Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks
by harryf on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:15AM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Literally everything in a city has been touched by random other people