identifiers; and cause the point-of-sale system to purchase the products corresponding to the set of unique product identifiers.

Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods incorporate customer-supplied recipes, comprising: a control circuit; a recipe database; a network interface coupled with an external network; wherein the control circuit is configured, to: receive recipe information of a recipe; define a genericized recipe component (RC) record with the recipe; identify, for each ingredient, a unique product identifier; obtain a set of rules that genericize a recipe as a function of linking defined within the recipe data structure; apply the first set of rules to: parse, for each identified unique product identifier, the recipe data structure and identify, based on linking corresponding to an RCI record, a primary RC record; and create a genericized recipe from the generic classes of products corresponding to the identified primary RC records, and exclusively associating the genericized recipe with the genericized RC record.