https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ai-voice-order-technology-drive-thrus-2024-6

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    5 months ago

    "Hello, can I take your order?"

    *indecipherable mumbling interspersed with crackling feedback over the sounds of a customer screaming at you from the other side of the counter.* "Uhm, excuse me, Hello??? Are you lazy fucks even listening‽"

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      It’s why touchscreen ordering works, but verbal.. may as well have a person do it.

      Maybe the real thing is that drive thru is kind of fucking stupid and a waste of space.