E-tags just made fast food even faster
If you’re not a morning person and prefer a grunt to a chat, one fast food chain has the answer for you.
A NSW Hungry Jacks has allowed drive-through customers to use their e-Tag to help order their breakfast, without saying a word.
The sensors, which have been paying motorway tolls for years now work in conjunction with smart phones.
Customers place their order through the Hungry Jacks app and collect their breakfast without the order or cash exchange.
“It would speed up the process a lot more,” one Hungry Jacks customer said.
“That’s important in the mornings when you wake up at six, you know what I mean?” another said.
The trial, which is only in place for breakfast and at one NSW restaurant, will require a decent response from customers if it is to be rolled out across Australia.
"We know that breakfast is habitual. Our research has told us that, so this is an easy convenient way for Hungry Jacks customers to get their breakfast,” Hungry Jacks spokesman Andrew Cheong said.
"It's only a trial, it's day one. So we're just waiting to see what our customers think."
Some customers thought the eTag was more anti-social than time saving though.
"No, I don't think I'd really bother, really. It's not that hard to wait in the drive-through," one customer said.
Following the November completion of the trial, Hungry Jacks will crunch the numbers to determine whether it's worthwhile rolling out this technology across the country and indeed across the day, to include lunch and dinner.
