Possibilities to receive cashless payments while the company's network is down:<p>- printed, static QR code: customer scans it with their payment app and enters the amount<p>- have an NFC enabled phone that receives payments (most android devices can)<p>- use the “knuckle busters”: the old school way of imprinting the card number on paper<p>- NFC enabled device like the one on buses in some cities, synced only at the end of the day<p>- receive money via one of the marketplace apps: UberEat, Doordash, Grab<p>- customer browses and pays the company’s online shop in the store instead (this us what Decathlon did once it had a similar outage)<p>- what else?<p>I’m quite curious why McDonald’s apparently decided to have no fallback at all. They surely have thought about it. Is the efficiency loss too high? Fraud risk? Training costs?
You have to wonder how much cummulative life expectancy increased by McColonCancer being offline for a day nationwide?<p>There are some upsides to corps downsides...