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No more 'attitude at the counter': McDonald's new fully-automated restaurant which is completely run by MACHINES leaves internet divided - but do YOU think it's a good idea?
UK Daily Mail ^
| 12/21/2022
| LILLIAN GISSEN
Posted on 12/22/2022 9:50:29 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG
They had Automats in 1910. This is not a new concept but probably its time has come again.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:03:36 AM PST
by
Bayan
To: circlecity
Considering the simplicity of their food, there is no need for humans to do anything except load the machines with the necessary products.
the challenge to this business model is going to be having someone capable of quickly fixing jams in the machines that will inevitably happen.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:03:48 AM PST
by
NicoDon
To: Da Coyote
Automats used to be a ‘big deal.’ This isn’t new, it’s just a newer (computer based) technology.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:04:08 AM PST
by
shadowlands1960
(We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
To: Scrambler Bob
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:06:00 AM PST
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: PIF
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:07:05 AM PST
by
left that other site
(Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
To: DFG
We have a small local grocery with great owners who work very hard. Their parent company just forced them to put in self-checkouts because they keep hiring checkers who don’t even show up for their first day of work.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:10:09 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
To: PGR88
The ice cream machine is broken?!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:10:54 AM PST
by
TheDon
(Resist the usurpers)
To: EEGator
“You are an unfit mother, your children will be placed into custody of Carl’s Jr.”
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:10:54 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DFG
Great for McDonalds and people who have no taste for food. It frees labor to do something meaningful elsewhere while placating moron consumers brainwashed by obnoxious commercials. It’s a win-win.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:10:57 AM PST
by
ConservativeInPA
(Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
To: PIF
Minimum wage pressure, people paid to stay home, personnel “problems” yeah who didn’t see this conning?
To: PIF
Well, it does mean that it is less likely that an employee will prepare your order with bare hands ...The humans are still preparing the food and putting it in the bags. There is just no human interaction at the counter or window.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:12:27 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: DFG
A 21st century Horn & Hardart. Like all marketing schemes, it will have its day, and then fade into forgotten history.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:13:31 AM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: joshua c
its an automat
what will they think of next Going to the Moon, perhaps.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:14:11 AM PST
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
To: Red Badger
My last Big Mac was in Sept 1977. I worked at Radio Shack in Mission Valley to cover grad school at SDSU. The McDonald's was a parking lot away. The deli next door had better milkshakes, so I stopped through there for the shake. I generally spent under $4 for the Big Mag/shake.
My last "fast food" burger was a Carl's offering without a bun. About 4 years ago.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:14:54 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: DFG
By the way, eating at most fast-food joints is insane. Terrible food for the price, lousy service, and locations prone to violent people acting out, including the employees.
Go to any grocery store and get much better fast food at a better price with less danger.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:15:27 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
To: Red Badger
When I was a kid, you could go into McDonalds with $1 and get a hamburger fries and a shake for 99 cents. Leaving you a penny to buy a piece of gum. Just seriously dated myself.. that was around ‘67.
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:17:27 AM PST
by
shadowlands1960
(We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
To: Ezekiel
No one has been to the moon
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:17:29 AM PST
by
algore
To: DFG
Did they program the machines to spit in your food?
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:17:37 AM PST
by
Leep
(Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
To: DFG
She Bop on down to da Burger Klone.. d;^)
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:18:12 AM PST
by
CopperTop
(Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
To: DFG
Minimum wage kills jobs and removes the lower steps to full employment. My first job after getting out of the Army was as a common laborer for a construction company - pay $2 an hour! I could barely survive on it so I did everything I could to become more valuable to my employer. When I quit to go to school I was making $10 an hour.
Today I would not even be considered for that common laborer’s job, somebody willing to work for less (or under the table has that job today).
The dirty little secret with minimum wage is that a lot of unions have in their contracts that they must get so much more then minimum wage so they lobby to get the minimum wage raised so their members get a raise (and there is more money to support politicians).
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posted on
12/22/2022 10:18:28 AM PST
by
CIB-173RDABN
(I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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