Confused About What To Order? This Beijing KFC Store Can Decide For You By Scanning Your Face

You are in a restaurant but can't decide what to order? Not to worry. A robot will decide for you what you want to have. This is the new reality at the KFC's first "artificial intelligence-enabled store" that opened in Beijing on Friday (December 23) and Chinese search engine giant Baidu has helped it in this.

According to a Shanghaiist report, a customer can get his/her face scanned by a machine inside the restaurant. The computer will identify the diner's face, sex, age and mood through the scan and taking everything into account, it will recommend the suitable food combination for that particular customer.

As per a press release of Baidu via Tech Crunch, while a man in his early twenties might be advised to order crispy chicken hamburger, roasted chicken wings and coke, a woman in her fifties might be recommended to have porridge and soybean milk for breakfast.

It doesn't end here either. If a customer visits the same restaurant again, the scanning mechanism will recall the last purchase history and make the new ordering faster. Authorities at Beijing KFC said the concept makes it more convenient for the customers. "Our innovations make use of cutting-edge technologies and they will help to attract more young consumers who prefer fashionable new things.

The digitalization of the restaurant will also help provide faster and easier services," Zhao Li, general manager of Beijing KFC, said. This year has been of innovations for the KFC in China. In the month of May, it set up a 'futuristic' outlet in Shanghai where a voice-activated robot takes the customers' order. It also features wireless phone-charging stations.

However, experience of Chinese restaurants with robot waiters hasn't been happy in the past. In April, two outlets in Guangzhou sacked their robot waiters for not being able to hold soup and other food steadily.