McDonalds In China Launches Self-Serving Facial Recognition Kiosks For Contactless Payments And Orders

The following report is by Telpo, the technology company that designed these new biometric kiosks:

As the world’s largest restaurant chain, McDonald’s has stores in 120 countries and serves 68 million customers each day. It has rich experience in adopting technology to make its restaurants more efficient and improve customers’ dining experience.

Challenge

The vast majority of customers who enter McDonald’s fast food restaurants want fast delivery rather than waiting in line. When too many customers rush in during the lunch rush, the waiting time for customers to order food is greatly lengthened, which goes against the philosophy of fast-food restaurants.

McDonald’s introduced self-service terminals, which improved the efficiency of meal preparation and delivery, relieved customers from waiting in line, and brought significant sales growth. However, the various IT devices currently used in McDonald’s stores have different manufacturers and different versions, and there are difficulties in operation and maintenance, complicated processes, and inability to maintain remotely.

Solution

McDonald’s noticed this early and has been testing self-service kiosks since at least 2003.

Self-service kiosks play an important role in transforming the customer experience, decreasing waiting time, increasing order accuracy and improving the efficiency of processing orders. Besides, by adopting the self-service ordering model, McDonald’s can redeploy staff, open up the restaurant space, reduce cash handling, etc.

Telpo One-Stop Solution

For the efficiency of remote operation and maintenance of McDonald’s equipment, centralized management of store self-service machines, Telpo together with McDonald’s jointly customized a 27-inch self-service kiosk, Telpo K20.

Features:27” multi-touch screen brings vivid pictures and advertising display.

Straightforward and intuitive ordering. Telpo K20’s large screen makes self-service ordering easier. On the 27-inch screen, customers can see and choose what they want, including ingredients and sauces, through the vivid picture display. Simple installation brackets: wall-mount, floor-standing, pole-mounted.

Telpo K20 is equipped with simple installation brackets, including a modern wall mount, classic floor stand, and flexible floor stand. These installation brackets provide more convenience for users. Abundant payment options: NFC card, QRcode and financial-grade face recognition.

Telpo K20 provides lots of optional accessories, including but not limited to the contactless card reader, 3D structured light camera, etc. The QR code payment, NFC payment, and face recognition payment offer abundant checkout options, satisfying various payment needs of customers. 80mm thermal printer with auto cutter, fast printing up to 220mm/s.

The high-speed printer plays an important role in shortening the waiting line. An 80mm thermal printer with an auto-cutter is built into Telpo K20. More efficient and stable receipt printing is offered with a speed of 150mm/s and a maximum of up to 220mm/s. At the same time, multi-language and multi-font printing supported by Telpo OS makes receipts another advertising tool.

Dedicated to providing one-stop solutions for customers and satisfying all their demands, Telpo has a complete customization mechanism. From appearance design, MD design, PCBA customization, prototype, OS customization, mold, and trial production, to mass Production, Telpo can make you fully satisfied.

Telpo’s Innovation Points

Modular design

This kind of self-service kiosk launched by Telpo adopts a modular design, which makes the device not only achieves high reliability and stability but also makes it more convenient to maintain. As a result, maintenance cost is greatly reduced and the overall operation is easier and more efficient.

Free switching of Windows OS and Android OS

Without adding any selector switch, Telpo K20’s operation system can be switched between Windows and Android. This innovation lowers the material cost and maintains the pretty appearance of the device. What’s more, the operation cost is greatly reduced.

Unified management platform

Telpo provides a unified remote operation and maintenance management platform for McDonald’s China. It adopts a standard data objects model to access the non-Windows operating system devices of McDonald’s Chinese restaurants in a unified manner, realizing the standardization of data access of different types of devices from different manufacturers. The unified platform makes McDonald’s achieve higher security, easier management and real-time monitoring.

Founded in 1999, Telpo has been on the road to creating a colorful future. In virtue of 23-year professional project experience and strong market recognition, Telpo products have served more than 120+ countries and established strategic cooperation with McDonald’s, Burger King, 7-11, Alipay, Baidu, Meituan, Bank of China, and other world-renowned companies. Telpo has the confidence to be your cooperative partner boosting your business. Welcome to contact us for more details.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Indeed, it’s a “secret weapon” – their words, not mine – because it’s all about convenience, reducing costs by cutting staff while maximizing profits by removing physical cash from the equation, replaced with biometrics; which then the government and big tech can collect as well.

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This is another step and conditioning towards the mark of the beast.

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:16-18

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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