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Re:Arcade City: Decentralized, Blockchain-Based Answer to Uber by smackfu on Thursday January 21, 2016 @12:40PM (#10946831)
One thing they do now is put the drive-in order-taker off-site at a call center.

I guess not so recent, considering this article is from 2006: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/11fast.html?pag...

Re:Arcade City: Decentralized, Blockchain-Based Answer to Uber by ascagnel_ on Thursday January 21, 2016 @12:53PM (#10946925)
This could be something worth fully automating -- they have a limited number of options on the menu, and a less-limited but still defined number of permutations on those options. That problem space may be small enough for converting text-to-speech. The downside is that you'd still have to have someone on-call to try to rework any order statements the system has a low reliability score on.
Re:Arcade City: Decentralized, Blockchain-Based Answer to Uber by GFischer on Thursday January 21, 2016 @01:05PM (#10947014)
I don't understand why they don't have an app yet for ordering (at the drive-in and maybe delivery too).

The combination of app-based ordering and drive-through delivery is one I strongly believe to be underutilized.