Any McDonald's stores worldwide are eligible to resolve this market. However, mere Flimsy evidence would not resolve this, nor would trials and experiments because McDonald's does a lot of testing and experiments, and most of them never become official.
As AI voice recognition gets great, McDonald's would probably integrate this into their stores, leading to further displacement of their staff.
So the question is now, will they expand the Ft. Worth model to any other locations in the world next year.
The store opened in late ‘22, and I’ve yet to see any evidence that anyone else has adopted the humanless model in ‘23
There are no employees at the counter, so patrons can only order via touchscreens.
but does not say anything about voice orders
@firstuserhere Good point, I think we’re actually talking about Chicago then, which has “voice-ordering technology at the drive-thrus of 10 Chicago restaurants”
Resolves YES back in 2022
McDonald’s opened its first automated restaurant, with machines handling everything from taking orders to delivering the food – and dividing opinions everywhere.
McDonald's unveils first automated location, social media worried it will cut 'millions' of jobs
@mattyb i think that location was specifically for testing their automated restaurant ideas and not an actual mcDonald's store. Will check.