Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors: “This disclosure relates generally to an online concierge system recommending items to auser and more specifically to selecting one or more recipes for display to a user of an online conciergesystem.“In current online concierge systems, shoppers (or “pickers”) fulfill orders at a physical warehouse, suchas a retailer, on behalf of customers as part of an o nline shopping concierge service. An online conciergesystem provides an interfa ce to a customer identifying items offered by a physical warehouse and receivesselections of one or more items for an order from the customer. In current onlin e concierge systems, theshoppers may be sent to various warehouses with instruc tions to fulfill orders for items, and the shoppersthen find the items included in the customer order in a warehouse.