Meituan's cash register exclusive black technology goes live! Click, and hundreds of dishes will be recorded in the cash register system!

Walking in the streets and alleys, there are a lot of restaurants, large and small, some restaurants are booming, but some traditional restaurants are unable to improve their efficiency due to the backward service and system, and finally the business plummeted.

Still working hard? Has your restaurant been upgraded? Relying only on experience and craftsmanship, will it be out in this era?

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The demand for intelligence in restaurants is increasing

Today's catering industry is popular in this sentence: In an era where technology is king, the competition between restaurants has gradually evolved into a contest of technology.

why would you say so?

The well-known "three highs and one low" (raw materials, rent, high labor, low efficiency) is the pressure that every catering operator is facing. In order to obtain higher profits, many catering merchants are trying to reduce costs, and the introduction of technology has helped merchants solve the problems of high cost and low efficiency to a certain extent.

Therefore, new technologies and new equipment such as unmanned restaurants, 3D printed food, smart cash registers, and smart electronic scales have been successively applied to the catering industry, making restaurants increasingly intelligent and becoming a development tool for restaurants to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Unmanned restaurant, no paper menu, orderer, cashier, cost only a quarter of traditional restaurant;

3D printed food, can easily customize food according to personal preferences and needs, it can greatly reduce food waste and food storage and transportation related costs;

Intelligent electronic scales, chefs can place orders at any time, suppliers can order and deliver with one click, intelligent electronic scales automatically identify and take photos of ingredients to the database, which can greatly help catering owners reduce procurement costs and improve work efficiency.

The emergence of every technology can have an impact on the catering environment.

But for restaurant companies, especially for some small and medium-sized catering businesses, the restaurant needs not only a sense of technology, but also a series of difficulties encountered in management and operation.

Under this background, it also forced the major catering software vendors to upgrade their systems to meet the needs of catering businesses for efficient operation.

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How smart is Meituan's smart cash register?

It is understood that merchants only need to log in to the Meituan Butler APP, click "Photograph and Record Food", and follow the instruction system prompts, after taking a photo of the paper menu, the recognition result will pop up, the user can confirm with one key, or edit and modify information.

According to the person in charge of cash register technology at Meituan, this is a technology based on automatic intelligent recognition, which can help users automatically classify dishes, and at the same time provide users with a simple and efficient interactive input method to edit and modify, subverting the popular browser Cumbersome operations. In order to make the intelligent recognition technology more accurate, this new function also performs automatic comparison and correction based on the existing dish database of Meituan Dianping. The test of the new version of the product before going online shows that the accuracy of this functional technology identification is as high as 90% overall.

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What are the highlights of taking pictures on mobile phones

With the advent of the era of intelligence and big data, more merchants are facing the problem of upgrading the operating system. However, because it is very troublesome to re-enter the menu menu information, many merchants are in the inertial choice to maintain the status quo. According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2017, food and beverage revenue was nearly 4 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.7% over the previous year. Corresponding to the rapid development of the industry, the proportion of 6 million merchants who are using intelligent catering ERP software is less than 10%.

The relevant person in charge of Meituan's cash register also confirmed this. Among the business consultations encountered by Meituan's cash register, there were the most problems with ordering food. Because it takes a long time to enter the menu information, many merchants are worried about the workload. A Beijing-based dumpling chain business was an early user of Meituan's cash register, and often asked whether it was possible to record vegetables in batches through technical means. After the photo recording function is launched, businesses have reported that they can save a lot of energy. "I tried this function two days ago, and the recognition rate is also very high. It would be good if I had this function already."

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Conclusion

There is no doubt that technology is the primary productive force.

When the new catering era came quietly, market trends prompted the upgrading of restaurant functions and service forms, thereby reducing labor costs and improving restaurant ergonomics.

Only the smart restaurant that simplifies the daily dining process can become the breaking point of new catering.