A method and system for ordering a food or beverage from an on-site inventory local to a food and beverage customer via a graphical user interface and a network is provided. The on-site inventory is associated with at least one off-site inventory. The method includes providing a user interface to a purchaser, wherein the user interface is capable of displaying at least a portion of the on-site inventory to the purchaser. The method also includes receiving instructions from the purchaser via the interface relating to the selection of a first food and beverage from the on-site inventory, delivering the first food or beverage from the on-site inventory to the purchaser, accounting for the cost of the first food or beverage with the purchaser, and determining whether the on-site inventory quantity of food or beverages of the first food or beverages is below a pre-determined minimum quantity. The method also includes the automatic generation of a draft renewal order for transmittal to one or more pre-determined distributors of a sufficient quantity of the first food or beverage to replenish the on-site inventory quantity above the minimum.