NFC Menu Tile For Diners

To follow the pandemic-based shutdown, smart phone ordering systems have become more commonplace. Diners to have access online using some apps to place order without handling credit card or menus, thus reducing face-to-face interactions.

Recently, a startup company called Qiiosk offers an app-free solution that enables customers to place orders, request assistance or make payments from their table, by tapping their NFC-enabled smart phone against a contactless dining tool called Menu Tile.

The solution combines Near Field Communication (NFC) and QR code technologies to make the process fast and app-free. Several restaurants have already deployed the systems in order to meet the needs or reopening. The company is using NFC tags from HID Global, due to HID's ability to quickly provide the NFC technology in large volume. The Menu Tile is being applied to tables or placards, and diners can use the system to book tables, schedule deliveries, request food and communicate with the kitchen staff etc.

No app is requirement, customers can simply tap their NFC-enabled phone against the nearest Menu Tile (at the table or at the front of the business), and the NFC reader which installed in the phone will capture the Tile's ID and open related menu site. If your phone is not supports NFC function, you could scan the QR code to do that instead. This solution is not only provide a menu but also can ask a server to visit their table or speak with someone in the kitchen about their order. Once finished with their meal, they can tap their phone against the Tile to pay for it.

The restaurants can provide a safer environment for those returning to on-site dining by using the systems, as well as for employees, by limiting interactions. The technology is also intended to make the experience more efficient for workers and customers. In addition, restaurants can update the menus in the system on a real-time basis, so that diners can access up-to-the-minute menus and place orders for in-person, takeaway or delivery dining.

The firm needed to quickly install the system with 13.56 MHz NFC functionality, compliant with the ISO 14443 standard, so it looked for a company that offered an NFC tag rugged enough to be adhered to menus and metal tables in public spaces. In the end, it chose HID Global to provide such a solution.

The system leverages HID's NFC tags and NFC-enabled PVC credit cards, according to Jean Miguel Robadey, HID Global's VP of industrial smart components and identification technologies. "The touch-free opportunities are especially valuable now," Robadey says, "with restrictions on dining and uncertainty about the future of the industry." The NFC tags provide stable read rates, so the technology can be used easily.

NFC menu is not a fancy thing so far, but touch-free is exactly efficient experience for the workers and customers. And all the functions is designed by the system, menu also could be updated at the real time. The NFC menu could be custom logo printing, size or shape. Please contact us at info@rfidconnectus.com if you are interested in it.