07-24-2003, 06:00 PM
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McDonald's Implementing Pocket PC-Based Drive Thru
This is cool. Now we know why McDonald's was setting up WiFi hotspots. Who would have known that they'd be a technology leader? :lol:
"...now you can get your Big Mac and french fries even more faster thanks to new technology being used by the McDonald's restaurant on Jackson Street Extension. Employees are coming face-to-face with drive-thru customers once again and taking orders using a Pocket PC. Glenda Stock, owner of five McDonald's franchises in the Alexandria area, said the pocket PC is 'experimental' at this point but is expected to be implemented on a permanent basis very soon."
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07-24-2003, 06:03 PM
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Great! so now instead of dealing with staticy speakers asking you "mradfgeemadsfase" when they mean "Would you like fries with that?" you get "Hold on a second while i soft reset..." (or if they have ppc2003, "hold on 30 seconds..."). :lol:
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07-24-2003, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by droppedd
Great! so now instead of dealing with staticy speakers asking you "mradfgeemadsfase" when they mean "Would you like fries with that?" you get "Hold on a second while i soft reset..." (or if they have ppc2003, "hold on 30 seconds..."). :lol:
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Sarcastic, but very funny :lol:
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07-24-2003, 06:13 PM
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But now you can get your Big Mac and french fries even more faster...
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07-24-2003, 06:16 PM
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Probably the guy that took the E-learning seminar: "More better writing skills in three easy lessons"... :wink:
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07-24-2003, 06:21 PM
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If they had done better in English class in high school, would they be working at a mcdonald's drivethrough? :lol:
although i shouldn't say that... especially in today's job market, as i joke with my friends who are English majors: "Oh, you're majoring in liberal arts? Better start preparing for the workforce. Repeat after me... "Would you like fries with that?"
and several of my friends did spend their summers working the Burger King gig. In fact one of them couldn't even get a job in fast food this summer, the job market's so bad in Maine. But he's an art major, so being poor keeps him an authentically starving artist 
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07-24-2003, 06:27 PM
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Yeah, as droppedd said, we won't have to deal with static on the speakers (when they are working well). :lol: It's good to see that McDee is using
their own hot spots as well. Hope to see this technology everywhere and
in other fast food chains as well.
- Getafix
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07-24-2003, 06:30 PM
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This is awesome! Face to face is much better than talking to a pair of speakers. Does anyone remember that McDonald's drive through breakfast commercial? With the guy screaming his order while forgetting to roll down his windows? :lol:
Now if customers that have their OWN Wi-Fi enabled PPC can make their own orders (if the ordering system was web-based, for example)...the guy won't even need to scream or roll his windows down -- he can just tap while sitting in his car...and by the time he gets out of the car and into the store the order is there waiting for him. 
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07-24-2003, 06:32 PM
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I can't see this method being any faster than the regular drive through. Clicking on buttons with a stylus to input the order has to be pretty error-prone ... I haven't had a wrong order at a driver through in a pretty long time.
The hardest part is the accent of some of the workers, not the technology. You just have to anticipate what they're going to say (such as "Heretogo?" or "Likebiggisizeat?"). I can't imagine how non-native English speakers deal at fast food restaurants.
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07-24-2003, 06:32 PM
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This is awesome! Face to face is much better than talking to a pair of speakers. Does anyone remember that McDonald's drive through breakfast commercial? With the guy screaming his order while forgetting to roll down his windows? :lol:
Now if customers that have their OWN Wi-Fi enabled PPC can make their own orders (if the ordering system was web-based, for example)...the guy won't even need to scream or roll his windows down -- he can just tap while sitting in his car...and by the time he gets out of the car and into the store the order is there waiting for him.
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