Grubhub is bringing Amazon’s cashierless tech to high schools this fall

Grubhub’s bringing Amazon’s cashierless Simply Stroll Out know-how to some schools, the corporate introduced at the moment. The meals supply service will first deal with rolling out the tech to high schools, beginning with Loyola College Maryland subsequent week earlier than increasing nationwide.

The tech is able to figuring out objects taken from and returned to cabinets so college students and workers should purchase meals from on-campus shops with out ready in line. After scanning a QR code within the Grubhub app, the corporate will robotically cost their Grubhub-linked meal plans or different saved fee strategies after they depart the shop.

“With Simply Stroll Out know-how and Grubhub, college students, college, and workers will discover a handy strategy to buy the objects they want with a frictionless buying expertise to allow them to rapidly get again to their research,” mentioned Jon Jenkins, vice chairman of Simply Stroll Out know-how, AWS Functions, in a press launch.

That is simply one of many newest applied sciences Grubhub has adopted to make delivering meals simpler for US school college students lately, resembling robotic supply. Final yr, the corporate partnered with three new robot-powered supply service suppliers — Starship, Cartken, and Kiwibot — to ship meals through robots.

Grubhub isn’t the one firm utilizing AI to hurry up the meals ordering and supply course of. Uber Eats additionally makes use of robotic supply providers, whereas DoorDash not too long ago introduced AI will reply all of a restaurant’s telephone calls as part of the corporate’s new answering service.