アメリカではあまり見かけないのですが、日本ではレストランに入る前に食べたいものの食券を販売機で買って、着席後お店の人に渡して注文をするシステムが多くあります。例えば私の好きな「吉野家」を始め日本のファーストフード店の多くがこのシステムを採用しています。これには店員が現金を扱わなくて済むという大きなメリットがあります。というわけで日本ではファーストフード店に強盗が入ったと言う話を聞くことはありません。
Meal Ticket
It is not common in the U.S., but in Japan, there is a system where you buy a meal ticket for the food you want to eat from a vending machine before entering a restaurant, and hand it to the waiter after you are seated to order. For example, my favorite restaurant Yoshinoya and many other Japanese fast food restaurants use this system. This has the great advantage that in many cases the waitress does not have to handle cash. This is why you will never hear about robberies in fast food restaurants in Japan.
Apart from that, this system works because, unlike in the U.S., the prices written on restaurant menus include the consumption tax. Another major reason why this system can be implemented is that there is no tipping system in Japan as there is in the US. Recently, due to the coronavirus, we have seen a system where you can order using a tablet or other device placed like "Ootoya", instead of directly ordering from the waitress.
In the future, we will see more and more orders being placed using meal tickets, tablets, and smartphone apps. At the same time, the use of meal vouchers, tablets, and smartphone apps for payment will complete a system in which the clerk does not have to touch the cash. In your country, do you have a system for ordering food using meal tickets?
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