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Soon, you will be able to enjoy pizza served by a robot in Singapore, but there’s a catch

2016-05-30 , 4:31 pm

For the foodies among us, technology has become a commonplace addition to our food adventures—be it allowing us to order food without hassle or using it to take Instagram-worthy images of food.

For those of you who like your meals fuss-free and simple, here is one new technology that will definitely interest you the next time you visit Pizza Hut at the end of 2016.

Pizza Hut has long been a favourite haunt for pizza lovers who enjoy their delectable offerings of pizza and other items such as appetisers and pasta. The other thing they are known for is hiring teenagers as part-timers within the restaurants, although that might not be the case in the future.

With the introduction of cashless payment methods in the F&B industry, Pizza Hut together with MasterCard is set to introduce the latest technology in cash-less payment in the form of Pepper.

Pepper is a humanoid robot that takes customers’ orders through an app that accepts MasterCard’s digital payment service, MasterPass. The MasterPass technology was created locally by a team of developers and this technology is expected to be rolled out in Pizza Hut’s outlets across Singapore by the end of 2016.

The next time you visit Pizza Hut, all you have to do is to greet Pepper and pair your MasterPass account with Pepper either through an icon in the MasterPass smartphone app or by scanning a QR code found on Pepper. Besides offering cashless payment for customers, Pepper can also provide personalised recommendations and offers on other products to each individual customer and also provide assistance in the payment process.

Besides offering cashless payment for customers, Pepper can also provide personalised recommendations and offers on other products to each individual customer and also provide assistance in the payment process.

Here’s a video showing you how Pepper can help you the next time you choose to dine at Pizza Hut.

Okay, the only question we have now is this: what happens to those of us who do not have good pronunciation? Will it end up like Siri, where our iPhones could not recognise our Singapore English when it was first rolled out in Singapore?

Just imagine: you order a regular Hawaiian Pizza, and Pepper happily announced that your order for a Hawaiian baked rice is completed. Say what?!

Soon, you will be able to enjoy pizza served by a robot in Singapore, but there’s a catch

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