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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

McDonald's has opened up a fully-automated restaurant in Texas, which is completely run by machines so you don't have to speak to anyone, and it has left people on the internet divided.

The brand-new eatery, located just outside Fort Worth, uses advanced technology so that customers can order their food and receive their meal without having to interact with any humans, and while some people are excited about the idea, others find it a little creepy.

A TikToker who goes by the username @foodiemunster online recently visited the restaurant and documented the entire thing on the video-sharing app, and it launched a major debate among viewers.

The video featured a McDonald's with no employees behind the counter. Near the entrance, stood large touch screens for people to place their orders on.

'If you go inside, you’ll see that it’s like no other McDonald’s you’ve been to before. There’s one kiosk to order your food,' the TikToker explained.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: automation; fortworth; mcdonalds; texas
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To: DFG

They had Automats in 1910. This is not a new concept but probably its time has come again.


41 posted on 12/22/2022 10:03:36 AM PST by Bayan
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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.


42 posted on 12/22/2022 10:03:48 AM PST by NicoDon
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To: Da Coyote

Automats used to be a ‘big deal.’ This isn’t new, it’s just a newer (computer based) technology.


43 posted on 12/22/2022 10:04:08 AM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Scrambler Bob

44 posted on 12/22/2022 10:06:00 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: PIF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d7SaO0JAHk


45 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.)
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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.


46 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)
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To: PGR88

The ice cream machine is broken?!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!


47 posted on 12/22/2022 10:10:54 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: EEGator

“You are an unfit mother, your children will be placed into custody of Carl’s Jr.”


48 posted on 12/22/2022 10:10:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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.


49 posted on 12/22/2022 10:10:57 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: PIF

Minimum wage pressure, people paid to stay home, personnel “problems” yeah who didn’t see this conning?


50 posted on 12/22/2022 10:11:15 AM PST by gibsonguy
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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.

51 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.)
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To: DFG

A 21st century Horn & Hardart. Like all marketing schemes, it will have its day, and then fade into forgotten history.


52 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)
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To: joshua c
its an automat

what will they think of next

Going to the Moon, perhaps.

53 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)
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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.

54 posted on 12/22/2022 10:14:54 AM PST by Myrddin
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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.


55 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)
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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.


56 posted on 12/22/2022 10:17:27 AM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Ezekiel

No one has been to the moon


57 posted on 12/22/2022 10:17:29 AM PST by algore
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To: DFG

Did they program the machines to spit in your food?


58 posted on 12/22/2022 10:17:37 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: DFG
She Bop on down to da Burger Klone.. d;^)


59 posted on 12/22/2022 10:18:12 AM PST by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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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).


60 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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