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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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