More US restaurants remove dining areas

聽 力 掃 障

1. cash register 收銀機

2. ghost /ɡ??st/ n. 幽靈

掃 碼 聽 測

Track 01

I. 判斷正誤

聽錄音并閱讀3個簡短的陳述，根據錄音內容判斷這些陳述是否符合所聽內容，考查重點是學生對意義的理解能力和信息獲取能力。

In this section, you will hear a passage.After you hear the passage, decide whether each of the statement is correct (A), incorrect (B) or not mentioned (C).

Ⅱ. 聽寫練習

一邊聽錄音一邊閱讀以下文字材料，這些文字材料不是錄音的全部內容， 而是以提綱、摘要、筆記、圖標等形式再現的錄音的主要內容， 需要補全的內容一般是錄音中的關鍵信息。 注意每空一詞。

1. With apps increasingly used to order food, dining rooms are_________from restaurants in America.

2. In the new Chopt Creative Salad Company restaurant, we can hardly find cash registers or________________.

3. Chick-fli-A has planned to set up________delivery kitchens.

4.________________are a major growth area for fast-food restaurants.

5. For Chopt, the delivery orders make up nearly________of its business at larger restaurants.

文 本 解 說

數字化的發展給我們的生活帶來了很大的便利。目前，因為數字化的影響，越來越多的美國人喜歡使用手機app訂購食物，從而使得很多飯店取消了店內用餐區。

Dining rooms are disappearing from restaurants in the United States, as Americans increasingly use apps to order food.

One example is the new Chopt Creative Salad Company restaurant, which opened last week in New York City. It is unlike any of the company's other 61 restaurants. It has nocash registersor dining tables. Atlanta-based restaurant Chick-fil-A has similar locations in two cities: Nashville, Tennessee and Louisville,Kentucky. Customers order and prepay online.They can either go to the store for their meal or have it sent to them.

Chick-fil-A is also trying something different.The company has announced plans to set up three delivery kitchens. In all three, Chick-fil-A will share space with other restaurants to prepare food for delivery only.

Digital orders are a major growth area for fast-food and fast-casual restaurant chains. More are turning to these dark, orghostkitchens to cut costs. Wendy's, another fast-food business,announced last month that it aimed to open two“dark kitchens” by the end of the year.

Some food delivery-only operations in New York and San Francisco have failed in recent years. But in January, Travis Kalanick's Cloud-Kitchens got a 400 million investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, Reuters reported. Kalanick is a co-founder of ride service Uber. The Wall Street Journal first reported the investment earlier this month.

CloudKitchens, founded in 2016, builds shared food preparation areas for delivery-only restaurants to rent.

Julie Atkinson is the Chief Marketing Officer for Chopt. She says the company offered pick-up and delivery orders soon after it opened 18 years ago. “Today those orders make up nearly half of its business at larger restaurants,” she said.

“We are sensing a really huge customer need for speed, for convenience,” she said.“We're hopeful that this concept really raises the bar on customer convenience.”

On November 5, coffee house Starbucks opened its first Starbucks pickup store in the United States for online orders. The new store is similar to some new Starbucks stores in China,where digital ordering is more common.