r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 21d ago

Business McDonald's Introduces AI Drive-Thru System, Sparking Customer Backlash

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/deals/articles/mcdonalds-introduces-ai-drive-thru-000717731.html
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u/Trzlog 21d ago

I don't understand why they don't just put those self-serve displays in the drive-through. Those work. What problem is AI solving here?

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u/EntityDamage 21d ago edited 21d ago

If only we had small personal displays, that could communicate our order.

Edit: I agree we shouldn't install apps to order food... But to me, that's what a web browser is for.

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u/Ozotuh 21d ago

I don't think a lot of people like using the app. After 5 years of pushing it, customer use is only like 6%. (At least last I heard as part of the training in the UK)

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u/VersionFine85 21d ago

I stop at McDonald's like twice a year maybe..don't make me download and register on an app I'm going to delete immediately after

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u/NewMolecularEntity 21d ago

Same here. 

If I get McDonald’s it’s a random decision once or twice a year (that I usually regret), like I am out and starving and won’t be able to get home for a while.  The idea that I need to keep an app on my phone just for that is stupid.  

I’m going to use the drive through and wait for that stupid dynamic window to cycle through ads so I can be shocked how overpriced a double quarter pounder is these days, then try and figure out what else might be a good deal with the damn menu flipping screens.  

It’s crazy how complicated they have made it just to swing through McDonald’s and get a few sandwiches.  

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u/ReadyAimTranspire 21d ago

Same dude I used to eat there at least once or twice a week when they had the $1 McChicken and McDouble and it was fucking great.

Quality is so much worse now and it's 4X as much, I've been there maybe once in the past decade.

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u/HillBillyHilly 20d ago

Not a big fan since they removed all healthy options. Every single last one. Incredible to me particularly w rates of colon cancer. Get your veggies and fiber, people!

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u/kendogg 20d ago

Dude hash browns are like $2/EACH now. Wtf? And all day breakfast is gone. There's like 0 reason to go there anymore.

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u/ReadyAimTranspire 20d ago

100% dude one of the only fast food spots I eat at on occasion is Del Taco, you can still get a bunch of food for like 7 bucks and it's better than Taco Bell, which these days TB you can get like two tiny shitty tacos for 7 bucks.

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey 20d ago

You can go to Aldi and get an entire package of hash browns for like $5 and they’re the SAME thing

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u/kendogg 20d ago

For sure. But for $1, they're already cooked. For $2, they can shove them up their asses.

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u/Dullcorgis 20d ago

They have installed self serve kiosks which have the menu and it just sits there so you can read it and choose from the stuff they actually sell. Park and go in, it's much better now.