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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by paulgb on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:05PM (#17517614)
I find it interesting that much more automated fast food actually did exist for a long period of time and fell out of favor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by gmiller123456 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:32PM (#17517856)
That looks like it's more about serving the food automatically rather than ordering it. With the kiosk, the food is still served the same way, but the ordering involves less people.

I can see the automat process being less desirable because there's an unknown, and obviously longer time between when the food is prepared vs when it is served. With the kiosks the food is still served pretty much immediately after it's prepared.