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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by mrweasel on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:10AM (#17599582)
The kiosk have been installed in McDonald restaurants in Denmark for over a year at this point. They haven't eliminated the cashiers, they,ve just reduced the number from four to one in most of the places I've visited. One cashier have been converted to just handing out orders.

For the most part it's actually a better experience, it's certainly faster. The touch screen kiosks could be more intuitive.

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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by harryf on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:15AM (#17599607)
Perhaps I'm over sensitive but the idea of touching a screen that random other people have touched isn't exactly appetizing
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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by mrweasel on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:31AM (#17600395)
You already opened the door to enter the McDonalds. I doubt that peoples hands got that much more dirty walking the 2 meters from the door to the touchscreen.
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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by icebraining on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:56AM (#17600544)
The doors at our local McDs are usually kept open.
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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:27AM (#17599671)
You'd think McD's would've made an app by now, working with ibeacons and/or location systems to detect where you're placing the order at, and seamless integration with Apple Pay / Google Wallet. At least that way you wouldn't have to touch the screen.

I do hope (assume?) they clean those things several times a day, hygiene rules and such.

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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by pythonaut_16 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:04AM (#17600612)
They do have an app, although it's based on GPS + selecting a location rather than iBeacons.

It's actually one of the more interesting challenges of beacon (and QR) adoption; most of the obvious/easy to implement use cases are already well supported by GPS

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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by williamdclt on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:19AM (#17599629)
Literally everything in a city has been touched by random other people
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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by stevekemp on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:27AM (#17599667)
On the plus-side at least people will be touching the screends before they've eaten the greasy food!
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