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| TimFox:
Further down in the long article, referring to "Mr Yum", a restaurant software vendor: "Orders placed through the QR code menu also let Mr Yum inform restaurants which items are selling so they can add a menu section with the most popular items or highlight items they want to sell. ... Mr Yum, for instance, uses cookies in the digital menu to track a customer's purchase history and gives restaurants access to that information, tied to the customer's phone number and credit cards. It is piloting software in Australia so restaurants can offer people a 'recommended to you' section based on their previous orders." It's all voluntary, of course. |
| TimFox:
--- Quote from: ebastler on July 27, 2021, 09:05:11 pm --- --- Quote from: TimFox on July 27, 2021, 08:58:02 pm ---... the print edition of the NY Times. You can find it at your public library. --- End quote --- 'fraid not. ;) --- End quote --- I can find the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung at mine... |
| ataradov:
--- Quote from: TimFox on July 27, 2021, 09:07:24 pm ---also let Mr Yum inform restaurants which items are selling so they can add a menu section with the most popular items or highlight items they want to sell. --- End quote --- This is the stupidest idea ever. A restaurant already knows what is selling from their menu. And what do they care what sells from other menus? Let's say tacos sell well, should an Italian restaurant put tacos on the menu? If you are so clueless as a restaurant owner to not know what sells, you will be out of business anyway. --- Quote from: TimFox on July 27, 2021, 09:07:24 pm ---Mr Yum, for instance, uses cookies in the digital menu to track a customer's purchase history and gives restaurants access to that information, tied to the customer's phone number and credit cards. --- End quote --- This implies installing apps. If restaurants agree to that technology, they are shooting themselves in the foot. |
| TimFox:
The article does not imply that Mr Yum shares that information with other restaurants or with unsavory characters, but what stops other vendors from doing so without permission? I think that the “menu section with the most popular items” is just an additional section highlighting the most popular items from the whole menu, not from across the street. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: TimFox on July 27, 2021, 10:47:13 pm ---The article does not imply that Mr Yum shares that information with other restaurants or with unsavory characters, but what stops other vendors from doing so without permission? I think that the “menu section with the most popular items” is just an additional section highlighting the most popular items from the whole menu, not from across the street. --- End quote --- Given how badly restaurants have been hit during the pandemic, it would unfortunately be logical that they looked for new ways of making money to make up for it. And customers won't win. |
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