Many hotel & restaurant operators are rapidly adapting to these using the QR or Bar Codes. How does this help the operations? Here goes-you scan this QR or a Bar code (presuming everyone has some smart phone & a QR or a Bar code reader application) much in advance- the hotels website, or when checking in or on each table there is a tent card displaying this. This helps the Operator or wait staff to stop printing expensive Menus, saves the wait staff fatigue (reaching out to every customer can be tiring) & time which can be productively used to speed up service & bussing. How to use the contact-less menus instructions can be a small, animated GIF or video putting the technically challenged at ease.
How does an owner or operator get guided so the densely designed spaces which house Display or main kitchens, the Laundry or the Employee Dining Restaurants are designed such that they do not have to spend every two, five, ten or even twenty years on these areas?
Its always the conscientious efforts made by the Hospitality Design Consultant (selected by the client or the brand) after an arduous process & the team selected has the requisite experience & confidence in creating such future proof workspaces.
As designers we must shed treading on the same old path & restrict the complacency of just being template artists. Waking up & smelling the coffee may just be passe & adapting the new technology may just be the clincher for the success story.
Lets explore some of the out of the box ideas:
CONTACT-LESS MENUS
Many hotel & restaurant operators are rapidly adapting to these using the QR or Bar Codes. How does this help the operations? Here goes-you scan this QR or a Bar code (presuming everyone has some smart phone & a QR or a Bar code reader application) much in advance- the hotels website, or when checking in or on each table there is a tent card displaying this. This helps the Operator or wait staff to stop printing expensive Menus, saves the wait staff fatigue (reaching out to every customer can be tiring) & time which can be productively used to speed up service & bussing. How to use the contactless menus instructions can be a small, animated GIF or video putting the technically challenged at ease.
THE APPLICATION OF USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR MACHINE
LEARNING
The Restaurants & Hotel Brands have stayed in a comfort zone where the advent of machine learning, artificial intelligence or using IOT (Internet of Things) have always taken a back seat.
Now imagine an expensive coffee machine or a dish-washing machine or a Combi oven about to fail sends a signal (more like “ET Phone home”) to its manufacturer and/or to the distributor that preventive maintenance is urgently required & before the busy operator calls there appears the service genie with the required spare part to repair the machine/clean the machine/or just run important diagnostics. Impossible? No, it is happening & trust us its being seriously considered by the manufacturers who have a reputation to protect & look forward to repeat orders.