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Inspiration by DrCurry.
Instead of yelling your order three times at someone through an intercom system that makes everyone sound like ET with the 'flu, under a bale of wet blankets, you just dial the 'phone number on the menu board in the fast food drive through lane.
Select your meal order,
by dialling the corresponding number for each item you want. Your selections will be indicated on the menu board by a light, or two, or three... depending upon how many of an item you order.
Once you're happy with the highlighted items you press # and the order is queued to the kitchen. The board resets for the next customer. Call ends.
certainly seems the way to go -
http://www.crmdaily...perl/printer/14293/
no mustard or olives please [po, Aug 25 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Come off it, UB, everyone knows the way of the future is using whistles, not buttons. |
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That ain't Dixie, chicken. |
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I suppose the selection unit then transmits the order to the cooks in a synthetic voice that sounds "like ET with the 'flu, under a bale of wet blankets". You've got my junk croissant unless I hear that this fast food pickin' is baked. |
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I'll be surprised if it isn't baked. It seems a little... obvious. |
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I've been informed that the drive "thru" (they're using "thru" in the UK now! It's almost enough to make me write a strongly worded letter to the Daily Mail) operatives at McDonald's can hear you fine - the microphone into which we bellow our orders and the headphones the staff sport have relatively decent sound quality. It's just the speaker the customers have to listen to that's dismal. |
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UB, I trust the "nutrition" in the idea name is ironic. |
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Based on title, I thought this was going to be about Herbalife. Perhaps an Herbalife drive-thru...<off topic>A friend catered the Herbalife founders wedding reception - thanks to her, I got 3 cuban cigars - this guy made a *lot* of money off of Herbalife users, and had huge amounts of very expensive cigars for his wedding guests</off topic>One Herbalife Croissant comin' right up. |
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Use of name presented itself as the perfect ad for the 'bakery. |
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<I'll just click on this search result... WTF! > |
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Not sure I'm understanding this properly. |
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Fred pulls into the McDonald's drive-thru, parks at the order board, takes out his cell phone and 'calls' the board. How does it work from there? It sounds like a voicemail system. "To order a Big Mac, press 1. To order a Quarter Pounder, press 2." That can't be it, can it? You'd be there all day. |
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"To supersize your order, press star."
"To return to the main burger menu, press 9."
"To speak to a McDonald's representative, press 0." |
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"I'm sorry, you've pressed an incorrect key." |
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As well, the number could be busy. A crafty burger addict will have put his order into speed dial and could thumb it up on the drive over. |
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Surely it would be much easier to have a keypad at the order board for Fred to punch in. |
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Strangely, on the occasions I crave human contact, the idea of going to a McDonalds drive-thr[o]u[gh] never occurs to me... |
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I'm going to guess the latter. |
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Waugs, it could hardly be simpler. The menu items are numbered. As you press the corresponding numbers on your 'phone, the numbers on the menu board light up. If you're happy with what you've selected then you just confirm the order. |
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I make a point of *never* going to McDonalds. Are you folk trying to tell me that they have humans working for them? |
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Why not just have buttons on the board, for the cellphone-deprived? |
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Because this system is driven by cellphone input. If I wanted buttons on the board then I'd have posted it as an anno to one of the buttons-on-the-board fast food ideas already here. Sheesh! |
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Says something that she'd rather her kids go hungry than give 'em stuff from McDonalds. |
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Sorry, didn't see that one. |
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What about the busy thing, again... "headlines today, schoolkid shuts down area McDonald's drive thru's by tying up phone lines with auto-dialers..." |
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If the buttons were part of the franchise's touchpad would it dispense sani-wipes immediatley upon confirmation of my order? |
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What about driver's with prosthetic limbs? |
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If I use my own cell phone how do I enter selections under, "have it my way"? |
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"Cheeseburger- plain" At McDonald's always gets me a hamburger." |
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So, you're saying that "have it my way" doesn't get me it "my way" anyway? |
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Hm.. You must come after the time of Burger King's "Have it Your Way" Blitz |
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//Burger King's "Have it Your Way" Blitz// |
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I take it that is some sort of advertising campaign in your country? |
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Was. About 15-20 years ago. Before McDonald's could could custom assemble their sandwhichs.
(So on your planet had there been a 'BQ' then you might have flocked over to them for a custom built burger.) Legitamizing my annotation: How does one order a "Whopper deluxe-hold the onion-add extra mustard-pickles on the side" while using prosthetic devices? |
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//So on your planet had there been a 'BQ' // |
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Burger King franchises operate under the name "Hungry Jack's" in this country. Jack Cowan bought the rights to Australia well before the parent company was interested in it. Now they're not so sure they want to buy him out. |
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Product lines and advertising campaigns are not uniform, internationally, for many of the fast food chains. Even mighty McDonald's tailors its product range to local markets. |
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If you're wearing prosthetic limbs that would prevent you using a mobile 'phone then what are you doing driving a car? |
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And what do those of us without cellular phones do? |
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