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McDonald's hires 7,000 touch-screen cashiers

"Welcome to McDonald's. My name is HAL 9000. May I take your order?"

McDonalds recently went on a hiring binge in the U.S., adding 62,000 employees to its roster. The hiring picture doesn't look quite so rosy for Europe, where the fast food chain is drafting 7,000 touch-screen kiosks to handle cashiering duties.

The move is designed to boost efficiency and make ordering more convenient for customers. In an interview with the Financial Times, McDonald's Europe President Steve Easterbrook notes that the new system will also open up a goldmine of data. McDonald's could potentially track every BigMac, McNugget, and large shake you order. A calorie account tally at the end of the year could be a real shocker.

The touch screens will only accept debit or credit cards, adding to the slow death knell of cash and coins. This all goes along with an overall revamp of McDonald's restaurants worldwide aimed at projecting a modern image as opposed to the old-fashioned golden arches with a slightly creepy (to my taste anyway) clown guy hanging around the french fries.

This puts McDonald's one step closer to opening up its first Alphaville location. At least our new computer overlords will be nice enough to serve us a Filet-o-Fish. Maybe they'll even throw in an iPad with the Happy Meal one of these days.


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[Llcoolbay]

Basic income for eveyone 2075

Of course they wont take my job I do IT

 

[beenz]

Oh no! A coffee machine

We're fukked

you're obviously missing the bigger picture. they are testing it out with the coffee kiosk. if that goes well, you seriously don't think they roll out the same type of kiosk to replace the regular cashiers????

 

[Typical Knicks Fan]

We will all be living like those fat asses in Wall-E in no time. Everyone will get a basic income because most jobs will be automated.

 

[b_low_brown]

you're obviously missing the bigger picture. they are testing it out with the coffee kiosk. if that goes well, you seriously don't think they roll out the same type of kiosk to replace the regular cashiers????

They're already doing that. If you're looking for a career in fast food then you were screwed before the tech got involved.

 

[b_low_brown]

We will all be living like those fat asses in Wall-E in no time. Everyone will get a basic income because most jobs will be automated.

Yeah but Not in our lifetimes

We'll have nothing to do but leisure activities and art, there will probably be a 1 child rule imposed worldwide as well

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

In n out is cheap, fast food. Same exact model.

But it's not...and is nowhere near the same exact model.

In N Out is a privately owned regional specialty chain... it just happens to serve burgers and fries.

compare a publicly owned company who's one of the largest buyers of produce on the planet to a regional burger chain brehs.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

The only reason fast food works is because of cheap labor.
It's a reason why it's most people first job.

It's not because of cheap labor.

fast food works, cause the assembly line works....cheap labor is a byproduct of that.

at it's root, fast food works because of efficiency.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

just to put things into perspective brehs.

There are a grand total of 310 In N Out locations..... there are 129 McDonalds locations in the city of Los Angeles alone.