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12/15/2023
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By Ethan Huff
More layoffs coming to McDonald’s as fast food giant embraces Google’s AI for online ordering
McDonald’s is going human-less in an effort to keep its top executives handsomely paid and its lower-level store employees, well, obsolete. In a recent press release, McDonald’s announced a new partnership with Google that will utilize the search engine giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology at McDonald’s franchise stores. With self-serve kiosks already plastered inside McDonald’s […]
11/29/2023
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By Zoey Sky
CHICKEN SANDWICH AIR DROP: Chick-fil-A launches drone deliveries in Florida
One Chick-fil-A location in Tampa, Florida, has recently launched a pilot program that uses delivery drones. While the idea seems novel and convenient, is it something workers at the fast food restaurant chain should worry about? Will the drones eventually replace all human delivery drivers? Stores in Valrico, Florida can send orders using drones Chick-fil-A announced […]
09/19/2023
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By Ethan Huff
California passes new law establishing fast-food minimum wage of $20/hour, McDonald’s to spend $250,000 more per restaurant per year
The California legislature just passed a new bill to require all major fast-food chains throughout the state to pay their employees at least $20 per hour – and McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast-food chain with 40,100 stores worldwide, is really angry about it. The passage of Assembly Bill 1228, which is now on its way […]
07/17/2023
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By Kevin Hughes
Chipotle Mexican Grill to test Autocado robot that can prepare guacamole faster than humans (and doesn’t complain)
To deal with the labor shortage, Chipotle Mexican Grill will be testing a new robot that can cut, core and peel avocados used in its guacamole faster than human employees. The robot, known as Autocado, made in collaboration with California-based robotics startup Vebu Labs, can allegedly cut in half the almost 50-minute preparation time to […]
05/12/2023
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By Ethan Huff
Fast-food employees already being replaced by AI chatbots
Corporations are desperate to shed their human employees in order to replace them with unpaid AI robots whose job it will be to take people’s orders at the fast-food drive-thru. The Ohio-based Wendy’s chain is piloting a program at a corporate-owned location in Columbus that does just this: replace fast-food order-taking employees with an artificial […]
01/03/2023
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By Roy Green
First fully automated McDonald’s outlet creeps out customers
There are 13,266 McDonald’s stores in the United States as of this writing, but one in Fort Worth, Texas stands out. It is the first fully automated outlet of the giant fast-food chain. The customer can go in, order the food, get the meal and pay the bill without human interaction. Of course, the food […]
11/11/2022
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By Ethan Huff
KFC in Germany apologizes for promoting fried chicken special in “commemoration of Kristallnacht” on anniversary of 1938 Nazi pogrom that massacred Jews
In what the company is now blaming on a “technical error,” the KFC fast-food chain in Germany blasted a promotional ad to customers’ smartphones urging them to celebrate the 1938 Nazi pogrom by “treat[ing] themselves” to fried chicken and cheese. On the 84th anniversary of the Reichspogromnacht, also known as Kristallnacht or “The Night of […]
06/16/2018
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By Ralph Flores
Meet the new automated barista that can make 120 cups of coffee an hour
People who line up for their early morning coffee may soon be seeing a drastic change in their routine change with the arrival of the baristas at Cafe X. Of course, that doesn’t mean you won’t get your coffee – only, those from Cafe X can make it under two minutes. They’re also robot arms. […]
02/15/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Your barista is being replaced by a robot, already in use in Japan
Meet Sawyer, the barista at the newest cafe in Japan. “He” can brew and serve hot coffee with just one hand. Oh, and “he’s” also a robot, according to the Daily Mail article covering “his” debut. Sawyer is the name of the the robot barista at the Henna Cafe in Shibuya, the popular downtown business […]
01/23/2018
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By David Williams
Rising minimum wage translates to fewer low-level jobs and more robots in the fast food industry
Sometimes the best solution to a problem ends up being the one you’re trying to avoid the most. A classic example of this is now becoming an issue in the fast food industry, where fast food companies may soon be made to choose between keeping their army of paid employees or replacing them entirely with […]
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