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Taipei, Taiwan – Global fast food chain Burger King in Taiwan has tapped software-as-a-service (SaaS) company Appier to aid in its personalised marketing campaigns to boost local customer loyalty.

By leveraging Appier’s ‘AI Personalization Cloud’, Burger King Taiwan harnessed diverse creative modules to create engaging marketing campaigns, offering customers a unique and personalised experience.

Moreover, with Appier’s AI-powered personalised marketing platform, Burger King Taiwan was able to collect and analyse customers’ online behavior, including product pages browsed, and shopping cart items. This enabled Burger King Taiwan to execute targeted segmentation marketing campaigns based on detailed information about customer behaviour and preferences, allowing them to seize crucial moments of customer interactions.

Lastly, by integrating the ‘AI Personalization Cloud’ with the OpenWeather API, Burger King Taiwan can recommend products or promotional activities aligned with the local weather conditions in a user’s location. 

For instance, during warmer days, the platform will automatically recommend refreshing cold beverage promotions, while in the event of a high probability of rain, it will push delivery promotions. By offering customers the most suitable products or offers for their current situation, Burger King Taiwan was able to enhance customer loyalty even further.

Karin Jiang, marketing director at Burger King Taiwan, said, “Burger King Taiwan is committed to embracing new technologies and using creativity to drive sales. With AI data analysis and segmentation capabilities, we can develop personalised marketing strategies based on customer insights, delivering engaging and precise messages and offers to each customer, and seizing every communication touchpoint. Appier’s user-friendly solution, coupled with their proactive approach in proposing practical marketing strategies, has significantly enhanced our marketing endeavours.”

She added, “Looking ahead, Burger King Taiwan is excited to sustain our collaboration with Appier, planning more eye-catching and customer-centric marketing campaigns, fostering website interaction and conversions, and strengthening our customer loyalty relationships.”

Jakarta, Indonesia – Burger King Indonesia has launched a social campaign called #SunyiBersuara or “Voice of The Silent” which puts focus into inclusivity and equality of the workforce, especially for the deaf and mute community.

The campaign starts off with an “open letter” to food chains, encouraging them to hire differently-abled people in their establishments. In retrospect with today’s commemoration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Burger King Indonesia has stated that they have hired more than 100 deaf and mute people across franchises in Bali, Makassar, and Jakarta, and encouraging others to follow suit.

The “open letter” by Burger King Indonesia, encouraging food chains to make their workspace more inclusive for differently-abled people, especially the deaf and mute community (Courtesy of Burger King Indonesia)

“We started the hiring process towards the end of 2018 – it required us to build employment and training procedures from scratch, and we’ve learned a lot along the way. We understand that businesses may have several considerations before taking on this journey, as was the case with us initially” said Frida Marpaung, head of HR & CSR at Burger King Indonesia.

Furthermore, Burger King Indonesia is expounding the campaign by releasing an online tool-kit to give companies guidance on hiring persons with disability, understanding their needs, and reaching out to relevant NGOs and other stakeholder parties that will help with the training and supporting the differently-abled community.

“As we hired more crew members with disabilities in our restaurants, we realized it was us who was missing out on such amazing talent all this while,” says Vaibhav Punj CEO of Burger King Indonesia. 

Punj added, “In a guest satisfaction survey, we found that our special stores performed significantly better. Our intention of reaching out to companies with an Open Letter and publishing a Tool-Kit is to get them started on their special journey”.

To further encourage companies on fostering inclusivity, Burger King Indonesia has also published a video campaign, which follows the story of Debby, who communicates using Bahasa Indonesia Sign Language, and narrates how she goes on with her duties as a franchise employee, specifically as a counter keeper. 

The franchise has also made their company design assets more accessible such as posters that instruct customers how to place their order in sign language or simpler steps, company logos and slogans translated into sign language, and a chart for the local version of their sign language.

(LEFT) An infographic instructing customers how to order in a way to make it more accessible and easy for the differently-abled workers, (RIGHT) A chart inside a Burger King in Indonesia, showing how to learn the sign language in Bahasa Indonesia.

“As we transition to a new normal, we’re looking to make the hiring of persons with disabilities in the workforce a habit and we’re seeking the support of our F&B partners across Indonesia so that together we can make a big impact,” Punj added.

Burger King is a key member of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) International Businesses Disability Network (IBDN), which supports social initiatives in favor of workplace equality for differently-abled people.

A sign language interpretation of the words “Burger King” outside a Burger King establishment in Indonesia.

“Building a better future and inclusive society depends on our actions today. Indonesia business and disability network are a group of like-minded companies that promote the employment of workers with disabilities,” Kazutoshi Chatani, employment specialist at ILO Jakarta, stated.