Abstract: A beverage dispenser operates a cup holder to advance a cup holding portion holding a cup in which a beverage is filled from an inside of a cup port to an outside thereof to locate it above a cup mount, lower the cup holding portion from a above position by a predetermined distance to place the cup on the cup mount in process of lowering, and retreat the cup holding portion from a lowered position to the inside of the cup port to leave the cup on the cup mount.

Abstract: An espresso-based beverage is prepared by putting a prescribed quantity of milky foam powder into a cup; injecting a prescribed quantity of hot water from a jet nozzle into the cup to dissolve and beat the milky foam powder to generate milky foam; and pouring a prescribed quantity of espresso coffee from a coffee supplying pipe into the cup.

Abstract: A beverage dispenser operates a cup holder to advance a cup holding portion holding a cup in which a beverage is filled from an inside of a cup port to an outside thereof to locate it above a cup mount, lower the cup holding portion from a above position by a predetermined distance to place the cup on the cup mount in process of lowering, and retreat the cup holding portion from a lowered position to the inside of the cup port to leave the cup on the cup mount.

Abstract: A beverage dispenser can replace a X-Y coordinate of a predetermined cup stop position with a corrected X-Y coordinate by operating an X-axis motor and a Y-axis motor of a cup mover so that an actual cup stop position become consistent with a predetermined cup stop position and deciding the corrected X-Y coordinate based on position signals obtained from an X-axis encoder and a Y-axis encoder according to the operation.

Abstract: An automatic cup type beverage vending machine which, even where the same kind of beverage are sold through a plurality of vending machines, prevents variations in the taste of the same kind of beverage from one machine to another is to be provided. Since it is so configured that beverage data stored in a memory unit 11 can be replaced with new beverage data by receiving beverage data transmitted from a headquarters server S1 through via a medium of communication or only by storing beverage data transmitted from a headquarters server S1 to sales office servers S2 into an external memory M2 and reading the beverage data from the memory M2 connected to a connection unit 16, the beverage data are not altered arbitrarily on the part of the manager (an operator or the like) of the vending machine, and beverages can be prepared always on the basis of predetermined beverage data.