Posted on 04/01/2024 11:37:09 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Operator Yum! Brands says about 45% of sales are digital
Yum! Brands, the operator of KFC, Pizza Hit, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill restaurants, is embracing technology with plans for "AI-powered" fast food, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company has been increasing investment in technology and automation, with about 45%, or $30 billion, of sales being digital – nearly twice what it was in 2019 – Yum's chief digital and technology manager Joe Park told the newspaper. That is roughly double the level of 2019.
"Our vision of [quick-service restaurants] is that an AI-first mentality works every step of the way," Park told the Wall Street Journal. "If you think about the major journeys within a restaurant that can be AI-powered, we believe it’s endless."
With California's new minimum wage law taking effect Monday, meaning most fast-food workers will be paid $20 per hour, most restaurant operators are turning to AI to cut costs and increase sales, the Journal reported.
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It is also to keep the criminal element from being able to assemble indoors. “Yes, Boo Boo, it’s them!” What I’m waiting for is the large blue cities telling the fast food restaurants that *all* of their locations within the city much have dine-in facilities or they can’t operate there at all. Maybe all the way to the state level in solidly blue states.
I guess we are moving a bit fast. This wasn’t supposed to happen for another 500 years.
Key verse is the year 5555.
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain’t gonna need your teeth, won’t need your eyes
You won’t find a thing to chew
Nobody’s gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube’ Whoooa
In the year 7510
If God’s a-comin’ he ought to make it by then
Maybe he’ll look around himself and say
Guess it’s time for the Judgement day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head then
He’ll either say I’m pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595
I’m kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive
He’s taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain’t put back nothing
Now it’s been 10, 000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man’s reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it’s only yesterday
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may thrive
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do or say
Is in the pill you took today....(fading...)
If they can teach AI to make enchiritos, tostadas, Bell Beefers, and chili cheese burritos at Taco Bell, they may have something.
Welcome to McSwinies.🤨
If you want to sit down to have a meal, you'll have to go to a Mexican restaurant.
We'll be at one such restaurant in a few days to celebrate a birthday. Pretty much half of our sit down meals when eating out are in a Mexican restaurant.
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