> Tell them you've got an order for $YOUR_NAME when they ask what you want. Boom. Already paid. Just wait for it at the window and off you go.

I do fintech, and I'm failing to see what is the advantage of just ordering is here: I'm guessing you don't want to to use cash but can you not just swipe a credit card? It's the only step left out of the equation from how a normal transaction occurs, isn't?

The waiting thing is what really gets me, you're still inconvenienced waiting for your order, and there seems to be no added benefit and only seems like a step above gift cards.

I'm still not even sure what lengths and what costs so many people will go to in order to just not place an order over the phone for pick up.

Monetizing agoraphobia, however, and adding a data extraction feature is like the MVP for most of these self-checkout like businesses. I'm personally conflicted but I have accepted that is how the World is going anyway.

Language barrier (I was at a Greek airport Burger King yesterday I dont want to explain my order). You can specify a time when you want to pick it up. No annoying customers taking 5 minutes to make up their mind.

Interesting, I actually built off Mycelium's Swish platform that sought to do this very thing. We built an Online eCommerce platform with B2B, and B2C to generate fees for them with BTC enabled payments. But what you described is exactly the way it was pitched [0], it just never got any traction and was not really use for most people as it had limited usecases.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVIeLfuSUJo