Covered by AI benchmarks. Nobody has yet made a benchmark for how good LLMs are at taking drive-thru orders, even though there are LLMs doing that.

Restaurant quality is strongly associated with the quality of the wait staff.

Grabbing food handed to you through a window at a drive through is already very highly automated. But also has the most price pressure.

> A few places have been switching to using those robots on wheels to run food to tables.

Is this not just a gimmick? You still need people on hand to take over if the robot has an issue, I don't see how it would reduce labour costs.

I not think people count robots are AI. Unless they're intelligent robots.

Nobody wants that shit other than a few tech people.

Krispy Kreme has started using AI to take orders and it's awful. Terrible. Always gets everything wrong and you have to correct it. I think their phone system is AI too now. Madness.