For well over a decade now chain and fast food restaurants have been using touch screen monitors at their point of sale, as they were the first to recognize their potential. Anyone who has visited one and seen them being used, but not many people stop to considered why. In fact, here are plenty of good reasons why these were the the first establishments to make the switch and now it is for these same reasons that retail businesses around the globe are making the switch.
A Solution to a Growing Problem
Monitor Touch Screen
To begin with, they now offer far more functions and options, while at the same time offer complete simplicity in their use. For years now retail businesses have been complaining about the lack of literacy and general low IQ of the labor pool that they are forced now to hire out of. LCD touch screen monitors are one of the solutions to this quandary that is long over due.
Simply Point and Touch
Simply put, any dummy can operate one and they completely eliminate the need for memorizing anything. If you were to look around the counter at the touch screen monitors that fast food chains are using, you might see that they are cover with pictures of the food that they serve. Order a burger and the girl behind the counter simply pushes the picture of the burger on the touch screen.
No Bar Codes Required
For retail businesses, this means that perishable items and products that are small or don't have surfaces that can be bar coded can now be accurately accounted for. This means just that much less that you have to rely on unreliable employees for. Remember the tighter and more visible your accounting the less likely you are to be targeted for employee theft.