A web-based food ordering system includes a customer computer system in
communication with a server. The server hosts a restaurant related web
site that provides web pages of restaurant information for participating
restaurants to a customer, via the customer computer system. The server
is coupled to a public telephone network and the server provides verbal
order information to a selected one of the participating restaurants
responsive to input from the customer provided via the customer computer
system. The input from the customer includes a special order entry in
textual format.
