Will an 'AI Makeover' Help McDonald's? (msn.com) 99
"McDonald's is giving its 43,000 restaurants a technology makeover," reports the Wall Street Journal, including AI-enabled drive-throughs and AI-powered tools for managers — as well as internet-connected kitchen equipment.
"Technology solutions will alleviate the stress...." says McDonald's CIO Brian Rice. McDonald's tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants — giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-site... a faster, cheaper option than sending data to the cloud, especially in more far-flung locations with less reliable cloud connections, said Rice... Edge computing will enable applications like predicting when kitchen equipment — such as fryers and its notorious McFlurry ice cream machines — is likely to break down, Rice said. The burger chain said its suppliers have begun installing sensors on kitchen equipment that will feed data to the edge computing system and give franchisees a "real-time" view into how their restaurants are operating. AI can then analyze that data for early signs of a maintenance problem.
McDonald's is also exploring the use of computer vision, the form of AI behind facial recognition, in store-mounted cameras to determine whether orders are accurate before they're handed to customers, he said. "If we can proactively address those issues before they occur, that's going to mean smoother operations in the future," Rice added...
Additionally, the ability to tap edge computing will power voice AI at the drive-through, a capability McDonald's is also working with Google's cloud-computing arm to explore, Rice said. The company has been experimenting with voice-activated drive-throughs and robotic deep fryers since 2019, and ended its partnership with International Business Machines to test automated order-taking at the drive-through in 2024.
Edge computing will also help McDonald's restaurant managers oversee their in-store operations. The burger giant is looking to create a "generative AI virtual manager," Rice said, which handles administrative tasks such as shift scheduling on managers' behalf. Fast-food giant Yum Brands' Pizza Hut and Taco Bell have explored similar capabilities.
"Technology solutions will alleviate the stress...." says McDonald's CIO Brian Rice. McDonald's tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants — giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-site... a faster, cheaper option than sending data to the cloud, especially in more far-flung locations with less reliable cloud connections, said Rice... Edge computing will enable applications like predicting when kitchen equipment — such as fryers and its notorious McFlurry ice cream machines — is likely to break down, Rice said. The burger chain said its suppliers have begun installing sensors on kitchen equipment that will feed data to the edge computing system and give franchisees a "real-time" view into how their restaurants are operating. AI can then analyze that data for early signs of a maintenance problem.
McDonald's is also exploring the use of computer vision, the form of AI behind facial recognition, in store-mounted cameras to determine whether orders are accurate before they're handed to customers, he said. "If we can proactively address those issues before they occur, that's going to mean smoother operations in the future," Rice added...
Additionally, the ability to tap edge computing will power voice AI at the drive-through, a capability McDonald's is also working with Google's cloud-computing arm to explore, Rice said. The company has been experimenting with voice-activated drive-throughs and robotic deep fryers since 2019, and ended its partnership with International Business Machines to test automated order-taking at the drive-through in 2024.
Edge computing will also help McDonald's restaurant managers oversee their in-store operations. The burger giant is looking to create a "generative AI virtual manager," Rice said, which handles administrative tasks such as shift scheduling on managers' behalf. Fast-food giant Yum Brands' Pizza Hut and Taco Bell have explored similar capabilities.
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None of it will improve the end product. (Score:5, Insightful)
None of it will improve the end product.
It's like they load the ingredients in a shotgun, shoot it at the bun, wrap it and send it. It's like barf on a bun, honestly.
None of this will make a difference to how they slap your Egg Mc Dreck together.
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It's like they load the ingredients in a shotgun, shoot it at the bun, wrap it and send it. It's like barf on a bun, honestly.
You mean like this [youtube.com]?
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load the ingredients in a shotgun, shoot it at the bun, wrap it and send it.
Patton Oswalt - KFC Famous Bowls [youtube.com]
“America has spoken. Pile my food in a fucking bowl like I’m a dog.”
Re:None of it will improve the end product. (Score:4, Funny)
Easier solution (Score:2, Interesting)
Pay workers more. You pay bottom tier labor you’re gonna get bottom tier quality. No I don’t want to hear how you plowed fields for a nickel an hour either grandpa. It’s 2025 and eggs are $6 a dozen. $15 an hour won”t even get you very far. I’m looking at replacing my rusted out car and auto loan interest rates have doubled the last three years. Nobody can afford anything.
Re:Easier solution (Score:5, Insightful)
Fast food prices are already approaching lower end sit-down restaurant prices. People won't pay the same for a Big Mac as they do for a real(ish) meal at Denny's, even when that price reflects what it actually costs to make the food.
Which is to say, the entire fast food business model is dependent on subsistence wages, where employees have to have subsidies to survive. Be it free medical insurance (paid for by the taxpayer), tax refunds on money they never paid in (paid for by taxpayers), or sixteen people living in a one bedroom apartment to afford the rent (which causes so much stress the taxpayers pay for that free medical care), it's all subsidies pay for by someone else to protect the franchise's profits.
All to keep that crappy, dried out hamburger on the $1 menu.
Remember that the next time you are tempted to go through a drive through. You're a big part of the problem, because you want food for less than it costs to make.
Re:Easier solution (Score:4, Informative)
People won't pay the same for a Big Mac as they do for a real(ish) meal at Denny's, even when that price reflects what it actually costs to make the food.
It doesn't, so what does that have to do with anything? The Denny's burger has more of everything and their model doesn't have as much volume, so they have more overhead per product.
the entire fast food business model is dependent on subsistence wages
Burger flippers in California get paid $20+ an hour. At In-N-Out they're making $25. This has scarcely affected P&L because of volume. They continue to be profitable businesses. The business model is in no way dependent on subsistence wages, those increase profits by barely single-digit percentages and are not at all necessary.
Re:Easier solution (Score:5, Informative)
Which is to say, the entire fast food business model is dependent on subsistence wages, where employees have to have subsidies to survive. Be it free medical insurance (paid for by the taxpayer), tax refunds on money they never paid in (paid for by taxpayers), or sixteen people living in a one bedroom apartment to afford the rent (which causes so much stress the taxpayers pay for that free medical care), it's all subsidies pay for by someone else to protect the franchise's profits.
All to keep that crappy, dried out hamburger on the $1 menu.
Remember that the next time you are tempted to go through a drive through. You're a big part of the problem, because you want food for less than it costs to make.
Bullshit. It's greed. McDonald's in Denmark starts people at $22 an hour and their prices are on parity with the USA. https://www.yahoo.com/news/fac... [yahoo.com]
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"Subsistence wages" implies that workers at McDonald's expect to earn their entire living at McDonald's. Most employees are students trying to earn some extra cash, or adults wanting to supplement their income. If you're working at McDonald's hoping to make a good living, you're doing it wrong. There are plenty of better-paying options for people who don't have any specific high-paying skills.
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Let's just say that you believe, as I infer but could be wrong about, that everyone who isn't qualified to do anything more complicated than flip burgers or sling fries is a clown. Clowns still gotta eat. No business should be allowed to profit from paying less than a living wage.
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There are some very smart people who work at fast food jobs. But they aren't doing it to earn a living. They are doing it to earn some extra money, or to get a foothold in the employment ladder. My first job at 16 was at Hardee's, making minimum wage, which was then $3.35 an hour. I never expected to live on it, it was a stepping stone. I lived with my parents, like most 16-year-olds. That job helped me learn how to work. In those days, nobody was trying to actually make a career of working at Hardee's, or
Re:Easier solution (Score:4, Insightful)
It makes no sense to insist that every kind of employer must pay a "living wage." For example, I hire a mowing crew to mow my lawn once a week. Should I pay them a living wage for that one hour a week?
You should pay them at a rate such that if they were working full time, they would be earning a living wage. That's what a living wage means.
Fast food work is the kind of work that is usually one part of a person's income, not the whole thing.
"Usually"
Nearly a third of minimum wage earners are raising children. Why do you want them to need to be on public assistance programs?
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I pay my mowing crew the rate that we agreed upon. It's not my problem to calculate and decide whether that rate is enough for them to "live on." If they don't agree to the rate of pay, they shouldn't offer to do the work for that rate.
And what is "enough to live on" anyway? Enough to afford an apartment with a roommate or partner? (That's probably fine for a young person, it's working for my son's 23-year-old fiancée.) Enough to afford a mortgage? Enough for a nice house in the suburbs? Everybody's de
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What you're suggesting is that McDonald's should *be* an "assistance program."
What I'm outright stating is that no employer should have the right to pay less than a living wage, because when coupled with our laws which criminalize indigence that is the same percentage slavery as it is a percentage below that wage. The violence in the system is performed by people who are paid to do it on your behalf, and with your tax money.
We could argue about definitions of a living wage and what that should entail, but that's a dumb waste of time because we can both understand some reasonable conc
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The devil is always in the details. You speak of "living wage" as if that were an obvious number. It's anything but obvious, and it differs from person to person, from region to region. If you punt on that question, you've got no argument, because you are arguing for a hypothetical concept. To mandate a living wage, you have to be able to define what a living wage is.
How has rent control worked for Los Angeles and New York? Has it made those places affordable? One city that *is* affordable, is Houston, a pl
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We do have a public health system in the US, in the form of Community Health Centers. Nobody *wants* to get their healthcare at these places
Those are half assed, and vanishing. Community clinics and hospitals are disappearing. The community hospital I was born in has been closed for years. The one in the county I live in now is in the process of closing and leaving us with only a catholic hospital which refuses to perform life-saving operations because they think their book tells them not to when it absolutely does not, and as health professionals they should really read more than one book anyway.
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To mandate a living wage, you have to be able to define what a living wage is.
Yes, the government does (or did?) this by state, by city, and by statistical area (e.g., "Houston"). It is (was?) used in a number of other calculations, such as eligibility for SNAP and other government benefit programs, and for the % of people living under the poverty line calculation. It is based on a number of factors, but housing is near the top of the list. There is a simple calculator available here (https://universallivingwage.org/national-locality-wage-calculator/) that you can use to examine it.
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Oh, so you're suggesting that government-run healthcare is vulnerable to political influence and under-funding? I think you're making my point!
And I see you neatly avoided the rent control topic...and defining what "living wage" is. Seems you don't have answers for those.
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And I see you neatly avoided the rent control topic...and defining what "living wage" is. Seems you don't have answers for those.
I see you're still handwaving. Cry harder.
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You're the one complaining that the system is broken and the government must intervene. I think the system is working just fine. Cry harder.
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So, your definition of "living wage" is...the Federal poverty line. Good, we're making headway, that's a definition.
In Houston, that line is $15,000 per year for an individual. If that is the definition, then a person working full time at minimum wage, will make about that much money. Are you going to stand by that definition?
You did not accurately portray my reason for saying businesses shouldn't have to pay a living wage. It's not because of the portion of a person's livelihood that might be covered by ot
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Your problem is caused by the imbalance between worker salary and company profits. Problem is that you can not solve it by paying more to the workers, because that will just make robots look more affordable. You can delay the problem by lowering the taxes on work and increasing the tax on companies, but that requires global forced co-operation. In the long run we need government owned factories that provide free food and stuff for the people. That way government and the people get directly the benefits from
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No, we should not all be slaves to the government.
Re: Easier solution (Score:1)
Perhaps others have had this experience. Strip of fast food joints. McDonaldâ(TM)s, Carls Jr, others are empty. Line around the block for In N Outâ¦
And In N Out is price competitive if not cheaper. That line around the block moves quickly. Product is better. Service betterâ¦even w/out kiosks. Place is cleaner inside in out.
tldr; McDonalds and the like is run on a least common denominator basis. Money goes to mgmt , shareholders, consultants, everything but the product. It
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That argument would make sense, if the data backed it up. But the reality is that in restaurants where workers *are* paid more, they still get takeout orders wrong a high percentage of the time. Same for Door Dash and Uber Eats. One reason I always go inside to pick up my to-go order, instead of drive thru, is that going inside makes it easier to check the order for accuracy. And I find errors regularly in every kind of restaurant, at every pay grade.
Integration (Score:3)
Android Auto in your robotaxi will be in communication with the Google AI in restaurants and let them know you are coming well ahead of time. The agents already know what food you like, so you can just say you want 'the usual'. The car slowly drives past the takeout window and your order will arrive down a chute, payment made through Google Wallet. The people who used to work there will be sitting on sheets of cardboard out on the periphery, hoping you will throw them some scraps.
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The people who used to work there will be sitting on sheets of cardboard out on the periphery, hoping you will throw them some scraps.
Oh come on, that's bullshit!
Those people will have already been dragged off of the property by robot dogs, and their cardboard confiscated.
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There's an actual person involved when you order? How quaint.
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>> working the nursing homes, caring for old people
Nice sentiment, if only that were true. I think we are going to see some android helpers do that work in the near future. They'll help you stay hygienic, get you dressed, feed you if necessary.
Big promises (Score:4, Interesting)
Off of a lot of tech that doesn't have a ton of successful implementation.
I think back to when I was doing digital signage early last decade and when transparent LCD was hitting the market and ever couple weeks we would get a call about "can you make freezer doors with displays in them"? and on paper it seems good, like if I was a salesman I could go into a retail chain and make a compelling pitch:
You can sell ad dollars on the displays, it's attention getting, customer don't have to open the doors to see what's inside, prices can be adjusted quickly and dynamically, the computer vision system will detect what's on the shelves etc etc. Of course I knew this wasn't as rosy as would be presented.
Suffice it to say we never got the contract but one company got that huge Walgreens contract and as expected it's been a shitshow [gizmodo.com] because as any of you here can surmise just off your own experience a deployment of that many pieces of tech in that manner will becomes a quagmire. A half working piece of tech is often worse than just not having it at all.
When I read this many buzzwords all with so many positives I think of the salesperson who sold all this tech to McDonalds and now the poor engineers who have to implement it when more than likely none of it is working to the potential it was sold. Maybe I am too cynical and will be proven wrong but my bet is maybe 1 or two of these features end up being implemented for more than 1 year before the franchises complain and rip it out.
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A half working piece of tech is often worse than just not having it at all.
It's worse than that because even if it is working, it defeats the purpose of why the window is there. To see what the hell is in the fridge or freezer so one can buy it. Showing a screen of what's not in there just makes the customers think it's an empty case and walk way.
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For real and I would be curious if there was any data on increased power usage because people don't believe the display so they open the doors even more than when it was just glass, I have to believe that was a side effect
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Maybe I am too cynical and will be proven wrong but my bet is maybe 1 or two of these features end up being implemented for more than 1 year before the franchises complain and rip it out.
Your cynicism is half-right... I predict that four or five fast-food companies will attempt to roll out an "AI-based order-taker" of some sort, and most of those initiatives will fail quickly due to one hilarious failure-mode or another... however, if one company gets it to work reliably, that company will gain a huge pricing/efficiency advantage over its competition, because now they can lay off half their staff (read: eliminate 25% of their costs) and still sell the same amount of product; and if that ha
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You are right about that, I only really have an anecdote in response that a local fast place near me already has/had a non-human order taker at the drive through, this was like a year and a half ago and it did work fairly well for me but returning a couple months later and it was a human back on the vox. I shoulda asked but I had to wonder if it was an inaccuracy of the system or did customers just complain about not having a person on the other end even if it is in fact more accurate , customers can be an
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>I predict that four or five fast-food companies will attempt to roll out an "AI-based order-taker" of some sort,
Why? They are already starting to have kiosks where you enter your own order, and either wait or have a seat with a number. Then they bring it to you. So they have already eliminated the order takers.
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Why? They are already starting to have kiosks where you enter your own order, and either wait or have a seat with a number. Then they bring it to you. So they have already eliminated the order takers.
Yes, that totally works -- for the people who want to deal with an app. The people who want to order via voice conversation, OTOH, will ignore the kiosk and stand in line at the register/drive-through anyway, and that currently requires a human being's time to deal with. The business manager's holy grail would be to provide that same interaction without having to pay anyone.
(Note that "voice conversation" requires not only voice-recognition but also intelligent/useful responses to the customer's free-form
McFlurry ice cream machines are build to need ser (Score:2)
McFlurry ice cream machines are build to need service from only an Taylor tech that can cost about $350 for every 15 minutes
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Yup. There've been IIRC at least 2 expose articles about those things. They're designed to break. What no one seems to ask is why McDonalds don't just change their supplier as its clearly hitting their bottom line.
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It squeezes the Franchisee, not McDonalds Corp. As far as I can tell, most Franchisees are squeezed by their overlords. It is a game of distributing the risks and centralizing the profits. Apparently, most Franchisees are powerless to fight back against this kind of thing. The most successful Franchisees own multiple stores.
Look at your average retail space in the US (mostly strip malls), mostly a bunch of franchises with small investors risking a lot while their profit margin is largely dictated by contrac
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The franchisee is the one who takes the sales hit. Whatever percentage of that sale would have made it back to McDonald's corporate, is less than they are getting in kickbacks from the maintenance contractor. It's McDonald's and the maintenance contractor jointly fucking over the franchisees.
Presumably the rest of the contract is good enough that the franchisees just deal with not having ice cream.
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Yeah, the whole bit about "predicting when kitchen equipment will malfunction" struck me as disingenuous. The ice cream machines don't function because the company (via its contractor selection with kickbacks or whatever) doesn't want them to function. For the rest of the equipment, I've seen nothing to suggest an AI could keep a maintenance log better than I do.
Pizza Hut has gone downhill (Score:2)
We used to enjoy getting a large supreme pan pizza at our local place. For whatever reason we stopped buying them years ago and only recently started to purchase again every once in a while. What used to be a hot, crispy yet succulent pizza is now only middling crispy and slightly undercooked. They need to keep it in the oven another two minutes to get the cheese really gooey instead of semi-liquid blobs they have now.
If they're using AI for this, I don't want it.
Price cuts (Score:4, Insightful)
You can't have a burger fries and a drink costing $15 where the median hourly wage is something like 20 an hour.
What they need to be doing is pushing for policies that will help keep costs down but those same policies mean their CEO will have to pay slightly more in taxes. Hell the main goal right now of the people at the top seems to be to completely shift their tax burden onto us. That's quite a bit of money even though it's a small percentage of their incomes because their incomes are so high.
Of course when all our taxes double next year thanks to the national sales tax there's going to be less money spent at McDonald's but again the people at the very very top are going to make out very very well.
It's okay though, I'm a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire.
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The CEO and now chairman of McDonald’s was paid $19.2 million last year in salary, bonuses and stock, according to federal securities filings.
McDonald's annual gross profit for 2024 was $14.71B
They have 1.7 million employees.
Minimum pay is about $22,053 per year.
The total burger sales in a given year totals to approximately 2.5 billion.
CEO salary divided to all employees would be 19200000/1700000=11.29 dollars.
CEO salary divided to burgers would be 19200000/2500000000=0.00768 dollars
So you can not mak
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They don't have 1.7 million employees. The have about 150,000 and most of those work outside the US. Most everyone employed at a McDonald's works for a franchisee that rents space and buys supplies from corporate.
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Do you point that out because you think rsilvergun was proposing to give a salary bump to foreign employees of McDonalds and do nothing at all for 100,000+ Americans wearing that uniform in US outposts of the chain?
So the CEOs are mostly just footmen (Score:2)
So as a percentage of their income billionaires pay around 2 to 3% of their incomes in taxes. But because of how our economy is structured that ends up being about 2 trillion dollars a year. If you've been wondering why Trump keeps going on and on and on about saving 2 trillion a year that's why.
This is why I say the goal is a national sales tax. The goal is to shift their tax burden onto you. Look at whatever you pai
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I think you glossed over a line which shows where MOST of the employees should be getting their money:
>McDonald's annual gross profit for 2024 was $14.71B
WTH? Why did you not calculate that? Lets, see, of the ACTUAL 150,000 employees McDonalds has:
lets say a good profit of 4.7B,
$10,000,000,000/150,000 = $66,000.
Sounds good to me.
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IN fact, lets do this for all companies, and let the workers take the lions share home.
They will spend it, trickle down style and the rich will get a little more, and the rest will be spread back again amongst most of the people.
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Problem is McDonalds isn't a food or restaurant company but a real estate REIT that runs a food supply business on the side so its customers, the franchisees, can pay rent. It makes money by doing things like this and forcing then forcing the franchisees to buy them at a high markup. The McFlurry machine that's always broken is by design because they've cut side deals with Taylor to sell machines that break down, have the franchisees buy the maintenance contract that prevents them from fixing it, and th
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Launch a $10 Value Menu!
Joke aside, you're right, I ate the Five Guys last week and it was almost $20 for a burger + fries + soda. I don't know what providers can do about pricing, but I do know that prices have jumped ahead of income. If things don't change, we'll wind up in a stagflation cycle, and that will be a whole different level of hurt.
So to get prices down (Score:1)
That's longer term though but it is something you need to do something about. Short-term you need to do something about the droughts immediately. This means lots
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truck the water into Texas where the ranches are
What a brilliant plan to fight climate change!
You know they have access to seawater in Texas, where Texan ranches are located, and the water won't have to cross a mountain range, right? Let them make their own fucking water.
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First, Five Guys is not considered a fast food place. They are an upmarket place - you don't go to Five Guys expecting a cheap meal. They use better ingredients like fresh meat (not frozen)
Re:Price cuts (Score:4, Insightful)
They need to become more affordable. It is so crazy expensive to eat at a fast food restaurant now that even people struggling for time are just at the point where they skip meals.
Good. Since I've tasted a real burger in a real restaurant, I never want to eat a "burger" in a fast food any more.
I'd rather go starving a few times then eat the real thing.
Stress (Score:2)
Technology solutions will alleviate the stress....
Unless someone turns up the assembly line [wikipedia.org] speed. On the other hand, the McFlurry line [mcbroken.com] is probably pretty easy to work on.
people went to McDonalds for the cheap food (Score:3)
People went to McDonalds for the cheap, tasty food.. they lost business after price gouging on food and loosing focus on the basics- cheap, fast food! When the burgers now cost as much as a premium burger at other chains, but remains cardboard with a shadow of a lettuce leaf... the customers left.
They went the way of MBA's preaching year over year profit growth, and ever changing for sake of change.
Apparently, making a stable profit margin and just keeping market share is death for a business.
If they're thinking of putting AI compute at each of their restaurants, that's a huge financial cost + cost of operations (mntc, utilities, support, licensing, etc).. that's gonna require the restaurants to sell a hell of alot more nuggets, for alot more $ to offset that cost for minimal gain- sure, AI does the schedule... you still have a shift manager... they are still there, still getting paid... you are still paying for the salary PLUS the AI investment... still need to review the schedule, and ensure it works... this goes for everything... it just adds complexity and costs.
Ai to check if the order is correct? how about training and adding staff so workers aren't overwhelmed during peak...even if an Ai catches an error... it still needs to be redone at no gains to the restaurant- which means they won't re-do it. From personal experience, it's better for the customer to catch the mistake... friend is deathly allergic to tomato... went to a sit in restaurant, and the order was made incorrectly, and when she caught it.. they just removed the tomato slice and handed her the food back (she found the tomato juice/seeds still on the food after they removed the slice).. if she ate it, she would have ended up in the hospital... she needed to be there to ensure they remade the burger from scratch so it doesn't kill her. If an AI catches the tomato on a burger and tells the staff to remove it, they'll remove it... and it will go on to the person who might have an allergic reaction and suffer the consequences. So although mistakes suck... for all involved... not sure Ai is the solution for this particular problem that people think it is.
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McD's seems to be very gung-ho on the "tech" thing for the better part of a decade now. First with menus boards that show you a slideshow when you're just trying to read the menu, then the order kiosks, then with pushing everyone toward installing their app. I noticed ca. 2022 when I was working with a bunch of people who would frequently get McDonald's for lunch, they still seemed to be getting fair prices - but only via the app.
As they keep plowing forward with this BS, the contrast with a place like Chic
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from all the case studies done on CFA and why they are successful, it's because they are customer and food centric - high standards of training, not changing the menu and keeping things consistent and providing that service/value to the customer.
McD lost focus on what they are and what made them popular - they're the equivalent of the high tech store that starts to sell blenders and toasters alongside processors and SSDs - you know they're done for at that point.
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Thanks Marshall Brain (Score:4, Insightful)
https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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Guy seems to have a fascination with restrooms.
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Their problems won't be solved by tech
Simple test (Score:1)
I mean we'll see (Score:2)
Some McDonalds are so bad at orders it isn't worth going to them.
This doesn't need AI to solve it, it needs some level of effort on the part of the McDonalds. I doubt AI will be a magic ticket here, but hey, maybe I'll be impressed.
Because I don't like pickles, the two most common issues I run into are "Pickles are present or are even extra-pickled" and "someone picked a pickle off instead of not putting it on in the first place". The first is much more common than the second, and both spoil the meal. I
In a word, no. (Score:2)
The cheesiest franchise (Score:2)
...says, "Hey, let's get even cheesier!" Brilliant!
BUT THE FOOD (Score:2)
McDonald's serves 1/10 lb burgers.
I don't give a shit about their non-AI way to remove incompetent high-school juniors from taking that stupid order.
If they would only spend that money to provide reasonably SIZED and reasonably PRICED food and drink that would be great.
Fuck off, McDonald's. We don't even stop when we're hungry. That's how bad you suck. And now you'll replace idiots with "AI" (not a real thing) idiots.
Good for you.
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I know you're upset with the portion size, but have you considered Ozempic? It might be a more healthy way to control your urges than gorging on fast food.
AI won't make it healthy (Score:2)
Does it really require the cloud (Score:2)
Better (Score:4, Informative)
I stopped eating fast food about 20 years ago. Wow, do I feel better.
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No Humans Already (Score:2)
Dear Ronald McDonald (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
I ran a food stand at the local county fair for a public service club, and I had multiple repeat customers that afternoon because I cooked the food - simple county fair stuff: hamburgers, hotdogs, brats - the way they'd have done it. Food that was obviously not edible got tossed,
Oxymoron (Score:2)
McDonald's tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants - giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-site
Maybe cloud computing doesn't mean what I think it means any more.
Won't help (Score:2)
IDK about the American prices, but my problem with it is that it is too expensive for something that is barely food. Even If you just accept that it is an unhealthy snack and you feel like indulging in it, the value proposition isn't very good.
A large meal is even worse, because it just adds more of all the cheap crap, water with sugar and more fries.
With half an hour of work, I can cook someting myself that tastes better, has more meat and does not contain all the crap.
You need AI (Score:2)
Wife and I will get. Big Mac meals every couple months, when we don't feel like cooking. They are okay. But I can get a couple handmade hoagies that are super fresh that cost less.
Finally I can order rapping my order (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Hey AI, Where's the Beef ??? (Score:2)
Fast food is way too expensive (Score:1)
McDonalds and AI (Score:1)
No (Score:2)