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.
However, 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 problems 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.
The technological innovation ability of Meituan's cash register can be said to be the leader among many catering software vendors.
This is mainly because the Internet team has a better understanding of the scene, and captures business users through more new functions, such as scanning code and ordering food. Now its popularity far exceeds expectations, especially for the fast food format.
On April 10th, Meituan launched a "popular eye" function. When merchants make transactions with Meituan's cash register, smart payment, group purchase, and Flash Hui, the transaction data can calculate the accumulation of popularity.
How smart is Meituan's smart cash register?
On April 18, at the GIIS2018 China Catering Service and Retailing Leaders Summit, 20 companies, including Meituan Smart Cashier, were selected as "Top 20 Chinese Catering Service Providers in 2018."
How smart is Meituan's smart cash register? What are the new trends in technological innovation?
A few days ago, Meituan's cash register exclusive black technology was launched and launched a mobile phone camera to record dishes. It is understood that the restaurant can enter the menu in one minute.
A reporter's investigation found that the previous restaurant recording method can be roughly divided into the following three stages, but problems such as labor and energy have still not been completely resolved.
The 1.0 era: hand-recorded dishes, for some catering formats with more dishes, there will even be more than 100 dishes, which may require a special person to spend a few hours, with low efficiency and high error rate;
The 2.0 era: With the development of the Internet, catering merchants can type and record dishes on the PC side, but they restrict their hands;
Era 3.0: With the emergence of smart phones, catering businesses can record food by recording. Although they have liberated their hands to a certain extent, they can only roar the menu by voice;
In view of this, the Meituan Dianping Intelligent System has launched a mobile phone photo entry menu function in the "Meituan Butler" app on the merchant side. This menu entry function is a further application of machine algorithms and deep learning in the menu entry scenario. The earlier voice recording function has further reduced the time cost of businesses to a certain extent.
According to Red Meal Network (WeChat: hongcan18), this is an exclusive new function in the domestic intelligent software system.
What are the innovations 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.
"Among the business consultations encountered by Meituan Cashier, there are the most questions about ordering food. Because it takes a long time to enter the menu dish information and the work is cumbersome, many merchants are worried about the workload." The person in charge of Meituan Cashier also This confirms this.
The appearance of the mobile phone camera recording function makes the catering merchants more convenient and faster in actual operation.
One-click confirmation, hundreds of dishes can be entered in one minute
"Ordinary shops can enter all dishes and names within one minute at the earliest." The head of the US group cash register technology told reporters.
It is understood that after logging in to the "Meituan Butler" app, the restaurant merchants can click the "photograph and record" function to take pictures and record food through the real-time menu, or import all the dishes pictures from the album in a unified manner. Recognize the name, price and other information of the menu, and then pop up the recognition result, the user can confirm with one click, or edit and modify the relevant information.
The dumpling house with big stuffing was an early merchant of Meituan's cash register. At that time, there was no mobile version of the butler app, and the dumpling house with big stuffing could only be manually entered one by one through the Meituan butler on the cash register in the background of the PC.
"Almost 80 dishes, we asked someone to enter it, it took about 4 hours, and there is a proofreading one by one, which is very inconvenient. Now with the mobile phone camera recording function, from the camera upload background to automatic proofreading, it only took In 1 minute, it is much more convenient. "The owner of the big dumpling house is very happy.
Using big data to achieve intelligent classification, the accuracy rate is as high as 90%
"This is a technology based on automatic intelligent classification, which can help users automatically classify dishes, and at the same time provide users with a brief introduction and efficient interactive entry method for editing and modification, subverting the cumbersome operations of peer browsers." Meituan Cashier Technology The person in charge said.
It is understood that in order to make the intelligent recognition technology more accurate, the new function of taking pictures on mobile phones is also based on the existing menu database of Meituan Dianping, and performs automatic comparison and correction. The overall accuracy rate is as high as 90%.
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.
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