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Smart Kiosks: The Key To QSR Loyalty?

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fast food customers pay exclusively with cash. We’ll skip the obligatory “un-Happy Meal” joke, because that misstep for a fast food titan demonstrates the slings and arrows of quick-service restaurant (QSR) automation, its importance to customer experience, and how even the industry’s best can still get a major rollout wrong.

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The Restaurant Tech Race Gains Fresh Buzz From Fast Casual Dining

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Fast food, at least, is a firm part of Americana, and has close ties to rock-and-roll, modern youth culture and even politics.) Customers place their orders through a restaurant’s website or app. The eatery then prepares the food and puts it in the pickup pod. Mobile Ordering.

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US Falls Short In Restaurant Technologies

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Technomic’s Top 100 Global Chain Restaurant Report for 2016 found, for instance, that 68 percent of customers in Asia reported using a mobile device to place a food order in the past three months, and in the Middle East, that statistic was about 60 percent. But in North America, placing mobile orders to restaurants is still a novelty.

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Walmart Opens First High-Tech Supermarket In China

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According to Chain Store Age , the 10,000 square-foot store will carry more than 8,000 items offered both in-store and online, focusing on fresh foods, fast delivery, value and everyday convenience. Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current.

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Google Debuts Virtual Phone Agent For SMBs

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For a customer who wants to complete a task that can be done online, CallJoy’s virtual agent will send an SMS text message containing a URL. CallJoy will even compile data in an online dashboard and email business owners a daily update that includes valuable information such as call volume and new versus returning callers.

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Why More Than 90 Pct Of Shoppers Still Go To The Grocery Store

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Even in an age when shoppers can order groceries online and have them delivered straight to their doors, the vast majority of consumers are still shopping the traditional way – hopping in their cars and heading to their local brick-and-mortar grocery store to shop the aisles or pick up an online order.

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Walmart, JD.com Invest $500M Into Dada-JD Daojia

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“We are confident that this deeper collaboration with Dada-JD Daojia will enhance our omni-channel footprint and deliver a better O2O (online to offline) customer experience,” said Wern-Yuen Tan, president and CEO for Walmart China, reported Reuters. Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current.