That's right, Louie! ;-)

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Maybe you should have stayed, at least on the left coast here:




https://www.usatoday.com/...rts-show/1065434001/

True, but people suck. I like the self-serve kiosks. I've only used them a couple of times and I didn't find it very fast but at least I don't have to talk to anyone.

I don’t have any experience with self serve kiosks at fast food joints. But ordering coffee and a breakfast sandy through the Starbucks mobile app is the most simple and convenient process ever. Being able to just walk inside and see it already made and sitting on the counter waiting for me, while cutting in front the entire fucking city that is queued up either in the drive thru or waiting for their order inside is priceless.

I've wondered how often those app orders walk away with someone that was not the purchaser. At my local SB, no one is paying attention to all those orders sitting on the counter. It would be so easy to grab your order and a couple of others and walk out.

I wouldn't eat McD's unless all other options were exhausted. But here is a pic of a real life big mac.



I would gladly take the $6 robot made burger over this.

That’s a good point. But it has never happened to any of my orders yet.

Wow, would you like any fixings with that bread?

No doubt this is the direction we are going though. It was going to happen whether minimum wage was $15 or $7.25.

I'm not sure that's the case. This level of significant automation isn't cheap, and it's often one of those things that business owners will put off until it becomes necessary, as it's not necessarily the same as, say, swapping out light bulbs for more energy efficient ones, where the cost differential isn't that significant and can be recuperated in the short run. Sometimes it takes some shock to the business to push it toward more automation. A significant increase in the minimum wage may be such a shock. Another could be a recession. I suspect all it will take is the next recession to radically alter the workforce.

To some extent, I think this ties in to the universal basic income thread.

I want to know what McD's that person went to that had real plates.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

I think people are much more honest and ethical than we generally give them credit for. There are definitely people who will steal in this situation, and I think the type of people who would steal once would do it multiple times - in which case the store would likely hear about it and eventually catch the person. But 99% of people would NOT steal like this.

Regardless, if stealing online/app orders became an issue the store would figure out a solution - could be as simple as leaving the orders behind the counter and the person ordering has to show their online receipt to get their order.

I started another thread about the Universal Basic Income as a response to AI/automation and the podcast discussion that inspired the thread hit on this exact idea: we won't know just how fucked our economy really is, as it relates to job loss due to automation, until we hit a recession. Once businesses are forced to either trim the fat or go out of business we'll see just how much progress robots and automation has made in the past decade. I almost want a recession to hit NOW, to get a preview into what our economy is evolving into, rather than another 5 years with that much more technological advancement. It's scary to think about how much can be replaced TODAY with a little money and tech, how much further will things be 5 or 10 years from now?

"The self serve kiosks are a pain in the ass. It's much faster to place your order with a real, live human. "

It depends. Wawa and Sheetz have had these for years now, and they are great. Walk up, punch a bunch of buttons, and then go pay. Come back and get your food.

Panera tried it is just confusing. Maybe its too many options, or maybe the menu is just poorly designed. Don't know.

Like anything, I'm sure it will find its place. I would think fast food would be that place.

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I am talking specifically about McDicks. I have no idea what a wawa or a sheetz is.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

For the record, Hambergur from Five Guys Westborough, S.F., Cal., is $6.99.

I have trouble saying or writing ambergur, like this guy:

Steve Martin

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