Taco Bell has released a mobile app that lets people order and pay on their smartphones and then pick up their food.
Brilliant! Now instead of playing with your phone while standing in line, you can play with your phone while eating.
Taco Bell has released a mobile app that lets people order and pay on their smartphones and then pick up their food.
Brilliant! Now instead of playing with your phone while standing in line, you can play with your phone while eating.
The article doesn’t mention installing new lines or windows for those who electronically pre-order at Taco Bell, so you may still end up in a line behind a party of five that can’t make up their minds, I assume.
And at Outback, it says that “unlike a traditional reservation, late guests will not be dropped from the wait list or penalized.” No potential for reservation-bombing (or subsequent modifications to the policy) there. Have the hostesses get back to me on how well THAT works out!
And the way they chose to advertise this — by making their Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and other social media sites go completely black, with a message that they’re only available to you if you download this app — REALLY fills me with confidence that the IT team’s number-one priority is customer satisfaction (and not, say, padding their client stats to reach a bonus threshhold). I wonder if they worked on healthcare.gov, too.
This is another piece of evidence that the minimum wage is really zero. This application will reduce the number of cashiers at more than a few Taco Bells.
Progress marches on!!