Instant wages access reduced absenteeism and theft while improving employee morale.
Source: hospitalitytechnology.edgl.com
Nice article on providing quick access to wages for employees instead of the typical once a week, every two week paycheck.
TAMPA—A McDonald’s Corp. restaurant in Wesley Chapel is among a select few nationwide to test a distinctly new way for McDonald’s customers to order food: Via a digital kiosk. Source: tbo.com Post Views: 1,436
Cowen & Co. upgraded McDonald’s outlook based on the chain’s technology upgrades, including self-order kiosks. The company has been deploying kiosks globally for a decade but has not used them to replace workers.
Source: www.qsrweb.com
NORWELL – The McDonald’s restaurant on Route 53 in Norwell is among the first of the burger chain’s 300 franchises in Massachusetts to be equipped with touch-screen kiosks. Using a kiosk, a customer can scan the menu and place an order, swipe a credit or debit card, get an order number and wait for the food to be delivered to a table. A customer who wants to pay with cash can get a ticket at the kiosk and take the ticket to the service desk. Customers who would prefer to order the
Source: norwell.wickedlocal.com
Eventually, 14,000 McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. will have the kiosks. They were first introduced at lo cations in California, Florida and New York.
The company is also planning to revamp restaurant interiors and drive-up windows.
During the reopening of a McDonald’s in New York City in November, CEO Steve Easterbrook said the addition of technology would not cause jobs to be eliminated.
Would you like some microchips with that burger? McDonald’s Europe strikes another blow against human interaction by installing 7,000 touch-screen computers to take your order and money. Craig Allen Keefner‘s insight: Thanks to Kirk at Arcatech See on www.cnet.com Post Views: 765
After McDonald’s announced yet another round of disappointing earnings yesterday—its quarterly profits fell 30 percent—the Wall Street Journal editorial page took a moment to gloat. “So even one of the world’s most ubiquitous consumer brands cannot print money at its pleasure,” it wrote. “This may be news to liberal pressure… Source: www.slate.com Nice article on labor costs and… Read More »
From super-size to customize — that’s the path McDonald’s is taking in an effort to reverse 11 straight quarters of declining same-store sales. New Yorkers can be among the first in the US to parti…
Source: nypost.com
Allen and Cort Norman, the franchise’s married owners, say younger customers have been taking to the kiosks — tested in the store since July 30 — as if that’s the way business has always been done.
Over the past 12 months, shares of fast-casual chains like Chipotle Mexican Grill, up 10.1 percent, and Panera Bread, up 35.7 percent, have outperformed McDonald’s, up 5.4 percent.
How much better is it than regular McDs? Here’s our comparison.
Source: www.delish.com
Great review going thru the entire process.
It’s useless to 70% of restaurant visitors. Source: fortune.com McDonalds doesn’t have much of a history of innovation, but it did for stunts. so he might be right. and there are many locations where the drive thru traffic is nil. And maybe that is the point. 70% of your revenue comes from drive thru. Can you increase that,… Read More »
“Remember all that fuss in the USA about minimum wage? Remember all those strikes and protests?
Well, this is the… https://t.co/dU0FYqtVRS
Source: www.neowin.net
Amid nationwide calls for significantly higher wages for fast food workers, Wendy’s and McDonald’s are testing self-service ordering kiosks.
Source: www.phillyvoice.com
Another testament by the companies on how kiosks are not aimed at minimum wage or instigated by that issue.
