Business Information Systems
BIS320
Determining Operating Systems and Software Applications
Since 1955 the McDonald’s Corporation has become the largest and best known fast food franchise in the world. Employing over 1.8 million employees, with over 34,000 restaurants and 5000 franchises worldwide, McDonald’s Corporation serves over 69 million customers a day (McDonalds, 2013). To meet that challenge, McDonald’s Corporation has developed signature software and hardware to maintain operations at a pace known to no other restaurant chain.
The operating system and software applications used by McDonald’s restaurants. It will describe how the operating system and applications helps the company reach its objectives, and the functions of computer hardware components used in the organization. Finally, information will be provided of examples of input hardware, output hardware, and storage hardware and describe how they are used by McDonald’s Corporation.
Main Operating System and Software Applications
An organization of this size must rely on numerous levels of information technology that is constantly changing. Commonly referred to in the past century as the cash register, the point-of-sale systems now can receive payment from credit or debit cards from smart-phones. Millions of transactions are conducted daily from various types of point-of-sale systems; all interact with the customers and exchange payment. The corporation is continually seeking to improve and advance this process.
The franchisees themselves, in the United States have tremendous leeway as to how they may actually run the restaurants . Most, if not all are always attempting to increase speed and efficiency of customer sales and services with the latest applications. In September, 2013 for example, mobile payment application testing was conducted with restaurants in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas. Place
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