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Wendy's announces plans for underground autonomous robots to deliver food orders to vehicles
Fox Business ^ | 5/18/23 | Greg Wehner

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Food; Science
KEYWORDS: food; robots; underground; wendys
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To: roving

Ugh, you know those pipes will clog up just like the customers’. Chocolate shakes and mustard everywhere. How are they going to clean them out?


21 posted on 05/19/2023 6:35:37 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Vision

This Youtube video is about what was found in the chicken sandwiches of several fast food chains. It ain’t all chicken.

https://youtu.be/lqvFlEWRIa4


22 posted on 05/19/2023 6:47:31 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Libloather

Walked into my local Wendy’s ... was confronted by a computer screen and a slot for my credit card ... walked out.


23 posted on 05/19/2023 7:37:53 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (When Ashli Babbitt’s video-taped murderer Michael Byrd is indicted, I’ll start paying attention.)
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To: Bounced2X

” I am your servant.”


24 posted on 05/19/2023 7:59:24 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: cowboyusa

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25 posted on 05/19/2023 8:01:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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26 posted on 05/19/2023 8:11:06 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Libloather

Wonder what happens to the system if something jams up for some reason?


27 posted on 05/19/2023 8:13:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Libloather

Better looking than most of the employees these days...

28 posted on 05/19/2023 8:13:16 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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29 posted on 05/19/2023 8:15:25 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Libloather
the food delivered by what Pipedream calls "autonomous robots" that carry the food underground and to the portal.

A conveyor belt system?

30 posted on 05/19/2023 8:15:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Libloather

Homeless people find welcome wagons.


31 posted on 05/19/2023 8:42:21 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

ping for later


32 posted on 05/19/2023 9:34:56 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: Caipirabob

Who is gonna clean out the fungus, rot, and critters from the tunnel?
Let’s get this straight. In order to not get outta’ my car, food will be ordered digitally, probably made by a robot, delivered by underground robot to my car.

1) How would that stop any thief from stealing my food, or robbing me, or killing me while I wait at the delivery zone?
2) Will I have to pay higher taxes to pay for government benefits to the newly unemployed?

Idea sounds like a 11 year olds dream solution to world hunger problems.


33 posted on 05/19/2023 10:25:41 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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