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BenQ Group's smart retail: One-Stop 4-in-1 Solution Restaurant Chain Technology Concept Store, an exclusive debut
BenQ Group’s smart retail: One-Stop 4-in-1 Solution Restaurant Chain Technology Concept Store, an exclusive debut
BenQ Group companies, including Partner Tech, LaFresh, Mace Digital, Webest Solution as well as Epoint Systems, have joined hands to create a cross-countries solution called the ‘One-Stop 4-in-1 Solution’ (hardware, software, fintech, and service integration) to become the best global brand expansion partner.
LaFresh, and for the first time at COMPUTEX showed the front- and back-of-house applications of a fully smart restaurant using the ‘Formosa Chang future tech concept store’ as the main theme.
The most comprehensive smart restaurant – ‘Formosa Chang future tech concept store’ makes its debut at COMPUTEX Taipei 2023
After launching several self-help services such as barcode ordering, self-order kiosks, and KDS number-calling, ‘Formosa Chang iPlus+,’ the second-generation store of Taiwan’s famous gourmet brand Formosa Chang is gradually transforming into a smart restaurant. May Kang, CEO of LaFresh said, “Over the past two years, more and more newly opened stores were mainly self-order restaurants, and in 2022, more than 70 percent of consumers transactions were made online for these types of restaurants.”
At COMPUTEX, the AI multi-language recognition kiosk, cash kiosk for self-order, smart food pick-up counter, and other self-order procedures were introduced into an actual Formosa Chang restaurant scenario, combined with applications including the POS system, KDS kitchen system, and number-calling system, where all information is integrated through the LaaS all-channel platform, to create the ‘Formosa Chang future tech concept store,’ a fully automatic front- and back-of-house smart restaurant as a solution for labor shortages, to increase service efficiency, and to optimize the customer experience.
Exclusively developed with the concept of corporate sustainability in mind, ‘LaaS all-channel platform (LaFresh as a Service)’ has as many as 13 types of diverse integrated services, making it the flagship of integrated cloud platforms in the industry. Using the SaaS cloud structure to support continuous expansion of services and performance, it provides various new solutions, such as an OpenAI multi-language recognition Kiosk, LINE Beason recommendations push notifications, social platform ordering, a CRM system, multi-payment, a voucher system, and delivery platforms.
Built within the LaaS all-channel platform, the ‘LaaS data center’ further provides abundant statistical analytical information, including store location analysis and consumption habits analysis. The LaaS all-channel platform helps the catering retail industry to build paperless kitchens and encourage mobile payments to digitize the finance sector and implement ESG. By building a traceability system for food materials as the foundation for calculating carbon footprints, restaurants can reduce food waste.
Taiwan’s only exclusively developed AI multi-language recognition Kiosk incorporates Microsoft technologies to build a smart catering future
Microsoft’s Azure, OpenAI, and Speech-to-Text AI technologies are incorporated into the AI multi-language recognition Kiosk exclusively developed by LaFresh. After selecting the language when using the Kiosk while ordering, the system can recognize human speech syntax and semantics through simple conversations. Not only can consumers converse with robots and order, but they can also receive personalized push recommendations. This provides a quick and recognizable consumer experience for local consumers and foreign travelers alike.
Future collaborations with Microsoft will focus on gradually implementing diverse scenarios in catering and retail. This includes using the Azure cloud computing structure to build even more comprehensive multi-language online and physical AI smart ordering scenarios through OpenAI, and integrating store management applications into Teams, and making forecasts through AI to reduce food waste.
Market share of 30% – BenQ Group’s Asian multi-national alliance in smart catering retail
The servicing range of Partner Tech’s POS system includes restaurant ordering and billing, staff-less hotel check-ins, retail stores, cinemas, and any other scenarios in need of increasing transaction efficiency and customer experiences. Through diversified IoT options, consumers are allowed more options when making payments to minimize contact, which increases the convenience of payment collection for business owners. At the same time, these solutions provide a cloud-integrated software platform (CDM) to control the sales conditions of each store and to manage the terminal and peripheral equipment of the POS machines.
Mace Digital concentrates its efforts on the integration and development of POS systems for the catering service sector. By grasping the catering industry know-how and trends, Mace Digital has developed a catering POS function that fulfills market demands and expectations and features flexibility, stability, expandability, is future-proof, and rich value-added. They have also accumulated online service experiences from several chain stores and big-name clients. The easy-to-use, user-friendly interface and intuitive operation provided at reasonable prices can fulfill the current and future needs of SMEs to open stores.
LaFresh and Mace Digital have a 30 percent market share of F&B business in Taiwan. Epoint Systems also own a 30 percent market share in the catering business in Singapore; jointly, they provide the best services for exclusive overseas operations integration for Taiwan and Southeast Asia. This multi-national alliance helps corporate customers to expand stores overseas, connect to local systems seamlessly, manage trade regulations such as currency differences and tax systems, and ultimately send all information back to corporate headquarters for management through the LaaS all-channel platform cloud computing.
The BenQ Group at COMPUTEX 2023:
BenQ, Qisda, ACE PILLAR, AEWIN Technologies, Alpha Networks, APLEX Technology, DATA IMAGE, DFI, DSIGroup, D8ai, Epic Cloud, Epoint Systems, Grandsys, Hitron Technologies, Interactive Digital Technologies(IDT), LaFresh, Mace Digital, MetaAge, MetaGuru, Partner Tech, PowerWalker, and WEBEST Solution
About BenQ Group
The BenQ Group (wholly owned by Qisda listed in TWSE:2352) is a global technology group with businesses spanning across the IT industry, medical business, smart solutions, and network communication business. The Group invested in 16 Taiwan-listed/over-the-counter companies, entered the vertical and horizontal integration market, and built strong business alliance by “Grand Fleet” strategy. The Group’s accumulated revenue of 2022 was NT$240 billion.
The Group has been ranked as one of the “Top 100 Global Tech Leaders” by Thomson Reuters, named among the “Best Companies to Work For in Asia” by HR Asia, and awarded the “Most Prestigious Sustainability Awards – Top Ten Domestic Corporates” by the Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards. The Group joined RE100 and promised completely 100% renewable energy use by 2040.
Driven by a long-standing vision of Bringing Enjoyment ‘N Quality to Life, the BenQ Group is committed to developing profitable and sustainable businesses that benefit people. The BenQ Group companies are: BenQ Corporation, Qisda Corporation, BenQ Materials Corp., BenQ Medical Center, BenQ Medical Technology Corp., BenQ AB DentCare Corp., BenQ Dialysis Technology Corp., K2 international medical inc., BenQ Healthcare Corp., Concord Medical Co., Ltd., DFI Inc., Partner Tech Corp., AEWIN Technologies Co., Ltd., MetaAge Corp., ACE PILLAR Co., LTD., Data Image Corp., DIVA Laboratories. Ltd., Simula Technology Inc., Alpha Networks Inc., Hitron Technologies Inc., and Interactive Digital Technologies Inc (IDT).
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