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This sounds like quite the Rube Goldberg machine; if it becomes a reality and is economical, that's great news. I have to think there is lower hanging fruit in
by megaman22 8y ago
This sounds like quite the Rube Goldberg machine; if it becomes a reality and is economical, that's great news.
I have to think there is lower hanging fruit in the fast food industry, though. I just really want McDonald's or Dunkin Donuts to turn their POS machine around so I can key in my own order, or maybe they could cut a deal with Amazon or Apple to start using Siri or Alexa. The failure rate on the biological natural language processors currently in use are shockingly high.
- donarb 8y agoMcDonald's already has ordering kiosks in some of its restaurants. They also have a mobile app that allows you to order and pay before you walk in the door, just show up and walk out with your food.
- subpixel 8y agoThis handles the transactions really well, but now you get 40 people standing around the cash registers waiting for their order grumbling about how this process sucks. It feels like a bread line.
- snarf21 8y agoThe UI is also awful. You have to touch in opposite corners for each successive selection or choice. It takes sooo much longer than saying a "#5 medium to go" > insert card > they finish > remove card. It is a reasonable choice if there is already a line of 4 people in front of you and you are waiting anyway. The thing I'd really like is a combination of voice (the above is trivial to parse) and a history of my last 6 orders to one touch order.
- periram 8y agoI have started using the app at DD. Very quick and the turn around time for the order is low.
- ansible 8y agoThey do have those order kiosks at Panera. I don't use them unless the line is long.