{"id":96057,"date":"2019-09-10T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T04:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/mcdonalds-acquires-tech-company-apprente-to-automate-drive-through-process"},"modified":"2019-09-10T21:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T04:22:26","slug":"mcdonalds-acquires-tech-company-apprente-to-automate-drive-through-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/mcdonalds-acquires-tech-company-apprente-to-automate-drive-through-process","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s acquires tech company Apprente to automate drive-through process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mcdonalds-acquires-tech-company-apprente-to-automate-drive-through-process2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sept. 10 (UPI) \u2014 McDonald\u2019s on Tuesday announced the acquisition of a company that will assist in automating its drive-through process.<\/p>\n<p>The fast-food chain agreed to a deal to<a href=\"https:\/\/news.mcdonalds.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/McDonalds\/acquire\/apprente\" target=\"_blank\"> acquire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mcdonalds.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/McDonalds\/acquire\/apprente\" target=\"_blank\">Apprente<\/a>, a California-based company that was founded in 2017 with a focus on creating voice-based platforms for \u201ccomplex, multilingual, multi-accent and multi-item conversational ordering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s said Apprente\u2019s technology will be used to allow for faster, simpler and more accurate order taking at its drive-throughs and may later be incorporated into mobile ordering and kiosks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 10 (UPI) \u2014 McDonald\u2019s on Tuesday announced the acquisition of a company that will assist in automating its drive-through process. The fast-food chain agreed to a deal to acquire Apprente, a California-based company that was founded in 2017 with a focus on creating voice-based platforms for \u201ccomplex, multilingual, multi-accent and multi-item conversational ordering.\u201d McDonald\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}