The pilot automated fast food in a box systems are already being tested. If the Regime continues, they could find that the local burger chain outlet could be replaced by a full automated outlet with no people on site and supply personnel showing up periodically to fill the bins.
Perhaps then we will get what we ordered.
The automation of fast-food is a done deal, the only question is when.
The more interesting question, involves the automation of designer coffee. What will unemployable Liberal Arts grads do when even being a Starbucks Barista gets automated. . .
We have a small auto-gourmet coffee machine in my office. . .
And then there are these: