McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs

Re:McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in ... by tracker1 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:36PM (#20946824)

Exactly.. if you don't say that part, they'll usually remove the cheese too. Similar on experimenting on how to order. "Diet Dr. Pepper" is another hard one, often you will get regular, or diet coke.

The dipping cup ranch, for those curious is because the ranch dressing has a lot of added sugar/carbs and the dipping cups are like 1.5g each. Severely diabetic and nearly 0 carb has been the only effective way to manage it well.

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Re:McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:47PM (#20947356)

I worked McDonald’s drive thru as a kid and plain cheese burger meant bun cheese and meat. They even had a key for it on the POS, it was completely standardized.

Of course, it’s always possible some new employee would mess it up, or anything on your order actually. With turn over so high, there was no shortage of such errors.

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Re:McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in ... by tracker1 on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:05AM (#20960406)

I worked at a couple different McD's in my teens, was an opening manager at one for over a year at 19. Never underestimate nature's ability to build a better idiot.

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