Abstract: An online vending system for vending physically any unique food items. The vending system has a food rack system and individual robots for carrying the food items to and from the food rack system. Each food item is characterized by obtaining for it at least its image taken from plural sides thereof and a customer interface is provided that allows a customer to view and obtain various parameter data relating to each physically unique food item, to enable individual selection of fresh fruit items such as apples, pears and the like.