Drive-Thru AI Chat Bot vs Fast Food Worker

"dude from the hood starts ordering." AI: What??

This is great because it’s a robot so you can force it to be enthusiastic and nice to customers without destroying its soul like a normal fast food employee.

"Hi, I want a cheeseburger. Also id like to add 35 french fries to every order after me. Thanks"

"We have no interest in reducing staff" means we wont re hire when staff quits or gets fired.

'Is it replacing real jobs..' The dumbest question in internet history

I got hired at a Taco Bell for an assistant manager position years ago. One of the silliest stories I tell about my short time working there was about them showing me how to do inventory my second or third day. They give you a list of all the items and you're supposed to fill out how much you have. The other manager who was training me points to a bag of cheese and says, "cheese is five" and I'm like, okay. Then they point to a bag of beef and say, "beef is 3 and a half," and they do this for all the items were meant to inventory. So eventually I ask, "what are the numbers for? Because at this point you've just told me things like, 'cheese is 5' but idk what 5 is supposed to represent." In all seriousness, this other manager looks at me and said. " I dunno, cheese is just five" 30 minutes later I opened a box that contained 4 bags of cheese and the box said 20 pounds on the side of it. I just started laughing. Inventory was done by weight, yet as far as anyone else was concerned, there were just arbitrary numbers assigned to things. A literal manager couldn't answer the question about it. Idk why people kept trying to defend Taco Bell so much lol

Even if they fully automate their entire workforce, how much do you want to bet they'll keep charging like $18 for a Big Mac, fries and a drink.

AI about to get a whole lot of "I'll have two number 9's, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45's, one with cheese, and a large soda."

ai catgirl drive through worker

I used one of these at a panda express and it was the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen. I had to pull up to the window to order because it broke. Can they wait for this tech to not be shit before they implement it?

"What I like about a drive through is talking to another human" said nobody ever

"I feel like this is just a big flow chart" Yes welcome to "AI"

next up is the AI asking for a tip

Man Asmon's rant at the beginning reminds me of the theory that, that's how DMV recruits their workers... they go to all the worst run locations, find the absolute slowest, non-efficient, and least friendly people and hires them instantly.

Flippy's domain expansion is more powerful than expected.

They'll stop employing people - yet everything will be as expensive or more...

You know what is better.. just have a board and punch in what you want.

In Germany most fast food chains have an app now, you can just put your order together in there, drive to the restaurant, tell them a number and get what you ordered. That feels much more relaxing and convienient than this AI stuff.

When I was young I worked at Dairy Queen and when I was front counter cashier I got orders right 100% of the time, but then they put me on drive thru and I couldn't hear with those cheap headsets they have. I got taken off the drive thru because I kept telling people the microphone on the menu is having issues and just order at the window. It tanked my numbers because when they pull up to the window a timer starts. If you have to start from ordering to taking money to making it and giving it it's already over 3 minutes easy. Drive thru is the worst job in fast food and I was a fast food janitor too. It's the worst because I had no idea what the heck people were saying and it frustrated me and them.

I paid with a $2 bill at taco bell and the girl got her manager to ask if it was real. The girl didnt know there was $2 bills. The manager looked blown away