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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
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.
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.
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.

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

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
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!