The opening of Lanzhou's first unmanned intelligent coffee shop takes less than two minutes to buy.

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According to Lanzhou Evening News, a 6-square-meter transparent glass room contains a simple wind bar, some wooden tables and chairs, an automatic coffee machine and fully intelligent decoration to form Lanzhou's first 24-hour unmanned intelligent cafe. One after another, people come into the store to take pictures and have a rest, while some customers use their mobile phones to scan the QR code on the machine to buy coffee for themselves. The shop was unattended but orderly. Recently, the first 24-hour unmanned intelligent cafe in Lanzhou has been opened to the public on the streets of Lanzhou, and many customers have had a fresh experience.

Experience: freshly ground hot coffee and even buttered tea in one minute

Glass frame shape, the area is small, about 6 square meters, from a distance looks like a "big box", this is the unmanned cafe located on the south side of Lanzhou Photo Studio. On the morning of December 14, five days after its opening, the reporter came to the unmanned cafe. Following the instructions at the door, just like entering the ATM store of the bank, the reporter pressed the button to open the door. When entering the cafe, there is a TV and an air conditioner on the middle and south side of the cafe, and the coffee machine, the core equipment of the store, is placed on the west side, and there is also a window sitting area and a message interactive area next to it.

Without a cashier, how can customers shop in the "unmanned Cafe"? The reporter also experienced it himself. The reporter chooses his favorite drinks on the coffee machine's own order page, including common American style, latte, juice, milk, and even buttered tea with northwest flavor, with prices ranging from 7.9 yuan to 13.9 yuan. In this process, customers can also adjust your favorite coffee taste through the concentration of sugar, coffee and milk. Then entered the payment stage, the payment method can choose Alipay or Wechat, as long as the payment code in the scan area, that is, to complete the payment, it will complete the entire purchase process. When the payment is completed, the coffee machine starts to work. The whole process takes less than two minutes from entering the door, shopping, to completing the payment and leaving the cafe.

Dialogue: plans to develop 10 stores to become a warm corner of the streets of Lanzhou

In unmanned cafes, shopping depends on mobile phone scanning code, so is there a restriction on the customer base? According to Zhang Zhen, marketing manager of the unmanned cafe, through the observation these days, the customers are mainly young people, and the buying time is mainly concentrated in the morning, middle and evening rest period. "they usually stop in after school and after work to buy a cup of coffee. There are also people who come in to visit and wait for someone to keep warm. " Zhang Zhen said that so far, the sales of unmanned cafes are very optimistic, with an average of about 30 to 40 people buying every day, and the daily sales are concentrated between 300 and 500 yuan.

According to Zhang Zhen, the original purpose of building a 24-hour unmanned cafe is to provide convenience for passers-by who want to drink coffee at any time, and to make a warm corner of the streets of Lanzhou. "our store is fully intelligent decoration, lighting, TV, air conditioning, audio can be voice control, just like the voice assistant installed in the mobile phone, direct voice command operation can be done. You come into our cafe, do not drink coffee, you can also sit and rest, listen to music, read books, watch TV and relax. Now the weather is getting colder and colder, and the air conditioners in the store are all hot air. We also welcome our sanitation workers, civilized advisors and traffic police to come in between work to keep warm. " Zhang Zhen said that although there is only one unmanned cafe open to the outside world, their goal is to open 10 intelligent unmanned cafes in the city next year to apply science and technology to life services, so that more citizens can enjoy convenient life and feel the human temperature brought about by science and technology.