Posted on 01/29/2005 1:48:23 PM PST by MississippiMasterpiece
The McDonald's restaurant in Hermiston, Oregon appears to be "outsaucing" customers drive-thru meals.
The restaurant on Highway 395 has outsourced one of the most important jobs at the drive-through window -- order taking.
When a customer drives through, they'll be patched through to Grand Forks, North Dakota to place the order. Why? Because the minimum wage in North Dakota is $5.15, compared to Oregon's $7.25.
Tim Nesbit is head of Oregon AFLCIO. He says this undercuts Oregon's minimum wage by more than $2 an hour.
A McDonald's media relations person in Illinois, where the corporate headquarters is based, never returned a phone call to the AP.
Well, hey, it not going to and from India...yet.
Hey union thug! You want fries with that whine?
I really don't understand how this would work. You'd still need people on site to actually prepare and hand over the food, not to mention take the money. Don't those same people take the orders too?
no. they usually have one and sometimes two people just taking orders.
this can't be true.......can it....."pls pull up to the window, 50 miles away"............
And to spit in your greasy and unhealthy cuisine, as well as handle your food after taking a dump and not washing their hands.
Here's how it works:
http://www.iht.com/articles/529970.html
"And to spit in your greasy and unhealthy cuisine, as well as handle your food after taking a dump and not washing their hands."
Get a grip.
Grump!
Um, people don't like hearing about how prole-feed is made.
There is much, much more. Customers with "regular" orders can have a smart card pre-programmed with the data. All they have to do is swipe the card at the drive-through and their "regular" order will be prepared in seconds and be ready by the time they get to the dispensing machine. For a few seconds longer, they can customize an order.
It's coming.
Thank you for that informative link!
From the article "And he knows that people who like to eat hamburgers do not like the... the mistakes that often occur at drive-throughs..."
As the man says in Lethal Weapon ? "they always f*ck you at the drive through"
Actually one of the best fast food meals I ever had was when I was ask to "drive around again" when I ordered a fish sandwich at my local burger king. It was really excellent and well worth the wait.
Except for Wendy's and KFC I can't stand fast food, but I'm an American with a hungry family, and I can't cook so I must eat it sometimes. When I was young and single I never did.
McDonald's chicken fajitas aren't 1/2 bad either, if they haven't run out of them.
Sounds Perfect for me, I order the same thing 99% of the time. Just get it to me fast, and don't botch my order
Robotic assembly line hamburgers. Going to McDonald's is so impersonal now, this might be an improvement. You would still need someone to handle complaints, because people would complain even with an infallible system.
But the left keeps telling us that a higher minimum wage will solve everything!
Who's the clown now
> ... comes out with the machine that takes orders and
> fills them.
The experiments in stereolithography for plastics,
concrete and other non-ink applications could easily
lead to machines that spray proteins, carbs and fats
into edible shapes.
Heck, that's how Balance Bars and Zone Perfect bars
are pretty much made today.
We will eventually get food replicators. They just
won't work quite like they do on Star Trek.
My guess would be that a good phone person could handle two or three resturants..and probably gets paid more...
What happens when the voice recognition can be intigrated into this stuff?
How about automated cooking?
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