From-frozen to fully cooked in unmanned operation From the DenverPost July 2021 New automated pizza kitchen (APK) comes to Denver. In Brief Completely vended from machine Certifications in place (NSF and UL) 50 rolling out this years 10″ Pizza and no microwave Pizza prices range from $12 to $15, purchased with a debit or credit card, Apple Pay,… Read More »
News on BNPL and Visa in Canada as well as new Scan and Go for Sam’s Club Visa rolls out BNPL for merchants The credit card network company is making the new installment payment option available to merchants in Canada, where buy now-pay later adoption has been growing fast. Sam’s Club expands Scan & Go payment app The updated app… Read More »
Evolis Announces News Complete Range of Card Printers ID Card Printers Editors Note: Driver support — there are drivers for Windows, Mac OS, Linux. The spec sheets for each of the new printers and the brochure for the entire range are available as compressed pdf zip (evolis-brochures-compressed). A complete range of card printers for all your projects. Kiosk… Read More »
From Pymnts June 2021 Buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Afterpay is giving some of its U.S. shoppers the ability to buy merchandise at retailers even if those stores don’t have a relationship with the company, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. In Brief 13 Retailers Targeted CVS, Dell, Kroger, Macy’s, Nike, Nordstrom, Sephora, Target, Victoria’s Secret… Read More »
Your Future Supermarket from New Retail From Wired UK Jun 2021 Shopping bag conveyer belts, personalised food recommendations and facial recognition payments aren’t so futuristic anymore In Brief: 200 Freshippo supermarkets Precise products scanned, go to conveyor belt to back, and then are delivered Pay for it all via facial recognition Blockchain technology helps trace thru supply chain… Read More »
We also note that Best Buy is also being sued by the same company (Implicit, LLC out of Plano) The specific patent Maybe you can make sense of this… Abstract A computer-based method and system for managing attributes of objects in a namespace and for allowing multiple views into the namespace. The namespace system allows the objects identified… Read More »
How To Set Up A Ghost Kitchen or Automat Nice blog article by QSR Automation on basics of AutoMat In Brief History of Automats — began in Germany in 1895 Coin operated automat history — Link Modern Automat Overview – BOH acronym is “back of house” Kitchen Essentials — a KDS or Kitchen Display System Front of House… Read More »
From EatThisNotThat Jun2021 – Editors Note: You could see this coming given the test being run in Illinois which has some of the strictest privacy laws. In Brief: McDonalds testing AI-powered drive-thru ordering at 10 restaurants in Illinois Voice Analysis and Recognition being used Data retention — McDonalds is not informing customers how long their data will be… Read More »
From CrunchBase Jun2021 In Brief: Expediting food orders with robots is major selling point for Wings People order a million ways, but food is made one way Constraints of job market and attractiveness of jobs Fear of interacting with unvaccinated people is major problem Headless checkout — see a bowl of soup you want to buy? You can… Read More »
Aldi Rolling Out Self-Checkout at Grocery Pictures and Images on Google Discount grocer Aldi is rolling out a limited trial of self-serve checkouts in its stores in a bid to increase convenience for shoppers. Famous for the speed of its operator-manned checkouts, the self-serve checkout trial will be rolled out in ten NSW stores with each store to… Read More »
