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You’re stuck in a sea of standstill traffic when they begin; hunger pangs, the kind that unleash a steady stream of fast-food fa
You’re stuck in a sea of standstill traffic when they begin; hunger pangs, the kind that unleash a steady stream of fast-food fa
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2021-09-25
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You’re stuck in a sea of standstill traffic when they begin; hunger pangs, the kind that unleash a steady stream of fast-food fantasizing. With your grumbling stomach growing louder, your options are limited; You can wait a few hours for the roadways to clear or pull a Michael Douglas in the movie "Falling Down," leaving your car idling on the freeway while you set off on foot (please don’t do this).
Now Burger King, the global hamburger behemoth, is betting that hungry drivers will welcome
a third option
; a direct-to-driver delivery concept the company has labeled " The Traffic Jam Whopper. " Using an app developed by the burger chain, the initiative—which is being rolled out in Mexico City following a one-month pilot program—allows drivers to order food delivered directly to their car via motorcycle. A video released by the company shows a motorcycle delivery driver weaving through slow-moving traffic before knocking on a customer’s window and handing over a bag of food.
Reached by email, Gustavo Lauria, co-founder of the advertising agency We Believers, which developed the vehicle delivery concept, said the new approach allows the burger chain to capitalize on a time of day in which the city’s nightmarish traffic typically slows business. " Mexico City has the worst traffic in the world (according to the latest TomTom Global Traffic index) ," Lauria wrote. "People spend up to five hours in their daily commute—meaning they are not in their houses or offices to order delivery. " "This was an opportunity for Burger King to generate new revenue out of those hungry drivers," Lauria added. "In fact, The Traffic Jam Whopper increased deliveries by 63% during the month of April in participating restaurants.
Food delivery apps have exploded in popularity in recent years, with companies like DoorDash, Postmates, Grubhub and Uber Eats seizing on consumers’ desire for customized meals and convenience. In a recent report, the research firm Cowen and Co. forecasts that U. S. restaurant delivery sales will continue to skyrocket, reaching $76 billion by 2022. To meet the demand, restaurant owners are scaling back seating, and car companies are rushing to create autonomous vehicles capable of delivering food without human drivers.
Amid that influx of innovation, Lauria claims Burger King is the first fast-food brand to deliver food to people in the middle of a traffic jam. In Mexico City, the company said, delivery drivers are already receiving an average of 7,000 orders per day, mostly to homes and offices. To make the traffic jam delivery process possible, Burger King’s Mexico app activates the service after identifying congested areas in Mexico City during periods of high traffic. Customers can place an order only if the app determines that the driver will be locked in traffic for at least 30 minutes and they are within 1.8 miles of a Burger King restaurant, the company said. Push notifications alert drivers when they’ve entered a delivery zone, and company billboards display information about the status of customer orders. Drivers are prompted to place their order using hands-free voice command.
Early on, Lauria wrote, the initiative was met with skepticism. The challenges were complex; making sure real-time geolocation data was accurate enough to intercept a moving target and creating a hands-free interface to take orders in a country that has adopted stiff penalties for drivers who use cellphones behind the wheel. "Ultimately, to make sure we could predict traffic density accurately, we analyzed historical Waze data from Mexico—such as average speed, journey length, possible deviations from main streets and distance from Burger King restaurants—to identify ideal locations and times of the day where delivery to cars stuck in traffic was doable," Lauria wrote.
Though the company did not offer a timeline, Burger King says it expects to roll out the Traffic Jam Whopper in other cities with high-density traffic, such as Los Angeles, Sao Paulo and Shanghai.
What does the phrase "a third option" (Line 2, Para. 2)refer to?
选项
A、The rider delivering the meal directly to the home.
B、The rider delivering the meal directly to the car.
C、Drivers using their mobile phones to place orders.
D、Giving coupons to drivers who place orders in traffic jams.
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干提示可定位到第二段。第二段中提到第三种选择或将受到欢迎,接着说明了第三种选择指的是“直接送餐到车”,并将这一想法赋予了“堵车皇堡”的概念,因此[B]为正确选项。[A]是传统的送餐的概念;[C]与原文不符,只要网上订餐都要使用手机下单;[D]选项没有提到。
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