Posted on 09/08/2014 12:53:05 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Burgers via call center?
Jack in the Box in Charlotte North Carolina testing process of outsourcing fast-food orders.
That crackling voice taking your order at a fast-food drive-through may come from a lot farther away than the restaurant: Try Texas, or even overseas.
San Diego-based Jack in the Box has tested outsourced drive-through order-taking since mid-2008 at seven of its 30 Charlotte-area restaurants. Spokeswoman Kathleen Anthony declined to specify the locations, though workers at the Cotswold restaurant in Charlotte recently said their restaurant uses the system.
The technology is intended to improve speed, accuracy and service, freeing up restaurant employees to process orders,
That crackling voice taking your order at a fast-food drive-through may come from a lot farther away than the restaurant: Try Texas, or even overseas.
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That’s basically what I do with Domino’s Pizza.
I order it online, and by the time I get to the store, it’s ready.
I love their little Order Tracker for delivery orders
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Posted on 9/6/2014, 9:19:39 AM by KeyLargo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3201179/posts?page=2
So I guess those $15 an hour employees won’t be needed.
Some fast food restaurants have been doing this for years.
I don’t see myself buying and consuming a robot made burger, but I don’t eat fast food anyway.
That order-and-delivery won’t work in rural areas like this one unless there is a grocery chain with a store within 25 miles or so, because there are in-Texas-only chain grocery stores in the nearest two towns-20 miles or less. But when it comes to other stuff, most people order retail stuff on the internet already-cheap and fast, UPS delivered to the door no gas used, or go to the nearest local stores. Cell phone service is not perfect here-not enough towers, not many people either-those of who live here love it...
Maybe as far as Australia for those kangaroo burgers.
The technology is intended to improve speed, accuracy and service, freeing up (NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING) restaurant employees
That’s almost funny. They have to go abroad to find English speaking help for the order window. But they can’t hire it locally.
Wonderful, as if that crackling voice was hard enough to understand, soon it will be English as a second (or third) language...
How many of the people taking orders will be doing that concurrent with their IT desk jobs for America?
How long until they complain about having to take offensive orders for sacred cow meat all day?
$$$/hr
“They have to go abroad to find English speaking help for the order window. But they can’t hire it locally.”
more workers to lose jobs over raises in the minimum wage
drops many of them would have kept without a raise in the legal minimum wage
what is one of the ancillary effects of raises in the legal minimum wage? it is one of the factors that contribute to the growth of the permanently unemployed
more workers to lose jobs over raises in the minimum wage
drops many of them would have kept without a raise in the legal minimum wage
what is one of the ancillary effects of raises in the legal minimum wage? it is one of the factors that contribute to the growth of the permanently unemployed, as it prices the least skilled and least educated out of the workforce
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