Posted on 05/19/2023 2:11:57 AM PDT by Libloather
Wendy’s fast-food customers may soon get their food delivered by underground robots, to help speed up the handoff from the restaurant to those who order from their phones.
The fast-food chain announced a new partnership with Pipedream, a company that developed an underground autonomous robot system that can be used to deliver digital food orders from the kitchen to parking spaces within seconds.
The goal, Wendy’s said in a press release, is to provide faster and more convenient pick-up experiences.
"We know that serving orders quickly and accurate leads to increased customer satisfaction," Wendy’s Company U.S. Chief Operations Officer Deepak Ajmani said. "Pipedream’s Instant Pickup system has the potential to unlock greater mobile order speed of service and accuracy, enabling us to consistently deliver hot and fresh Wendy’s products to our fans."
Wendy’s will be the first quick-service restaurant to pilot Pipedream’s technology, which the tech company says is designed to make digital order pick-up fast, dependable and invisible.
Once installed, the kitchen at your local Wendy’s will be directly connected to a portal outside the restaurant.
After placing a mobile order, the customer will then pull up to a portal and have the food delivered by what Pipedream calls "autonomous robots" that carry the food underground and to the portal.
Customers will not have to leave their vehicles to receive their order.
Wendy’s also says the technology will allow the restaurants to increase efficiencies with crew members by streamlining digital orders.
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I go to Culver’s ‘cause I know it’s gonna be fresh and hot. I’ll wait.
The most vulnerable of Wendy’s employees will be further from being a point-blank target...
Deepak Ajmani…that might explain what I have seen behind the counter of almost every Wendy’s in Northern Virginia and why I’ve stopped eating at them.
Instead why not make better food?
And focus on getting the orders right.
Do they speak proper English?
They decided not to go with my competing technology using female android robots on wheeled skates to deliver the food to the cars.
¡No necesitamos hablar un inglés estúpido!
Business plan; Ferals can’t mug an “underground robot”?
“Food delivered underground” does not sound appetizing.
So you have to pull up, fiddle with their app you’ll have to download. Navigate through menus and options. And then it comes out of a tube or something?
So much for extra ice in the drink, or asking a question, or wanting pepper or extra ketchup. Oh, and you need to stop your phone call or podcast to make the transaction.
Do they not get it?
Underground robots?
I hope they do not look like the Replicators from Star Gate:SG1.
But seriously, what would those things look like? They could easily be scary to some people.
The good news, maybe, is that many of those illegals pouring over the border will have underground jobs cleaning those underground robot assembly lines for under the table pay.
Dave will be able to keep an eye on the underground operation.
Those systems should be fun to clean. I think I’ll pass.
What happens when the order is wrong?
Digging up streets in expensive-real estate areas to create an underground delivery system for a business that is low margin to begin with? Sounds like a plan.
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