Fast Food Restaurants Replacing Human Employees With Robots
Placing an order at your favorite fast food restaurant is about to change forever. Instead of trying to get the attention of that pimple faced teenager who chews gum and talks on their iPhone, we will soon be able to place our orders with a touch screen robot, avoiding human interaction all together.
Jack-In-The-Box has rolled out the first of such machines in a Washington state restaurant. Customers can order and pay from a machine, pictured at right.
Coca Cola is doing their part to automate the fountain drink side of restaurants by introducing touch screen Coca Cola Freestyle machines. Instead of offering less than 10 flavors of beverages like a traditional fountain dispenser, Freestyle can offer over 150 flavors on the spot using similar sized machines featuring new technology. The new technology uses small cartridges instead of heavy and messy boxes of syrup that have been the nightmare of employees for years.
Coca Cola promises the new Freestyle machines will lead to flavors never before released in the U.S., like Raspberry Coca Cola, Peach Fanta, plus flavored waters, teas, and sparkling beverages. Video is below.
If they can get the hamburger cooking robots straightened out, plus iron out the kinks in the robotic chicken farmers and slaughterhouse droids, we won't need any dirty human hands touching our food from conception to mouth.
Is this a good thing, replacing humans with robots? Or is it just another step towards our Skynet masters vaporizing us?
1 comments:
As far as fast food joints go, I say the less human interaction the better. I don't eat fast food anymore but still retain traumatic memories of the rude, sleazy kids who worked in them. (And whatever happened to the health code rule requiring hair nets?) I stop in a gas station occasionally which is connected to a MacDonald's and shudder whenever I glance inside. There never was much interaction to begin with. I think folks will be relieved they can just place an order for such healthy meals on an ATM machine. Oh, and at least a machine won't evict a 6-month-old baby for not wearing shoes. The young manager threatened to call the cops if the baby didn't leave, with mother of course. No shoes, no shirt, no service, no shit. Burger King likes it their way.
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