Maybe. But is hard to compare since the cashier also picked together your meal.

The ordering part was way faster. Coming into an empty restaurant was way way faster.

Maybe an opportunity for LLM-powered AI agent with voice recognition on the automated kiosks. Can even ask it how its day has been.

Your AI will interact with the stores api eventually, solving the problem

Accelerando was a cautionary tale.

Why use a slower, lossy, error-prone input method rather than tap a screen a few times to make precise choices? This has been solved for over a decade.

there are queues at the kiosk now too. because people take much longer perusing the interactive menu then they would when there’s the pressure of a cashier in front of them