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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

Posted on 12/22/2022 9:50:29 AM PST by DFG

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To: DFG

My opinion is irrelevant. It is the coming way of fast food, period. The higher the minimum wage the faster it will happen.

Next up, Carl’s Jr Big Ass Fries.


61 posted on 12/22/2022 10:18:31 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: ConservativeInPA
It frees labor to do something meaningful elsewhere

Such as?

62 posted on 12/22/2022 10:20:15 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bayan

Not to mention electric cars.


63 posted on 12/22/2022 10:20:57 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: algore

What moon?


64 posted on 12/22/2022 10:21:35 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: dfwgator

Like watching tictoc videos.


65 posted on 12/22/2022 10:22:31 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: DFG

McD’s can do what it wants. This family and household has STOPPED going to McD. We pay cash at counter AND WE WON’T PAY 20% MORE THAN customers using their app.

Bye Bye


66 posted on 12/22/2022 10:22:49 AM PST by George from New England
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To: freedumb2003

“Now with more....*Molecules*!”


67 posted on 12/22/2022 10:23:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DFG

So, the first McD’s that fulfills an order accurately and with the correct accoutrements and even with more than 1 napkin?


68 posted on 12/22/2022 10:25:11 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: dfwgator

>>“Now with more....*Molecules*!”<<

It’s got electrolytes!


69 posted on 12/22/2022 10:32:31 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: DFG

I have not been in one of those places in years now.

If I wanna eat slop, I will go to a pig farm.

Lots of good small family run places to go to...at least around here.


70 posted on 12/22/2022 10:32:34 AM PST by crz
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To: Red Badger

Got a Carls Jr around there?

Way better and they actually use beef and not half soy meal in the meat.


71 posted on 12/22/2022 10:35:42 AM PST by crz
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To: crz

Nope.
We had a Hardee’s but it closed at the start of the pandemic and never reopened.


72 posted on 12/22/2022 10:37:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DFG
So, the Automat is back?

-PJ

73 posted on 12/22/2022 10:41:29 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: DFG

If it can be programmed to leave you standing at the counter for 10 minutes with its back turned, nobody will notice the difference


74 posted on 12/22/2022 10:47:35 AM PST by txeagle
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To: Red Badger

Like yourself..I suspect, I avoid those places as much as possible.

In this small community, there is a couple nice little local run places. I got their numbers and If in a hurry, I call in my order for pick up.

Does not mean that is what you should do, but just an idea.

I feel that I sooner like to see my money go to a local and the local workers at those places instead of some GD corporation that gives a rats ass about a person.


75 posted on 12/22/2022 10:52:42 AM PST by crz
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To: Red Badger

Big macs were/are always a ripoff.

They are just 2 regular hamburger patties with 3 bread slices. The bread fills you up.

A quarter pounder has more meat in it than the big mac.


76 posted on 12/22/2022 10:55:54 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DFG

That will eliminate the problem of not being able to understand the one who takes your order.
Also, it will put off some old folks, and they will go somewhere else.


77 posted on 12/22/2022 10:57:40 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media not worth camel spit. My pronouns: Who, What, I Don't Know.)
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To: crz

There aren’t many Mom & Pop burger joints around here, just one that I know of:

https://www.restaurantji.com/fl/fort-walton-beach/tops-choice-hamburgers-/

We eat there usually, but they close at 7pm.............


78 posted on 12/22/2022 10:57:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DFG

I think it’s great.

I’ve long said we should be funding the advancement of robotics in the US. We should raise import tariffs to both protect US industries that haven’t offshored, but to bring production back.

And we should automate as much as possible. That way we not only own the production, but the automation as well.

If we don’t China will own both the production and automation and then we are screwed.


79 posted on 12/22/2022 11:03:23 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: shadowlands1960
...a hamburger fries and a shake for 99 cents.

You were getting ripped off. When I worked at McDonald's in the early 70s, a hamburger, regular fries, and shake were 70 cents total. That was in Oregon, so no sales tax either.

80 posted on 12/22/2022 11:06:52 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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