2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The fast food chain McDonald's has announced that in the future it intends to introduce in its restaurants around the world 3D printers for printing toys for children's menus Happy Meal.
This was announced during a technology forum in Munich, organized by Fujitsu - Germany, by the head of the IT department Mark Fabes.
This innovation will be introduced so that children can get to the desired toy, and not to "print" food, as expected.
The company said it was still exploring the possibility of equipping the chain's restaurants with tablets and touch kiosks for self-ordering food.
According to Fabes, the introduction of new technologies is always associated with risks. He explained that before such innovations can be introduced, the sanitary norms under which it is possible to produce 3D plastic toys must be taken into account.
Fast food employees are worried that the first unsuccessful purchase with the newly introduced devices may pull customers away in the future.
Given the fact that 3D printing technology is at a relatively early stage of its development, its implementation in stores may be associated with certain difficulties.
Fabes also revealed that McDonald's intends to launch its projects related to "Internet objects".
The idea of one of these projects is for kitchen machines to start interacting in order to save electricity.
The idea of "printing" food is not new and so far technology can now create chocolate.
Even the US National Space Agency is interested in the new technology and has funded the creation of a 3D food replicator to be used in space stations.
In May this year, a system was created that can print food such as milk, cheese, salt, sugar, flour and herbs of synthetic origin.
The source for the production of different types of organic powders to load the cartridges of 3D printers could be anything - from insects to algae and grass.
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