A system and method are provided for automating consumer restaurant and grocery food orders, and more specifically, a system for compiling a food order for a specific food establishment utilizing the consumer's food interests and the establishment's available food menu. The system includes a software application for generating a consumer account comprising food preferences, either entered by the consumer manually or by automatically collecting history data from one or more food establishments. Such data is then used to generate individual food orders for a specific customer at each food establishment. The system can further include a customer identification card which can be used at each food establishment to automatically draw up an order. Alternately, orders may be automatically created at specific times during a day based on data sent to an establishment from an application repository on an automated basis.