No more 'attitude at the counter': McDonald's new fully-automated restaurant which is completely run by MACHINES leaves internet divided - but do YOU think it's a good idea?

UK Daily Mail ^ | 12/21/2022 | LILLIAN GISSEN

[Bayan]

They had Automats in 1910. This is not a new concept but probably its time has come again.

[NicoDon]

Considering the simplicity of their food, there is no need for humans to do anything except load the machines with the necessary products.

the challenge to this business model is going to be having someone capable of quickly fixing jams in the machines that will inevitably happen.

[shadowlands1960]

Automats used to be a ‘big deal.’ This isn’t new, it’s just a newer (computer based) technology.

[moovova]

[left that other site]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d7SaO0JAHk

[SaxxonWoods]

We have a small local grocery with great owners who work very hard. Their parent company just forced them to put in self-checkouts because they keep hiring checkers who don’t even show up for their first day of work.

[TheDon]

The ice cream machine is broken?!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

[dfwgator]

“You are an unfit mother, your children will be placed into custody of Carl’s Jr.”

[ConservativeInPA]

Great for McDonalds and people who have no taste for food. It frees labor to do something meaningful elsewhere while placating moron consumers brainwashed by obnoxious commercials. It’s a win-win.

[gibsonguy]

Minimum wage pressure, people paid to stay home, personnel “problems” yeah who didn’t see this conning?

[IYAS9YAS]

Well, it does mean that it is less likely that an employee will prepare your order with bare hands ...

The humans are still preparing the food and putting it in the bags. There is just no human interaction at the counter or window.

[chajin]

A 21st century Horn & Hardart. Like all marketing schemes, it will have its day, and then fade into forgotten history.

[Ezekiel]

its an automat

what will they think of next

Going to the Moon, perhaps.

[Myrddin]

My last Big Mac was in Sept 1977. I worked at Radio Shack in Mission Valley to cover grad school at SDSU. The McDonald's was a parking lot away. The deli next door had better milkshakes, so I stopped through there for the shake. I generally spent under $4 for the Big Mag/shake.

My last "fast food" burger was a Carl's offering without a bun. About 4 years ago.

[SaxxonWoods]

By the way, eating at most fast-food joints is insane. Terrible food for the price, lousy service, and locations prone to violent people acting out, including the employees.

Go to any grocery store and get much better fast food at a better price with less danger.

[shadowlands1960]

When I was a kid, you could go into McDonalds with $1 and get a hamburger fries and a shake for 99 cents. Leaving you a penny to buy a piece of gum. Just seriously dated myself.. that was around ‘67.

[algore]

No one has been to the moon

[Leep]

Did they program the machines to spit in your food?

[CopperTop]

She Bop on down to da Burger Klone.. d;^)

[CIB-173RDABN]

Minimum wage kills jobs and removes the lower steps to full employment. My first job after getting out of the Army was as a common laborer for a construction company - pay $2 an hour! I could barely survive on it so I did everything I could to become more valuable to my employer. When I quit to go to school I was making $10 an hour.

Today I would not even be considered for that common laborer’s job, somebody willing to work for less (or under the table has that job today).

The dirty little secret with minimum wage is that a lot of unions have in their contracts that they must get so much more then minimum wage so they lobby to get the minimum wage raised so their members get a raise (and there is more money to support politicians).