“It’s next door to their Innovation Center.
This McDonald’s is actually pretty unique. First of all it’s owned by McDonald’s, it’s not a franchise. Second, this is the store where McDonald’s tests all the new technology. New griddle? It gets tested here first. New ordering monitors, new deep fryer, all tested here first. If it doesn’t work here, they don’t offer it to their franchisees. They test everything in this store for YEARS before it gets mass produced so they’re sure it works well and is cost-effective.”
This is probably the future
The Government’s move to eliminate franchises and make all franchise employees into direct employees of the franchisor will kick the development of this technology into high gear.
“You have to pass it to find out what’s in it,” right, SEIU?
Sheetz and WaWa have been doing this for years but you have to pay a real live human cashier.
I like that not only can you robo-order but you can also robo-pay. Efficient.
Well there goes another class of people who will not have any spending money - the poor hard working crooks.
Doesn’t this disenfranchise those incapable of operating them? Call the Attorney General!
Automate the fast food franchises and there go the entry level jobs! Duh — the SEIU and other low information idiots don’t get it.
Looks a lot more efficient than milling around in the crowd in front of the registers wondering which one of them is actually manned and where your place in line is.
Hey SEIU! Unionize this!!!
Automation is going to take a lot of bottom end jobs, especially the more they raise the minimum wage.
But automation will create better paying skilled jobs in return. Not as many jobs, but better paying skilled jobs.
The people screaming for a high minimum wage are just killing the people in those jobs.
But some people, like my wife, would HATE this.
Men know what part of the store the item they want is in and what color and what size. They calculate the cost plus tax before they get to the register, They know what size burger and what size fries and whether it will be a Pepsi or Mt Dew before they go inside. But women today....well..there's gonna be a line...
Next, they will create a model that make diagnoses and crank out prescriptions.
Panera uses iPads with attached card-swipes mounted on a counter top. Sleek and gorgeous. Ordering is a breeze. One restaurant near here has six of them.
Of course, Panera really needs them. For some reason, it takes Panera customers unduly long to give an order to a human, such that it's not worth going in (to a store without iPad ordering) if there's any kind of a line.
They’ve seen how WalMart handles these things, and so they move forward with it.
Boy, that minimum wage idea works wonders.
You drive up & hear, “ Wecum to %&$# (unintelligible). Would you like to try our ^&$%@!*. Can I &())^#@er”. Then repeat endlessly your order until he/she/it tells you to drive up to the window, where you receive everything but what you ordered.
The speaker system was new in the 1940s. The order taker barely speaks understandable English, or not. The traffic noise around the restaurant makes a purchase nearly impossible.