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McDonald's To Begin Equipping Stores with Self-Ordering Kiosks, 1000 Per Quarter, Until All Human Order-Takers Are Replaced by 2020
This doesn't just make economic sense. It makes customer-service sense, too. With the country no longer insisting or even urging a proficiency in English (even among native English speakers), the most frustrating part of any visit to McDonald's is the lengthy back-and-forth with an order-taker trying to get them to understand the words that have come out of your mouth.
It's easy enough just to push buttons. Double quarter pounder with cheese, Hold Pickles, Hold Bun. Not that difficult for customers to figure out. You don't have to be a genius to push big buttons that correspond with the food you want to buy. A tight labor market (Thanks, Trump!) plus the leftists' demands that even the most menial, unskilled labor positions be paid a minimum of $15 per hour makes this inevitable.The Fight for $15 has been proclaimed a success everywhere it brought about an increase in the minimum wage but, as almost anyone could have predicted, the end result is going to be more automation and, probably, fewer jobs. I'm saying "probably" fewer jobs because the official word from McDonald’s and other chains is that they aren’t necessarily cutting staff just reassigning them to other jobs in the restaurant. What jobs exactly? That's never been entirely clear. No doubt there will always be one person on hand to take orders but it could come down to just one person there to help people use the kiosks. As the industry leader, this move is likely to get any competitors who were still on the fence moving in the same direction. Already, Wendy's, Shake Shack, and Subway have suggested they are making similar moves.I imagine McDonald's will avoid immediate cuts to staff but will let the staffs attrit naturally without hiring replacements for the now-redundant order-takers.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Rick in SK at June 13, 2018 05:05 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Nascar at June 13, 2018 05:06 PM (7LY+6)
Oops. OT.
But, in the category of making the celebration of homosexual anal sex mandatory....
It's nice to see somebody fighting back, if only a bit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 05:06 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 13, 2018 05:07 PM (Y9uH4)
Posted by: Shep! at June 13, 2018 05:07 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 13, 2018 05:07 PM (99u1o)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:07 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 05:07 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Muad'dib at June 13, 2018 05:08 PM (pgBqa)
-fight for $15ers
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 13, 2018 05:08 PM (HtLSE)
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something snarky and sad about how this is sad because America's being defined by those libs who really always hated america (think sorkin's speech on that hbo show about how america sux is the best thing ever) has now defined america as great because it's really a formless mass of unidentified persons who happen to live on magic soil.
and don't you fucking dare require english literacy. or a voter ID
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 13, 2018 05:08 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Slow Gropin' Joe at June 13, 2018 05:08 PM (koNhm)
Posted by: JoeF. at June 13, 2018 05:08 PM (y8Foj)
This.
Turnover is high enough they won't have to lay anyone off...just not replace the ones that move on.
Haven't been to McDs in years. Won't be going back.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:09 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 13, 2018 05:09 PM (pvjTE)
I don't mean animatronic, I mean gleaming art deco metal, but with that Mickey D's uniform.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 13, 2018 05:09 PM (JxMDl)
Special orders don't upset us
Posted by: Kiosk Katey, Robosexual at June 13, 2018 05:09 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: FIFA at June 13, 2018 05:09 PM (suO/a)
Posted by: nip at June 13, 2018 05:09 PM (ECLaL)
Posted by: Non-learners at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Leo Getz at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: DaveA at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (1ISKN)
McDonald's announces Big Bulgogi Mac promotion
Free supersize for North Korean market
Anticipates demand, bigly
Posted by: Miklos Marketwatch at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (zCyNd)
Mo' kiosks, mo' money.
Posted by: sinalco at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (yODqO)
that pimply faced kid from the simpsons is quite the relic from a simpler time when America was composed of mostly 4th+ generation americans.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Weasel at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:10 PM (SzZnW)
It's like Starbucks workers not knowing what "medium" means.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (VgKNm)
Posted by: Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal !!!! at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (Co9e8)
If you do the fast food thing, expect less. Every has it been thus.
I'll stick with Lucky Wishbone (known as "The Bone") for chicken and Arctic Roadrunner for burgers and fries.
Mmmm... buttermilk dipped and deep fried chicken, real milkshakes, and Lord Baranof Burger FTW.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (7UW64)
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Like Aztec writing? How fitting!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (JxMDl)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (VgKNm)
It would have been quicker to zip over to the local Burger King.
Posted by: GuyfromNH at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (Gs5TH)
So I'll see them standing around doing nothing? I already do.
Posted by: wrg500 at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (Bdeb0)
she'll be in front of you at Krogers, paying with $100 bills and EFTs
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Kevin Williamson at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (xjiRE)
Posted by: Skip at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (pHfeF)
"Newer better Americans" will change it to Falafel House.
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 13, 2018 05:12 PM (99u1o)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:12 PM (7LY+6)
I hope they fail like Dick's.
Posted by: Under Fire at June 13, 2018 05:12 PM (r9UYA)
How's your coding or shale career coming Big Kev?
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:12 PM (SzZnW)
Fast food restaurants are already using apps for orders and they will just replicate that on site. Not just easier ordering, but also the ease of ordering more.
Existing staff will either focus on more custom orders faster, or additional higher value service.
Posted by: standfast24 at June 13, 2018 05:12 PM (OkVTN)
when I was a small boy, I could only work at the register because the fryer was too dangerous.
women and children hardest hit.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 13, 2018 05:12 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: wrg500 at June 13, 2018 05:12 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 13, 2018 05:12 PM (4e+hS)
Eh, their "new" 1/4 pounder was not bad on the road...but I make better when I am home.
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (9uM86)
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George Jetson was a button pusher. Are you saying he just lost his job?
Posted by: Kiosk Katey, Robosexual at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (+y/Ru)
The kiosks won't be better because many people are literally too stupid to learn how to use them and then other people will physically destroy them.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (4ErVI)
So Homer's come out of the closet? Tough on Marge. ;^)
I really don't understand why there should be Gay Pride Day, just as I don't think people should be proud that they're straight. if they were born way, what's the big deal? Seems to me here are many other things people could be proud about.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (fqUgw)
McD bulgogi burgers are already A Thing. Just not here, in SK.
Over there they're competing with Lotte burger, and I can't imagine how the latter stays in business. They're horrible.
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (HtLSE)
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American workers be all like "pay me" and shit.
actually, I think the biggest thing is working under the table goes hand and hand with "avoiding burdensome regulations altogether"
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Mawn Shanatee at June 13, 2018 05:14 PM (kjU7u)
Posted by: Weasel at June 13, 2018 05:14 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 05:14 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: Happy McDonald's Worker at June 13, 2018 05:14 PM (vDqXW)
Customer: I would like the 99-cent chicken chunks and a small Coke.
FJ: Yes sir, that will be 19 cheeseburger meals with Cokes. Your total will be $98.46. Please pull up to the second window.
Hilarity ensued, but not in the customer's car.
Posted by: Furious George at June 13, 2018 05:14 PM (9vQJW)
I took Lad and Pac10077 to King's Island two weeks ago...
I have NEVER seen "Straight Pride Day"...
have seen "Gay Days" there since 1986.
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (SzZnW)
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Plus, now, not only do their employees not need to know how to read, their customers don't either.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: dantesed at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (88xKn)
You played the silver ball?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM
From Soho down to Brighton
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (0tfLf)
You played the silver ball?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (7LY+6)
Well ...
Posted by: Pete Townsend at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: The Surly Illiterate Behind The Register at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (O5Q3r)
The kiosks will require a credit card. Not going to work well in low income areas.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (NLeU8)
I know what I want.
You know where the mic or the button is.
You've got the cash register.
Take my order and let's get this show on the road.
Instead, we're going to have:
*Beep* -- SELECTION DENIED --
*Boop* -- PLEASE TRY AGAIN --
*Blorp* -- para espanol, oprima el numero tres --
GAWDAMMITIJUSTWANTTWOCHEESBURGERS!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (BRvh1)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (4e+hS)
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Not many teens running the registers in the South.
The 35 year old hispanic mom quip above is dead on.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (VgKNm)
Posted by: Jen the original at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (NLeU
EBT.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 05:16 PM (BRvh1)
and now you know why it is from California.
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:16 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (0/+vJ)
Pride is one of the seven deadlies, and I'm fairly certain the root of all seven.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 05:16 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: NCKate at June 13, 2018 05:16 PM (x8Sgm)
Pride (and moral debauchery) goeth before the fall.
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:17 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Kiosk Katey, Robosexual at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (+y/Ru)
Spacely Sprockets announces Dieter as it's new, inclusive spokesman.
Unlike those h8rs at Cogswell Cogs.
Posted by: Miklos, minor shareholder at June 13, 2018 05:17 PM (zCyNd)
Expediency caused a trip to McD last week, and I get a tranny taking money at the drive-thru. He had 3 inch painted fingernails. But I did get the exact change.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 13, 2018 05:17 PM (r+sAi)
Pride (and moral debauchery) goeth before the fall.
Posted by: sven
NOT DEBAUCHERY!!!
Posted by: wrg500 at June 13, 2018 05:17 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: NCKate at June 13, 2018 05:16 PM (x8Sgm)
Just think of it like The Little Man in the Boat. Hard to find. But worth the effort.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 05:17 PM (fiGNd)
Has this jackoff landed himself a new consolation job yet since The Atlantic canned him?
Posted by: buzzion at June 13, 2018 05:18 PM (lKs2v)
I used to be pissed at the poor service and language issues provided by the illegals and DREAMers. Then, as Trump began his march across the land I noticed more and more natives holding those jobs. And, service is still FU. No interest in doing a good job for a day's pay.
Posted by: Keith at June 13, 2018 05:18 PM (USf3s)
Her McDonald's are installing the new kiosks, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History at June 13, 2018 05:18 PM (Mrl1e)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:18 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at June 13, 2018 05:18 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Chi-town Jerry at June 13, 2018 05:18 PM (e37eP)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: Skip at June 13, 2018 05:11 PM (pHfeF)
Aaaand the left effectively shuts down what used to be good starter jobs for the "at risk" youths that those lying assbreaths claimed to be. Why, it's as if everything they say is a fucking lie.
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (y7DUB)
And somebody has to make the robots and the automated order taking kiosks and make sure the software updates get installed.
Lotta employment opportunities at McDonalds.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: Under Fire at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (r9UYA)
I know what I want.
You know where the mic or the button is.
You've got the cash register.
Take my order and let's get this show on the road.
Instead, we're going to have:
*Beep* -- SELECTION DENIED --
*Boop* -- PLEASE TRY AGAIN --
*Blorp* -- para espanol, oprima el numero tres --
GAWDAMMITIJUSTWANTTWOCHEESBURGERS!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (BRvh1)
Goetzen car. Drive to Chick-fil-A. Makes most convoluted order ever. Received order in 15 seconds from a smiling person. And order is correct.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: Benji Carver at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (HtLSE)
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MOS Burger tastes like soylent green (I would imagine).
Hey, check out this Lovecraftian burger shogoth from Japan:
https://tinyurl.com/ybq9coej
"J.S. Burgers Cafe's limited-time G.B Burger features a black olive and anchovy paste beef patty topped with tomatoes and purple cabbage sandwiched between a black bun."
I'm going to guess "squid ink".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (JxMDl)
Posted by: csmats at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (X5VFN)
Posted by: RioBravo at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (iQKgg)
Posted by: DaveA
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Well, you make a point. What are the bachelors degree Philosophy/Literature/Studies graduates going to do for employment? Bus tables at real restaurants, I guess.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (kXPT5)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:13 PM (0/+vJ)
This is similar to the fact that to tell a woman she is beautiful is an observation, not a compliment.
Posted by: Miklos, does this observation amle my butt look big? at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (zCyNd)
Had to try to speak to a new person at the hospital parking lot yesterday. My biggest pet peeve is that they don't know enough American English to appreciate a simple joke. Tried to make a funny with the lady, but got a blank stare in return. Had to say, "That was a joke" and she still didn't get it.
I think new immigrants should be forced to go to a class where they show Three Stooges, Red Skelton and Milton Berle videos nonstop. If you don't laugh, back home you go.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (HaL55)
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Instead of who they use now?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (9uM86)
https://youtu.be/6UYurrW7GVg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Jen the original at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (NLeU
You sure? If they're set up similar self-checkout kiosk at stores they will have a cash option. It's not like that is some new technology since every vending machine has it.
Posted by: buzzion at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: bjstuggzzz at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (e44Qj)
Posted by: Weasel at June 13, 2018 05:14 PM (MVjcR)
Hi, friend! I'm the new friendlier Democrat Party. You're in luck! We agree you deserve nice things. We do, too. You see that White guy over there? The one driving a Toyota Camry? Why does he deserve a Camry? He didn't earn it! He probably stole it from you with his White male privilege. We'll make you a deal. If you will always vote for us, we'll take a lot of his obscene wealth and give it to you. Such a deal! Be sure and tell all your loser......., err, oppressed friends that we make sure they ride the gravy train. That's Democrat Party. D-E-M-O-K-R-I-D Party. Party on, dude.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: Hope Solo at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (4vcil)
Not all, and the kiosks will always have their people, too. McD's is probably aware of the grocery store experience, and isn't going to commit anything yet; not until they see how it goes.
I've had numerous occasions where, when returning from an overseas trip, the line at the Expedited Entry station was longer than the lines through the manned entry stations.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (X8DLV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: pookysgirl at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (xsdHf)
We've reached the point in our decline where democrats will argue in good faith no less that Donald Trump hiring with his wife's assent a professional sex worker is immoral but teachers debauching 13 year olds is "understandable."
Rome probably had "you can't stop love" types sexually identifying as trebuchets.
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (SzZnW)
for a while there, my local scottish restaurant had a canned "may i take your order" recording to make certain you started to talk before the order taker was ready to listen.
that's over and above their genius idea of having a double drive-thru that funnels down to a single lane at the pay window (while turning a corner, for extra convenience). all that did was push the bottleneck to taking payment (and the slow chip machines didn't help that) instead of handing out food.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (NmR1a)
Posted by: Caliban at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (QE8X6)
Pride (and moral debauchery) goeth before the fall.
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:17 PM (SzZnW)
They claim to be proud of their sins in order to convince themselves that they are not really sins. Good luck with that.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (/qEW2)
Well, yes, but I wasn't thinking of it in theological terms, but "Gay Feel Good About Yourself Day" which isn't a short enough slogan. My sexuality is not something I take pride in. The gay people I know-who haven't mostly gone to "Gay Pride events" except to to say "Yeah; They're off the wall." If they take pride in things it's their work ethic or that they regard themselves as a caring person, or they are good at sports or music or acting- that sort of thing..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (JxMDl)
That looks vile.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (MX7xj)
The 35 year old hispanic mom quip above is dead on.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM
My local Wendy's has a Throw Momma from the Train who works the window. She is three standard deviations to the left. But...she is a sweet as can be and always has something nice to say.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (0tfLf)
NRO Fonzie is back home at National R*tards Online....
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: DaveA
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Well, you make a point. What are the bachelors degree Philosophy/Literature/Studies graduates going to do for employment? Bus tables at real restaurants, I guess.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Barista.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: Asian Outrage Association at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (/H5Dl)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (Q1/bj)
Posted by: RioBravo at June 13, 2018 05:22 PM (iQKgg)
Posted by: csmats
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Well, that's interesting too. It implies that cash will no longer be accepted. I mean, there's no one there to take it and make change.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 13, 2018 05:22 PM (kXPT5)
"so uh God...your rules stink"
//Heathen
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:22 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: runner at June 13, 2018 05:22 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: FrostyTheDMan at June 13, 2018 05:23 PM (XjVix)
Posted by: Lucius Cornelius Sulla at June 13, 2018 05:23 PM (94N0K)
But McDonalds better use the freed labor to clean the damn restaurant
Posted by: MAGA at June 13, 2018 05:23 PM (lGq5D)
Posted by: Locke Common at June 13, 2018 05:23 PM (GD/ZV)
Posted by: Under Fire at June 13, 2018 05:23 PM (r9UYA)
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The self-check-out machines at the grocery stores here in AZ have a Spanish-language option. The convenience food kiosks will probably have the same. Unless it's Minnesota or Dearbornistan, Michigan, where they will have an Arabic or Somali option.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 13, 2018 05:23 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 13, 2018 05:23 PM (/H5Dl)
Posted by: PhilDirt at June 13, 2018 05:23 PM (owiSu)
i like the self-check lanes, but my local wal-mart has made them inconvenient by taking the plastic bags away; this is california, so they have to charge you a dime for each bag and can't trust you to count them yourself. instead, you have to beg the one person in control of all the self-check lanes for bags if you need them.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:23 PM (xGZ+b)
BTW the new fresh made to order never frozen quarter pounder is supposed to be good.
Posted by: Max Power at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (q177U)
I had that job minus cleaning the robots. Spent the overnight inside a McDonald's with an ex-con cleaning the fryolater, the grills including grease traps, the floors, tables, counters ... everything.
I've seen horrors most of you can't imagine.
I've also used a kiosk in a McD's in Australia. Easy peasy, got what I wanted and didn't have to deal with a snot nosed teenager with a tude.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (/tuJf)
Problem is, it's too little too late. Even if McDonald's no longer needs them, the Democrat party still does, and they'll fight like a junkyard dog with a bone to keep every last one of them. Even the murderers and violent criminals.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Weasel at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (AenW3)
back-and-forth with an order-taker trying to get them to understand the
words that have come out of your mouth."
Don't nobody understand the words coming out of your mouth!
Posted by: Detective Carter at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (JxMDl)
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (X8DLV)
Every time I use the self-checkout line, I get home and bitch about the "idiot" that bagged the groceries. Then I remember it was me. LOL!
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (MX7xj)
Impossible, you say? Maybe Elon can develop the technology.
Posted by: Miklos, close to dinner time at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (zCyNd)
130 The self-check-out machines at the grocery stores here in AZ have a Spanish-language option. The convenience food kiosks will probably have the same. Unless it's Minnesota or Dearbornistan, Michigan, where they will have an Arabic or Somali option.
my money's on "english, spanish, or pictures".
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (xGZ+b)
Posted by: Under Fire
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. How much money could I rake in if I made up a story about it and told Joe Biden?
Posted by: Prof. Anita Hill at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (9vQJW)
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (bZwzw)
Posted by: buzzion at June 13, 2018 05:20 PM (lKs2v)
Well, it's possible, but the issue with cash options is when someone tries to stick an old folded ten dollar bill in the machine and it keeps spitting it back out. Plus all the coins require a lot of refiling, packing for a bank,etc. Grocery stores do it because they also have a line of cash registers that take cash, so it's not as big a deal. But if a store wants to install kiosks as the only ordering mechanism besides online, I can't see them accepting cash.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 13, 2018 05:24 PM (NLeU8)
Close, "Hello citizen have you engaged in your daily three minutes of hate at YOURSELF?"
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:25 PM (SzZnW)
I want speed. In & out the quickest. Whether you do it or I do it, I don't care.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:25 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 13, 2018 05:22 PM (kXPT5)
Haven't used a vending machine in a while huh?
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 13, 2018 05:25 PM (/H5Dl)
Posted by: BEN ROTTENSPLOOGER at June 13, 2018 05:25 PM (94N0K)
It sucks that my teenage kid cannot go for the jobs I had at his age, but Open Borders Assholes closed that door to him a long time ago.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 13, 2018 05:26 PM (++G28)
Posted by: garrett at June 13, 2018 05:26 PM (4vcil)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 13, 2018 05:26 PM (myjNJ)
Posted by: Ned Beatty at June 13, 2018 05:26 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:25 PM (9uM86)
Always a sound strategy ...
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 05:26 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 13, 2018 05:27 PM (vyAx2)
i like it, but i liked the old one, too. since they've been doing 24-hour breakfast, it's been either quarter pounder or mcmuffin for me; can't handle their other burgers and they took away the chicken sandwiches i liked.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:27 PM (xGZ+b)
Posted by: astronaut achmed at June 13, 2018 05:27 PM (PUKsa)
Dime bag. Now there's something I haven't heard in a while...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:27 PM (7LY+6)
Beaks,talons,....,feathers? And by the time that they've mashed that into a pulp, it has no flavor, so they have to reconstitute the flavor from scratch.
Posted by: Axeman at June 13, 2018 05:27 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 05:28 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: runner at June 13, 2018 05:28 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 13, 2018 05:28 PM (7TeOH)
I imagine it's less about preferring human interaction and instead dealing with their shit layout for the checkout. It's great if you're grabbing a few items and then getting out of their, but very few places have a conveyor for you to unload all your stuff with the room afterwards for it to sit.
So instead you take an item out of your cart, scan it, and then in the bag, scan the next item, in the bag, oops the bag is now full gotta go mess with the bags now.
Much more convenient to have the conveyor table and some there for here I'll keep unloading my cart you scan my shit and maybe be lucky and the bag guy is free to also start getting everything ready to go.
Posted by: buzzion at June 13, 2018 05:28 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 13, 2018 05:28 PM (bZwzw)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 13, 2018 05:28 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:27 PM]/i]
Two dime bags will get you a nickel stretch.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (8O3HH)
It's "neat" I guess, but self-checkout lanes at Walmart and Target have been real eye-openers into the modern iteration of the human condition.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (cuDzS)
I missed White Castle...the only place here in the west that serves Kangaroo Meat is in Las Vegas.
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Barista.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (9uM86)
Whose new duties will include disinfecting the bathrooms with flamethrowers, placing soft pillows and providing drool buckets for sleeping homeless folks, learning Arabic to plead for your life, and 100's of other exciting new skills.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (9BLnV)
I was only partly kidding about being locked in a McD's overnight with an ex-con to clean the place. He was on some early work release program for dealing drugs and was not allowed to leave the store all night long.
It was not my favorite job.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (/tuJf)
I would like to attrit naturally. But I can only afford the imitation attrit.
Posted by: Sphynx at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (rXie1)
Now I think it's almost possible to do a car loan transaction at an ATM.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (/H5Dl)
Lotte Burger somehow manages not to have stale buns... that would be too easy. No, it's more like, zero condiment other than a sort of mayo, a completely flavorless bun, and a burger which is, itself, somehow stale. Not "tired" like McDouble out of the microwave at 9PM, but stale-like-stale-bagel-stale. With a little flavorless lettuce. I'm not sure how it's possible to create such a burger, but they did it.
McD in England doesn't have quite the snap it does here, although the fries are not bad, just different. McD in Germany, the fries were more obviously fried in vegetable oil, and just on balance not quite American Standard. McD SK is maybe just a touch below that.
/Sporkatus, traveling McDonald's conoisseur.
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (HtLSE)
Robot bouncer: You must order something or you will be removed.
Black Starbuck's hustlers: We're waiting for someone, and we need to use the bathroom.
Robot: You must make a purchase or you cannot use the bathroom.
BSH: We don't wanna purchase nothin'.
Robot: *grabs both by the collars and throws them out into the street*
Now, what are the Starbuck's hustlers going to do? They can't claim racism. A robot can't be racist. All the chain has to do is to show that their robot was programmed to treat everyone that way. You can't claim the robot has secret, hidden, unconscious biases.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (/qEW2)
Remember, *EVERYONE* has a future in biofuels. The government will just transform excess headcount to bodycount.
Posted by: FaCubeItches at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (rznWS)
into a pulp, it has no flavor, so they have to reconstitute the flavor
from scratch.
Yummmm, nothing like a big helping of chicken anus and beef lips.
Posted by: Under Fire at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: not the mama at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (t2AQi)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:25 PM (9uM86)
*recalculates business model*
Posted by: Stormy at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (zCyNd)
It's due to the "unexpected" shrinkage. (Not that kind. In retail, shrinkage means losses, usually theft)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:30 PM (7LY+6)
My local Wendy's has a Throw Momma from the Train who works the window. She is three standard deviations to the left. But...she is a sweet as can be and always has something nice to say.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (0tfLf)
I knew of several mentally handicapped individuals who worked at McDonalds. Their supervisors loved them, because once they understood and learned their job, they never deviated from it and they always did it exactly as instructed. Same with the one I knew who worked in a small piecemeal factory. Always on time, always performed her assembly work correctly, steady pace, never took extra breaks, etc.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 13, 2018 05:30 PM (NLeU8)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 13, 2018 05:30 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: SGTYork at June 13, 2018 05:30 PM (ITvKk)
Posted by: sven at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (SzZnW)
Steam that shit ... cover it with some half-assed cooked minced onions ...
... good eats. No SPAM - but what is ?
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 05:30 PM (fiGNd)
****************
Gonna be bustin' a cap in some touchscreens.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:30 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Sphynx at June 13, 2018 05:31 PM (rXie1)
mcdonalds already has an app for that; order with your phone, pick up via the drive-thru
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:31 PM (xGZ+b)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 13, 2018 05:31 PM (4e+hS)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 05:19 PM (roQNm)
Funny how there is always so much pissing and moaning about technology (or AI, or Jews, or Koreans, or Vietnamese, or you name it) destroying jobs while the number of employeds continues to rise.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 13, 2018 05:31 PM (X8DLV)
They put a tablet inside a giant paper weight and you can add stuff to your order or play games (for $1.99) with it.
I guess this is better then every restaurant having multiple TVs blaring CNN or ESPN at me.
Posted by: Big V at June 13, 2018 05:31 PM (ZvLtE)
A study just came out today confirming $27 an hour is needed for someone to rent a two-bedroom apartment in Seattle.
Which gets back to the question I ask of these fucking idiots every time:
Why $15 an hour? Why not $200?
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at June 13, 2018 05:32 PM (jWe5r)
Posted by: ShainS at June 13, 2018 05:32 PM (zvn2Y)
They aren't that great to use.
PLUS - personally, I'm going to McD to procure and consume food typically eaten with my bare hands. Yes, there is a place to go wash up after ordering, but the general concept of "let's have a common surface that EVERY PATRON WILL TOUCH and then put foodstuffs into their mouths" feels like a flu epidemic waiting to happen next November.
Posted by: reason at June 13, 2018 05:32 PM (sPO/s)
Posted by: Eromero at June 13, 2018 05:32 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (/qEW2)
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I *think* they probably can, unless you can show that they were manufactured and programmed by at least 75% black engineers.
See, the white people and the Asians have all *programmed* robots to BE racist. And even the black engineers could be like the black cops that are "racist" for some reason only known to grievance hustlers.
Posted by: Axeman at June 13, 2018 05:32 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:32 PM (xGZ+b)
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Details Behind Upcoming IG Report - The Clinton Email Investigation Recap, in a Video Series Format The Last Refuge
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (y3aQB)
*slowly raises hand*
Posted by: Ned Beatty at June 13, 2018 05:26 PM (rznWS)
https://youtu.be/j1KZOApOVlg
Posted by: buzzion at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (/H5Dl)
when I was a small boy, I could only work at the register because the fryer was too dangerous.
When I was 15, I was operating engine lathes, Bridgeport milling machines, surface grinders, vertical saws and other pretty dangerous machine shop power tools. Of course, we were well trained in safety for a couple of weeks prior to getting turned loose in the shop, but still...
No safety violations were ever tolerated by our instructor, for good reason.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (HaL55)
If a restaurant has a TV at all, I don't eat there. Period.
Also, an etch-a-sketch would be an improvement on the current staff at KFC.
Posted by: pep at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (8iiMU)
Posted by: Fritz at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (J7XgW)
If people talk to plants & play classical music to get them to grow....
Murderess!!!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (9uM86)
https://mashable.com/2016/11/28/solo-ramen-shop-nyc/#hxJGWeR8KSqI
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 13, 2018 05:34 PM (JxMDl)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (0tfLf)
You're just copying math problems from "urban" high schools.
"Jammmallll be manin' his corner on MLK for Shitavious, who got da hookup! Iffin' Shitavious fronts him 7 dime bags, how many do he haf to get popped wit to get a nickel in da joint?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 05:34 PM (9BLnV)
see zombie's post from earlier thread, errrr-reee-thin's racist.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 13, 2018 05:34 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,
You've just cured me from EVER going to one of those places.
Posted by: JT at June 13, 2018 05:34 PM (NiujI)
Posted by: Weasel at June 13, 2018 05:34 PM (MVjcR)
especially leon, who is getting larger.
Of course he's getting larger. He's drinking from the fry oil. Talk about your futures in biofuel, he's cutting out the middle man.
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 13, 2018 05:34 PM (HtLSE)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 13, 2018 05:33 PM (HaL55)
I don't blame any of my classmates for staying home, while I ran off to fight in The Big One ...
Posted by: Brian Williams at June 13, 2018 05:35 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: reason at June 13, 2018 05:32 PM
Yup!
How many noses got picked?
How many asses wiped?
(Remember, Achmed doesn't use TP)
How many perschnickles got shaken?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:35 PM (0tfLf)
Couldn't stand the thought that I was going there and helping to subsidize a system that is slowly degrading and destroying the community. That I politically support one position, and then worked to undermine it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 13, 2018 05:35 PM (/qEW2)
Thank you.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 13, 2018
05:13 PM (HaL55)
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Willow'd.
My apologies. I should have specified that I did not mean to impugn the good name of quality, home-made banana pudding.
What I intended to conjure in your mind's eye was more along the lines of the bulk-quantity schlep purchased in large cans and served at Chinese buffets and Golden Corral.
THAT...is nanner puddin' of the CNN varietal.
Posted by: reason at June 13, 2018 05:35 PM (sPO/s)
I was only partly kidding about being locked in a McD's overnight with an ex-con to clean the place. He was on some early work release program for dealing drugs and was not allowed to leave the store all night long.
It was not my favorite job.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 13, 2018 05:29 PM (/tuJf)
A friend of mine years ago was a counselor at an alternative high school for at risk youth( code for having committed crimes and on parole from juvy). Part of her job was getting those 17-20 year olds who were trying to finally get their HS diploma a job. Most of the jobs she got them was in restaurant work, I often went with her and we would stop at La Spaghetti and check up on Jaquon who was a busboy, etc. Their hourly pay was partially paid for by the state.
So the next time you are out at your favorite chain, don't be surprised that half the staff there are just a shade outside of felons. I think it was a good program, as it helped these kids see an alternative path in life to drugs, gangs and street life, but......
Posted by: Jen the original at June 13, 2018 05:35 PM (NLeU8)
typically eaten with my bare hands. Yes, there is a place to go wash up
after ordering, but the general concept of "let's have a common surface
that EVERY PATRON WILL TOUCH and then put foodstuffs into their mouths"
feels like a flu epidemic waiting to happen next November.
I had the same thought, but now we know what those superfluous staff will do as they wait for their jobs to wither away. Wipe down screens.
Posted by: pep at June 13, 2018 05:35 PM (LAe3v)
Wally world has been quietly restaffing regular checkouts... less shrinkage.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:36 PM (7LY+6)
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I ain't skeered of no enfection. I have an over active immune system that needs something to do besides killing my skin cells.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 05:36 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: WitchDoktor,"
My friends and I were probably the last of the white kids that got jobs as dishwashers which I started doing at 14. Hard fucking work but good experience and head chef always brought back a couple of pitchers of beer for all of us to share at the end of the night. Good times.
Posted by: Benji Carver at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (OD2ni)
If you are currently going to McDonald's for their hygienic conditions I've got some very bad news for you.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 05:34 PM (9BLnV)
You forgot the starting from Chicago part.
Posted by: Miklos, urban physicist at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (zCyNd)
OTOH, I learned how to run a cash register nearly fifty years ago, and the self checkout stands drive me insane because they are so slow and stupid. Half the time they can't read the UPC code, so I have to wave the item back and forth until the machine finally accepts the code. But I'd have to wait in line forever to get checked out by a human because the customers are so slow and stupid.
But from what I've read about the self serve food kiosks, I'd be willing to at least try one. Before I got into book selling, I worked in the food hospitality industry for several years, much of the time as either the manager or the assistant manager. Paying some yahoo off the street $15 an hour to flip a burger or assemble a sandwich just is not workable, at least not by the staff/food cost/over head formula I learned back in the Dark Ages.
Posted by: Deplorable Lady with Only Two Deplorable Cats at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (Yg8Fy)
Beaks,talons,....,feathers? And by the time that they've mashed that into a pulp, it has no flavor, so they have to reconstitute the flavor from scratch.
Posted by: Axeman at June 13, 2018 05:27 PM (vDqXW)
Something you should let your Vegan daughter know. Her Vegetarian products are likely covered in the blood and guts of all the rabbits and field mice that didn't get out of the way of the tractors fast enough.
Posted by: buzzion at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: Weasel at June 13, 2018 05:34 PM (MVjcR)
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No eye contact, people just stare at each other's floppy parts.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (JxMDl)
Btw, Chic-fil-a seems well-staffed group of people who can speak English. So I think that is still a viable business model.
Posted by: goodluckduck at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (rwaEp)
Posted by: An Observation at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (+AMbW)
How many noses got picked?
How many asses wiped?
(Remember, Achmed doesn't use TP)
How many perschnickles got shaken?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:35 PM (0tfLf)
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Our same McD has touchscreen game kiosks at some of the tables for kids to play Tic-Tac-Toe on and whatnot.
My inner gemophone REEEEE's at the sight of these. Every snot-nosed urchin with post-nasal drip and a short attention span has had their grubby germclaws all over that screen.
This is verbatim the way I presented my case to my own children. They literally scooted their chairs a few inches away from the screens as the words sunk in.
Posted by: reason at June 13, 2018 05:38 PM (sPO/s)
now is the time at spacely shprockets where we dance
Posted by: Dieter at June 13, 2018 05:38 PM (xGZ+b)
Posted by: An Observation"
I woder if Ben Shapiro's sister has ever worked at Hooters.
Posted by: Benji Carver at June 13, 2018 05:38 PM (OD2ni)
that EVERY PATRON WILL TOUCH and then put foodstuffs into their mouths"
feels like a flu epidemic waiting to happen next November.
Voice to text, my friend.
Posted by: pep at June 13, 2018 05:38 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Octopussy at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (PiSL4)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (7LY+6)
At the local Subway the staff are really circumspect about the prep gloves. Of course, there's probably still bong vapor coalesced in the bread and the ingredient tubs are incubating who knows, but still.
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (HtLSE)
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Court Sets Hearing on Motion to Compel Email Testimony from Hillary Clinton - Judicial Watch
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (y3aQB)
tough stuff, at times.
Posted by: concrete girl at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (IVQr2)
Those coke dispensing machines with a million different options of soda gross me out. You can see the bacteria mutating on the screen when you go to touch them.
Not exactly what I want to do right before I eat.
That being said, the hygiene standards at fast food places whig me out as it is. Part of the reason I avoid fast food as much as possible and tend to make most of my own food.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (F5+ro)
Gas pump, grocery cart, ATM, etc.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (/H5Dl)
Posted by: goodluckduck at June 13, 2018 05:40 PM (rwaEp)
Posted by: buzzion at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (lKs2v)
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DOES SHE KNOW THAT HER HUMMUS USES EVERY PART OF THE CHICK-PEA?
*shiver*
Posted by: reason at June 13, 2018 05:40 PM (sPO/s)
Posted by: goon at June 13, 2018 05:40 PM (PEcU2)
The staff at my local Subway's looks like the gang from the Star Wars bar scene. If they broke out those goofy instruments and started jamming I wouldn't bat an eye.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 13, 2018 05:40 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Benji Carver at June 13, 2018 05:38 PM (OD2ni)
Go check out her website.
When she's all made-up for those shows ... she's pretty cute.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 05:41 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Shep! at June 13, 2018 05:07 PM (FZYNt)
Ahem!
Posted by: Uncle Louie Farrakhan at June 13, 2018 05:41 PM (rdl6o)
Just about every fast food place is staffed by illegal aliens, at least in my state, one of the biggest proponents of loose immigration enforcement were franchise owners.
They'd own like 30 McDonalds and make a big stink if Joe Arpaio decided to go after illegals. Republican officeholders would fall in line to get that $1,000 campaign check.
Posted by: Maritime at June 13, 2018 05:41 PM (lKmt3)
Over the same period with humans at McDonald's: easily 25%.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 13, 2018 05:41 PM (ppaKI)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (VgKNm)
Who speaks iffy English and yet has a tag that says she's the staff trainer. That was our most recent human order taker. Had the same lady and same trouble the previous time we'd gone to that site. Won't be back for a good long while.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 13, 2018 05:41 PM (rp9xB)
Gas pump, grocery cart, ATM, etc.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (/H5Dl)
My solution?
I'm the asshole who uses the provided wipes to clean every grocery cart, and I have hand sanitizer in my car for gas pumps and ATMs and stuff.
We'll probably find out hand sanitizer does nothing but help bacteria and viruses evolve into even more freakish stuff, but whatever.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:41 PM (F5+ro)
ya butt I'm not crazy like Howard Hughes was. Not rich neither.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 05:42 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: pep at June 13, 2018 05:42 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:42 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: gp at June 13, 2018 05:42 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: RioBravo at June 13, 2018 05:42 PM (iQKgg)
Posted by: Under Fire at June 13, 2018 05:42 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Deplorable Lady with Only Two Deplorable Cats at June 13, 2018 05:37 PM (Yg8Fy)
Indeed. Ye stuffing of a lesser beeste into a greter beeste, with the enstuffening of yet lesser beestes, and not to speak of ye skylarks to emerge aflight....
Posted by: Miklos, Dark Ages Chef at June 13, 2018 05:43 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: goodluckduck at June 13, 2018 05:43 PM (rwaEp)
only took a few seconds for Battle Royale with Cheese to get flipped on its back a coupla weeks ago on BattleBots. had no self-righting technology.
also never managed to get its battle bacon spun up.
highly disappointing.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:43 PM (xGZ+b)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 13, 2018 05:40 PM (/tuJf)
Up here in the woods, it's all high school kids working at these places, which has it own issues.
They understand what I order, they just usually choose to flirt with the girl at the cash register instead of making my semmich how I ordered it.
But hey, I'd rather see that than the alternative I guess.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:43 PM (F5+ro)
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These jobs should attrit by nature as people movr up the food chain. To stir up trouble, Marxist weirdos began insisting that these low level jobs should be careers that will pay for home ownership and children, pay more than the economic value produced, pay more than positions that require years of education.
What about customers who are too dumb to use the automated kiosks? Are they going to protest about that next? Force the stores to hire special helpers?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 13, 2018 05:43 PM (4TznP)
Well, that depends. If I can borrow for close to zero because I'm a blue chip, and I can roll over my debt forever, then I want that damn machine. If I have to 8% or more interest on it, I might *not* want that machine - it would depend on how long it will live.
The low interest rate environment is brutal on labor because it makes capital just so very cheap. Now, order-taking was likely going to be automated anyway for some of the reasons Ace mentions, but they could automate (and are working on it) the whole damn store including the cooking. That is terribly expensive but if capital is free then it doesn't matter - especially when you're staring down the barrel of a $15 minimum wage.
Hiking the minimum wage isn't necessary. Hike interest rates and watch what happens to labor demand.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2018 05:44 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 05:34 PM
Sheeeeeettttt Bra. Ain't nuthin'!
Pat the staffer for Kankels, is responsible for keeping her glass filled while on each 2.5 hour flight from NY to Miami. If Hillz slams a 6 oz martini every 10 minutes, how many olives will Pat need to cover the flight?
Extra Credit: How many toothpicks will be needed if there is a weather hold for 45 minutes?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:44 PM (0tfLf)
Anyhow, you could order a burger minus the bun, in a lettuce wrap.
Place was clean and very nice, for a fast food establishment.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 13, 2018 05:44 PM (ptqGC)
You know damned well that this is just a slippery slope to Robo Glory Holes.
DOUBLE HELPING OF SECRET SAUCE, PLEASE!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2018 05:44 PM (eXA4G)
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 13, 2018 05:44 PM (bZwzw)
Posted by: Horn & Hardart Automats at June 13, 2018 05:44 PM (SGpFT)
a finglonger. as seen on futurama.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:45 PM (NmR1a)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:27 PM (7LY+6)
Last project I was on, the emergency contact phone went off at around 2:00 AM: some guy was trying to score a dime bag.
The point man that night was the construction manager - a good ol' boy who hasn't set foot in a city bigger than 10,000 in his life. I had to explain to him what a "dime bag" was. Then I had to explain to him how I happened to know this.
Memo to self: You could keep your mouth shut once in a while.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 13, 2018 05:45 PM (X8DLV)
McCormick has these Grill Mates sauce packs. Normally this is something I would never use, because I believ in minimal handling of ground beef before grilling burgers. But on a whim I tried their Montreal Steak burger flavoring sauce. You mix it in before you grill. It was extremely good. I put the patties back in the fridge before I grilled them to firm them up. Then kraft cheese for a fast food flavor. Excellent burgers.
Posted by: Max Power at June 13, 2018 05:45 PM (q177U)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 05:45 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 05:45 PM (qqDHc)
Hmmm....not sure how to react to this.
I purchased a breakfast meal # 1 with large regular coffee with two Splenda and one cream.
Whoever came up with the idea to thin the menu down and most important....
Offer breakfast sandwiches during all open hours and not just during breakfast is proof that there is at least ONE..
Common Sense Kirk Conservative
As Yoda would say (before Disney took over):
"Wise you are"
Posted by: Sapwolf at June 13, 2018 05:45 PM (9C0cu)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (F5+ro)
Golflady is a health inspector.
Franchises are way better than Mom and Pop's.
Do YOU wash your hands after handling the menu?
Posted by: golfman at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (If3tB)
Hiking the minimum wage isn't necessary. Hike interest rates and watch what happens to labor demand.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2018 05:44 PM (I2dne)
Right, the cost of capital (K) v. cost of Labor (L) graph does not seem to register with many people.
When labor is expensive, capital investment looks more attractive, and vice versa. Which is why US factories are typically more automated than factories in, say, Indonesia.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (F5+ro)
Indeed. This is why I chuckle at the "Japan is in trouble " bits. They've done a marvelous job of decreasing the number of required human interactions...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Asian Outrage Association at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM (/H5Dl)
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It's all fun and games until the attendant forgets which orifice gets which probe...
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (qC1Sy)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (ppaKI)
Franchises are way better than Mom and Pop's.
Do YOU wash your hands after handling the menu?
Posted by: golfman at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (If3tB)
Religiously. I don't even like touching menus. I've never seen anyone clean a menu in my life.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (F5+ro)
Frankly, a PITA.
Besides everyone has already touched the screen you will hold food with, try ordering a special order of some kind (extra this, hold that).
I think I could raise my own beef cattle, slaughter and process, and cook up my own burger in about the same time it takes for me to order. If I spent a shift there every day, I would know the menu layout. But as little as I use it, it is essentially new to me because of infrequent use.
It is almost like they don't want my money.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: gp at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 13, 2018 05:40 PM (/tuJf)
I might flip up my eye patch and stare. Would that be wrong?
Posted by: Miklos, called "Cocles" at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (zCyNd)
Has this jackoff landed himself a new consolation job yet since The Atlantic canned him?
Posted by: buzzion at June 13, 2018 05:18 PM (lKs2v)
++++
He has been published at NRO since then, but I don't know if he's back on staff or if they are just printing his stuff when he submits something they like.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 13, 2018 05:47 PM (pvjTE)
Personally, I have come to believe that the Federal Reserve raising interest rates doesn't slow the economy.
All it does is make everything more expensive which adds to the inflation that raising interest rates is claimed to fight.
I, for one, am not buying the excuses any longer.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 05:47 PM (roQNm)
Lips, tits and assholes add flavor. THERE is your flavor.
Posted by: Fritz at June 13, 2018 05:47 PM (J7XgW)
McMooGooGaiPan
I'll bet my left nut at least one of you morons knows what Moo Goo Gai Pan actually consists of. And "gobbledygook" is not an acceptable answer.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 05:47 PM (qqDHc)
Pat the staffer for Kankels, is responsible for keeping her glass filled while on each 2.5 hour flight from NY to Miami. If Hillz slams a 6 oz martini every 10 minutes, how many olives will Pat need to cover the flight?
Extra Credit: How many toothpicks will be needed if there is a weather hold for 45 minutes?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:44 PM (0tfLf)
That's a trick question! Candles would get the DT's if she only got a single 6oz. martini in 10 minutes. You thought you had me there, huh?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 05:47 PM (9BLnV)
I never knew.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 05:45 PM (fiGNd)
Big tits bring in the cocaine. Also she was caught by 4chan being a camwhore. And the fact she is built like a chicken head. Just sayin...
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 13, 2018 05:47 PM (bZwzw)
Posted by: golfman at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (If3tB)
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I usually do that - but then then salt and pepper shakers!!
Posted by: RioBravo at June 13, 2018 05:48 PM (iQKgg)
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 13, 2018 05:21 PM
I stopped using the self-checkout at certain locations not because I miss the human interaction. It's the system the store uses. Too many places require you to place the item in a bag right after you swipe it, with the system registering that some weight got added to the bag. Good luck with that, especially with lightweight items. The machine will keep telling you to place the item in the bag. You can't swipe anything else or otherwise move on, you're stuck. So now I don't do self-checkout unless the store has a traditional conveyor belt.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (2NqXo)
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In January, Moby claimed in a radio interview that the CIA recruited him to spread information pertaining to Trump's alleged collusion with Russia.
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I'm sure it was all about protecting the Trump campaign. (It could be Moby is full of shit, though).
Posted by: Axeman at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (vDqXW)
Lips, tits and assholes add flavor. THERE is your flavor.
Posted by: Fritz at June 13, 2018 05:47 PM (J7XgW)
Oh yeah. Google "mechanically separated chicken" which is what is in many, many pre-made chickeny foods.
I mean, I'm all for efficiency, but yuck.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 05:47 PM
Dang. you're good. What are you doing on a Horde site?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:46 PM (F5+ro)
Most here are laminated and when we dine out I've often seen the staff wiping them with what is supposed to be sanitizing solution.
Posted by: golfman at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (If3tB)
Gas pump, grocery cart, ATM, etc.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (/H5Dl)
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Agreed, for sure. The only thing is, I'm not likely to be using those things and then immediately eating a burger and fries.
And yes, most of it is in my head. I go wash after ordering and before eating, but it's still in my head. And I wind up sitting there watching the people who do use the kiosks, and seeing who goes to wash and who doesn't before getting their food.
The McD with these still also has real people, and it's nice. They will even bring the food to your table (like Chicken Express and Whatatburger).
Posted by: reason at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (sPO/s)
Posted by: Weasel at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: RioBravo at June 13, 2018 05:48 PM (iQKgg)
Yep.
Posted by: golfman at June 13, 2018 05:50 PM (If3tB)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 05:47 PM (qqDHc)
It consists of #4 on the menu, silly.
Posted by: Miklos, Mei-guo-ren at June 13, 2018 05:50 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Weasel at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (MVjcR)
They call me ... Chicken Head.
Posted by: Abigail Shapiro at June 13, 2018 05:50 PM (fiGNd)
Anyone see where a Chipotle worker was fired for stealing and the jury awarded the fired worker $8 million?
All because they didn't have the theft on video.
Posted by: Maritime at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM (lKmt3)
Posted by: goon at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM (PEcU2)
They've done a marvelous job of decreasing the number of required human
interactions...
They probably should have stopped before they got to Male/Female.
Posted by: pep at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Zombie Darryl at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (0tfLf)
Trying to sell dime bags. You know, bags to hold your dimes.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: Muad'dib at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM (pgBqa)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 13, 2018 05:52 PM (5VFi3)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 05:52 PM (VgKNm)
I went to one recently and was shocked by how many people they had in the kitchen. All working instead of standing around too. And speaking English to each other even though they were all races.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 13, 2018 05:52 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: RioBravo at June 13, 2018 05:48 PM (iQKgg)
Yeah, the condiments is usually where I get bummed out.
Do you think anyone is cleaning those ketchup or mustard containers between customers?
And you're kind of shit out of luck -- you need to touch it, and your food is right there. I typically try to use my left hand to touch gross condiments.
Watch your waitress next time youre in a restaurant. She'll put her thumb on your plate when she serves it, then bus another table, then grab her cash tip off another table, then touch another customers food/ plate. Maybe even occasionally replate things if they moved around in transit to where the tray thing is from whence she is serving you.
All without washing her hands.
Eeks.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:52 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 05:52 PM (qqDHc)
Seriously, I asked how much such-and-such costs (it was the special on the flashing billboard outside) and the clerk was BAFFLED.
Posted by: ArthurK at June 13, 2018 05:52 PM (IzAlf)
It would have been quicker to zip over to the local Burger King.
my local burger king burns everything to a crisp.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:52 PM (xGZ+b)
camwhore. And the fact she is built like a chicken head. Just sayin...
Are you TRYING to be opaque?
Posted by: pep at June 13, 2018 05:53 PM (LAe3v)
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These jobs should attrit by nature as people movr up the food chain
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Just what jobs are there "up the chain" in a McDonald's?
Ain't like there's six or 7 different departments with numerous slots in each department
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:53 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: Max Power at June 13, 2018 05:45 PM (q177U)
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Hmmm.
I'll have to try the sauce.
I like the M Steak seasoning a lot --- and not just on meat.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 13, 2018 05:53 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (F5+ro)
You never lived on a farm, did you?
Mr. Armour did not invent the "everything but the squeal" level of efficient use.
Posted by: Miklos, from a farming family at June 13, 2018 05:53 PM (zCyNd)
The problem I always have is with the shithead mulletted muu-muu wearing pile of diabetes that's always in front of me, taking twenty g.d. minutes to figure out what her jackass grandchildren want, but they're too hyper and undisciplined to just stand there and pick one of four options of Happy Meal, no, i've gotta listen to "Braydon? Braydon! Braydon? Braydon! BRAYDON!" on an unshuffled repeat loop for more time than it takes for Taylor Swift to crap out one of her godawful "songs" from her silly blonde noggin. All this while I'm standing there starving, with a veritable motocross of six-year olds kicking up dust and torn up straw wrappers, swarming around my legs as if they knew me, and all I know is that one of the little shitheads is apparently named Braydon. That one's probably the ringleader.
No, the cashier is just fine.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 05:53 PM (BRvh1)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 05:53 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: goodluckduck at June 13, 2018 05:53 PM (rwaEp)
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Supposedly only breast, rib, tenderloin, and skin.
Posted by: RioBravo at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM (iQKgg)
Seriously, I asked how much such-and-such costs (it was the special on the flashing billboard outside) and the clerk was BAFFLED.
Posted by: ArthurK at June 13, 2018 05:52 PM (IzAlf)
314 36 so I had to stand in line and talk to a human...
It would have been quicker to zip over to the local Burger King.
my local burger king burns everything to a crisp.
Posted by: Anachronda
*cough Chick-fil-A cough*
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM (0/+vJ)
What's the over/under on when the demands are that some robots be designated as queer?
Posted by: tu3031 at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (0tfLf)
Trying to sell dime bags. You know, bags to hold your dimes.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM
Right.
I'm just here cause this morning someone was going to find some old pics of AtC's hoot...ahhh....elections night flash event.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (F5+ro)
You never lived on a farm, did you?
Mr. Armour did not invent the "everything but the squeal" level of efficient use.
Posted by: Miklos
No. That would be cajuns.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:55 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: Weasel at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (MVjcR)
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Mine too
Posted by: Zombie Darryl at June 13, 2018 05:51 PM (vDqXW)
Yo, bruthas!
An' y'all support my man Cory Booker!
Posted by: T-bone at June 13, 2018 05:55 PM (zCyNd)
Gas pump, grocery cart, ATM, etc.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 13, 2018 05:39 PM (/H5Dl)
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I know lots of people use the alcohol based hand cleaner, but we carry baby wipes. Haven't had a baby in years, but those things are very useful.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 05:55 PM (VgKNm)
Posted by: golfman at June 13, 2018 05:49 PM (If3tB)
Well, I like to hear that they are cleaned.
It's the laminated menus that wig me out the most.
Any moisture / bacteria gets trapped between what is essentially two pieces of waterproof plastic.
At least with a paper menu, the water evaporates (or ruins the paper and is thrown out) and the bacteria should theoretically die before I have to touch the menu.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:55 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: illiniwek at June 13, 2018 05:55 PM (bT8Z4)
Oh, and bus your own table.
It was the first time I had ever seen anything like that and I thought, " Well, that's too bad. This college just saw to it that no students could ever work their way through."
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at June 13, 2018 05:55 PM (SGpFT)
The kiosks will require a credit card. Not going to work well in low income areas.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (NLeU
Nope.
The kiosk prints out a paper receipt of your order with a big number at the top. The customer takes the receipt and moves to the cash register, yes, the same cash register where you formerly spoke your order to an employee. There you pay for it. The cashier types the order number into the register and asks for your money.
So now 2 lines instead of 1.
I am not kidding.
Seriously.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 13, 2018 05:53 PM (0jtPF)
*turns head ... slowly*
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: wth at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (HgMAr)
Boston Dynamics is developing the AssPounder 9000 line as we speak.
Posted by: pep at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM (0/+vJ)
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Oh no.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (VgKNm)
when McNuggets first came out, they were super awesome
the sauces, Honey Mustard, Barbecue, Sweet Sour, were amazing
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: RS at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (CNQqJ)
She's on some "good witch" show on Hallmark or Lifetime. And, yes, she still looks good.
Posted by: tu3031 at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 13, 2018 05:57 PM (dUJdY)
went to a McDonald's in Eindhoven once. the placemat had a story about a kid in Norway who collected McDonald's placemats. naturally, i had to save it. no idea where i put it when i got home, though....
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 05:57 PM (xGZ+b)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM (0/+vJ)
::puts on professor glasses::
Well, chickens are known for the way that their heads move back and forth. The motion that they make looks similar, but not quite identical, to the motion a person would make when performing fellatio.
Thus, a woman (or man, I suppose) who performs a lot of fellatio is known as a "chicken head."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:57 PM (F5+ro)
Watch your waitress next time youre in a restaurant. She'll put her thumb on your plate when she serves it, then bus another table, then grab her cash tip off another table, then touch another customers food/ plate. Maybe even occasionally replate things if they moved around in transit to where the tray thing is from whence she is serving you.
All without washing her hands.
Eeks.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
And that is how you grow up with a functioning immune system.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:57 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: goon at June 13, 2018 05:58 PM (PEcU2)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 05:58 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: Al Sharpton at June 13, 2018 05:58 PM (398bZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM (0/+vJ)
Fen, you honestly, almost certainly, do not want to know.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 05:58 PM (BRvh1)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 13, 2018 05:58 PM (0jtPF)
I haven't been back.
Posted by: backbeatbaby at June 13, 2018 05:58 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 05:59 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 05:59 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM
I took one for the team, and looked to see if the term existed on Urban Dictionary. It does.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 13, 2018 05:59 PM (ctuyM)
I'm looking at Catherine Bell's cones right now on the tv, in her very-tailored-to-fit Air Force blouse.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 05:59 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 13, 2018 05:59 PM (O5Q3r)
i live in a chick-fil-a desert. as well as most every other kind of desert; nearest wendy's is like 50 miles away.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (xGZ+b)
Kiosk will probably also link to your phone. Just download the McD app, and use that instead of the poopanel.
Posted by: wooga at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (dgk4E)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 13, 2018 05:59 PM (ctuyM)
Of course it does.
In my former 'hood, it was a popular term for prostitutes and/or overall "easy" women. (see, I can translate millennialspeak to oldpeople speak)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (BRvh1)
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (xGZ+b)
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New Jersey?
Posted by: Axeman at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (vDqXW)
Use 'em alot. As a dry-rub. Mixed with oil for marinade. Sprinkled on while grilling.
And 'Rita is right. Good on vegetables too.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (2CQCl)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- "
Is she still a Scientologist?
Posted by: Benji Carver at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (OD2ni)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yaqdhy4c
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at June 13, 2018 06:01 PM (hMwEB)
when McNuggets first came out, they were super awesome
the sauces, Honey Mustard, Barbecue, Sweet Sour, were amazing
i miss the mcdlt.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 13, 2018 06:01 PM (xGZ+b)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 13, 2018 05:07 PM (Y9uH4)
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I feel ya. It's annoying. But, it's how a lot of stoned skater kids learn to work and hold a job. It's the first step toward not being an annoying, useless person.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 13, 2018 06:01 PM (UiRxW)
Posted by: JT at June 13, 2018 06:01 PM (NiujI)
Well, chickens are known for the way that their heads move back and forth. The motion that they make looks similar, but not quite identical, to the motion a person would make when performing fellatio.
Thus, a woman (or man, I suppose) who performs a lot of fellatio is known as a "chicken head."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:57 PM
Raises hand.
Professor, will there be homework on this class?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 06:01 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 06:02 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: Fritz at June 13, 2018 06:02 PM (J7XgW)
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Look it may be all hip and cool, and all the groovy hep cats are doing it these days--but I'd prefer somebody take my order without profanity.
Posted by: Axeman at June 13, 2018 06:02 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
For a lot less than $15/hr.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 06:02 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 13, 2018 06:02 PM (HtLSE)
women and children hardest hit.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 13, 2018 05:12 PM (FOPyv)
Heh. You laugh, but when I worked at McDonald's they put guys in the back and only girls did the register. If you saw a guy doing the register he was training for a shift manager slot.
One day, sweaty and covered in grease, I asked the manager why they put the girls up front, and he said "If you came in to order, who would you rather see?" He had me there.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 13, 2018 06:02 PM (h2Bdk)
O.K. Thanks, I guess
It was not a very helpful way of the poster to phrase it. Better to say "She bobbed back and forth looked like someone who performs a lot of fellatio" rather than "built like a chicken head." Built means "built" as in body type.
I would be glad to know that I was not the only person who didn't know what that meant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 06:03 PM (0/+vJ)
All kidding aside ... the McCormick's Seasonings are pretty good.
Use 'em alot. As a dry-rub. Mixed with oil for marinade. Sprinkled on while grilling.
And 'Rita is right. Good on vegetables too.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM (fiGNd)
Huh, I may try them on feet then. man they are tough.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 13, 2018 06:03 PM (2CQCl)
Professor, will there be homework on this class?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2018 06:01 PM (0tfLf)
Yes, everyone must now go out with $10, go to the closest shooting gallery, find a junkie, and ask her to go "chicken head" on you. Hold out the $10 while you ask, it's a universal language.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 06:03 PM (F5+ro)
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Yes, yes they do.
Posted by: Axeman at June 13, 2018 06:03 PM (vDqXW)
Use 'em alot. As a dry-rub. Mixed with oil for marinade. Sprinkled on while grilling.
And 'Rita is right. Good on vegetables too.
Posted by: ScoggDog
Bourbon & brown sugar.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 06:03 PM (9uM86)
btw, we were ahead of the curve yesterday when we discussed Harvard's anti-Asian letter
Others wrote about it today and came to the same conclusion we did.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 06:03 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: goon at June 13, 2018 06:03 PM (PEcU2)
Posted by: freaked at June 13, 2018 06:03 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Jen the original at June 13, 2018 05:15 PM (NLeU
EBT.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 05:16 PM (BRvh1)
Just like at the grocery store, you can put cash into the machine. It even makes change. Not exactly rocket surgery.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:04 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 13, 2018 05:43 PM (4TznP)
{Furiously scribbles notes}
Posted by: Progresive Activists at June 13, 2018 06:04 PM (8lsuS)
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 13, 2018 06:05 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Leftists Everywhere at June 13, 2018 06:05 PM (4C0+v)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 13, 2018 06:05 PM (5VFi3)
Posted by: freaked
Que, ese?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 06:05 PM (9uM86)
Best I ever had was a McDonald's in Milan, on the way to the airport, after a 2 week vacation. Pesto, pasta and seafood is all very well, but at that point, I would have killed for a quarter pounder. The best thing was that they gave you lots of ice in your drink. Most Italians give you none, and if you ask for some they'll bring 1-2 small cubes. They act like it's gold.
Posted by: pep at June 13, 2018 06:05 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 13, 2018 06:03 PM (2CQCl)
Mix 1 packet Applewood Rub with two cups oil
Marinate for two hours
Grill until juices run clear
Enjoy !!!
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:05 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 06:02 PM (9uM86)
So you're a cheap 'drunk by the hour'?
Posted by: Progresive Activists at June 13, 2018 06:05 PM (8lsuS)
genius to push big buttons that correspond with the food you want to
buy.
Yeah, 15 taps later you have your specially ordered quarter pounder. And if you screw up along the way, good luck going back.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 13, 2018 06:06 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: RickZ at June 13, 2018 06:06 PM (8lsuS)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 13, 2018 05:07 PM (Y9uH4)
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I feel ya. It's annoying. But, it's how a lot of stoned skater kids learn to work and hold a job. It's the first step toward not being an annoying, useless person.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 13, 2018 06:01 PM (UiRxW)
I'm not sure that's as true as it used to be. There are people who get stuck there, still working McDonald's in their early thirties.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 13, 2018 06:06 PM (h2Bdk)
It's fine, really. Some of us don't use these fancy terms when discussing this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 06:06 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 05:54 PM (0/+vJ)
Yeah, I didn't understand that either.
Posted by: rickl at June 13, 2018 06:06 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 13, 2018 06:07 PM (2CQCl)
Thus, a woman (or man, I suppose) who performs a lot of fellatio is known as a "chicken head."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 05:57 PM
I'm guess a guy's head would look pretty much the same performing that particular service.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:07 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 06:00 PM
Is there a market for oldpeople to millennialspeak translation?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 13, 2018 06:07 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:07 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 06:07 PM (0/+vJ)
I'm guess a guy's head would look pretty much the same performing that particular service.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:07 PM (7UW64)
Well, I wouldn't know.
But, yeah, I mean, probably.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 06:07 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: freaked at June 13, 2018 06:07 PM (UdKB7)
Best I ever had was a McDonald's in Milan, on the way to the airport, after a 2 week vacation. Pesto, pasta and seafood is all very well, but at that point, I would have killed for a quarter pounder. The best thing was that they gave you lots of ice in your drink. Most Italians give you none, and if you ask for some they'll bring 1-2 small cubes. They act like it's gold.
Posted by: pep at June 13, 2018 06:05 PM (LAe3v)
I've heard people rave about the Tokyo McDonald's. And rant, because it cost them $25 for a burger and fries.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 13, 2018 06:08 PM (h2Bdk)
Nobody spits in your food at a fast food chain anymore.
Those kitchens are wall to wall cameras for QA. They'd be stopped and yanked out of the kitchen immediately.
Now your typical muckity-muck $30 a plate restaurant? THOSE are the assholes doing nasty things with the nicoise.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 06:08 PM (BRvh1)
Posted by: Notorious BFD
Meat, cheese, ketchup, bun. Not difficult.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 06:08 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 13, 2018 06:09 PM (Tyii7)
Here's a take no one made yet: It will be nice not to get sick while we order our food looking at the zit faced kid with piercings, tattoos, and huge holes in their earlobes.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 06:09 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 06:09 PM (0/+vJ)
Not if he's doing it right.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 13, 2018 06:09 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 13, 2018 06:07 PM (ctuyM)
I don't know, but if anyone is hiring, hit me up! (that means "contact me" or "write me a letter" -- see, I'm already on the job.)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 06:10 PM (F5+ro)
Or in the drive through it calls/emails me while in line ... then an actual human runs the order out to my car so no waiting for me ... cuz I'm special, close friends with KathyKiosk. ha
Posted by: illiniwek at June 13, 2018 06:10 PM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 06:08 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: B. uh, Florida Man at June 13, 2018 06:10 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 13, 2018 06:10 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 13, 2018 06:10 PM (2CQCl)
Posted by: Kid behind you in line at June 13, 2018 06:10 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: RickZ at June 13, 2018 06:11 PM (8lsuS)
It's nice to hear Catherine Bell is aging well.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 05:58 PM (qqDHc)
Judging from the Bing images, I'd say her sweater puppies are doing just fine.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:11 PM (7UW64)
I saw it happen once, many years ago, when a Hindu looking guy walking into a burger joint and asked for a 'meatless' burger. I presumed he wanted a soyburger.
What they gave him was a hamburger bun with ketchup, mustard, pickle and a little lettuce.
The Hindu looking guy was PISSED!
For some reason, I'm thinking it was a Burger King where they 'do it your way.'
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 06:11 PM (roQNm)
otherwise the McDonald's experience won't be complete
Posted by: Joe 'Russian Hands and Roman Fingers' Biden at June 13, 2018 06:11 PM (RKQ/v)
It's probably already been said but someone still has to clean the machines and bathrooms.
Heard at Starbucks these jobs are hiring BIGLY.
Some kind of management decision.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 13, 2018 06:12 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 13, 2018 06:12 PM (JFO2v)
Just push the damn buttons grandpa!
Posted by: Kid behind you in line at June 13, 2018 06:10 PM (UdKB7)
For Gods sake! NO it doesn't take checks!
Posted by: Cheery kiosk Helper at June 13, 2018 06:12 PM (2CQCl)
Posted by: Grandpa at June 13, 2018 06:12 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 13, 2018 06:12 PM (pw+jk)
Or in the drive through it calls/emails me while in line ... then an actual human runs the order out to my car so no waiting for me ... cuz I'm special, close friends with KathyKiosk. ha
Posted by: illiniwek
At that point, let's just have Star Trek Replicators in home.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 06:12 PM (9uM86)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:11 PM (7UW64)
Those are a sure-fire give-away.
She's a chicken head.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:12 PM (fiGNd)
We have a favorite McDonalds we stop at going and coming from a regular destination. The food is passable, but it has become a destination because they've NEVER gotten an order right. Ten years of stopping, and something is always wrong.
Christmas we thought they'd broken the streak, but the Dr Pepper was just fizzy water (no syrup). We laughed and laughed.
Spring break we thought they'd succeeded, and the pack of apples in the Happy Meal had one apple slice in it (usually six or so).
I love that place.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (VgKNm)
Posted by: ryukyu at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (Lb4wQ)
Posted by: goon at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (PEcU2)
I think we knew what that meant. Maybe we're just not up to date on the latest terms for sex acts because the people we areprobably having sex with are about the same age we are, and don't know the new terms either. I am not sorry I do not know this, but I'm sure there are people who would want to know this and that there's a market for it
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (0/+vJ)
I am not kidding.
Seriously.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 13, 2018 05:56 PM (UsCnO)
Progress. Heh.
Like Hungary when it was a People's Republic.
Posted by: Miklos, just Miklos at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Eromero at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 06:12 PM (9uM86)
I agree.
As a borderline germaphobe, nothing would make me happier.
Let's do that. As Afroman would say, "fuck McDonalds and Taco Bell."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (F5+ro)
McDonalds in Japan.
Even on the Navy base, it was the best, cleanest and most professional Fast Food I ever had.
And I spent thirty years trying to hit every McDonalds in as many countries as I possibly could.
Haifa was pretty damn good as well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: Kid behind you in line at June 13, 2018 06:10 PM (UdKB7)
For Gods sake! NO it doesn't take checks!
Posted by: Cheery kiosk Helper
How about this expired five cent off coupon?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (9uM86)
Originally the cups were out next to the kiosk, which meant "Maravilloso! Tazas gratiss!" so they'd stock up and not have to go to Costco. So, now you order at the kiosk, and have to go to the counter to wait in line and ask for a friggin' cup.
Then, you've got to enter the number you're taking - a stack of numbers like you place on the table. Then they bring you your order. If you order at the counter, they give you your number on the receipt and you have to go get the order as usual. Order at a kiosk and they come find you.
Posted by: clutch cargo at June 13, 2018 06:14 PM (RHEDC)
Posted by: Mega at June 13, 2018 06:14 PM (rv0Fo)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 06:11 PM (roQNm)
So do I!
Posted by: Chicken neck looking guy or some shit. at June 13, 2018 06:14 PM (2CQCl)
Met them at the Village Idiot last evening for soup and pie, and some fool had drawn a dick and balls on the back of their Jeep in the dust. They hadn't noticed.
What in hell is wrong with people?
So I surreptitiously wiped it off, or at least smeared it around.
They have enough trouble with swiping, let alone inserting the chip. Don't ask them to push the buttons for food from 100 choices.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:14 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM
Unpossible. Our generation is the one that invented sex!
Posted by: The Millennials at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (0/+vJ)
I was just being funny, I wouldn't expect people to know what "chicken head" means.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (F5+ro)
I think it's time for an extended highlighted blog post about nothing but what a worthless piece of traitorous shit Rick Wilson is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:14 PM (7UW64)
If I make 90 - I'm drawing the dick and balls on my own vehicle. Just because.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (fiGNd)
Each one missing the meat patty.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (JFO2v)
Nobody spits in your food at a fast food chain anymore.
Those kitchens are wall to wall cameras for QA. They'd be stopped and yanked out of the kitchen immediately.
Now your typical muckity-muck $30 a plate restaurant? THOSE are the assholes doing nasty things with the nicoise.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 06:08 PM (BRvh1)
Well, that's good to know, since I tend to eat fast food rather than at the muckety-muck places.
I usually start scrolling when comments of that nature get too detailed. Ignorance is bliss.
Posted by: rickl at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (sdi6R)
"Please put down your weapon. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY"
Posted by: Mega at June 13, 2018 06:17 PM (rv0Fo)
Posted by: Kid behind you in line
For a while, yes. But after a while, those who are intimidated will self-select away from the kiosks. That's what I'm seeing with grocery checkouts.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 13, 2018 06:17 PM (2xR5z)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 13, 2018 06:13 PM (VgKNm)
True moron right here.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 13, 2018 06:17 PM (2CQCl)
Posted by: freaked at June 13, 2018 06:17 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (EyPfd)
U dont eat meat U dont eat meat Thats OK I make u lamb
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 13, 2018 06:17 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: goon at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (PEcU2)
Posted by: Skip at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (pHfeF)
Each one missing the meat patty.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (EyPfd)
Lucky Bastard !!!
Posted by: Hindu in the Earlier Post at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:14 PM
Och, that's known as the twig and berries over here, lass.
Posted by: Formerly Great Britain at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (ctuyM)
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Yeah! Run with that Dems/Hollywood! Run with that!
Posted by: Axeman at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (vDqXW)
Here's a take no one made yet: It will be nice not to get sick while we order our food looking at the zit faced kid with piercings, tattoos, and huge holes in their earlobes.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 06:09 PM (qqDHc)
I once worked with a girl who said when she worked at Burger King she had a stomach flu and called in sick. They told her they couldn't find anybody to fill her shift so she had to work. So there she was, flipping burgers and vomiting into the bucket next to the grill.
I wonder how many people got sick that day.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (h2Bdk)
They still put an employee out front, to help with orders in case you have problems...
Posted by: Don Q at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (NgKpN)
I FAIL TO SEE THE PROBLEM IT IS A SUBSTANCE BETWEEN BUN AND CHEESE IS BETWEEN BUN
-idiots who promulgated the term "turkey burger"
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (HtLSE)
Posted by: Skip at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (pHfeF)
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I'd hit it.
Posted by: Michael Moore at June 13, 2018 06:19 PM (vDqXW)
"yes, every pea in its place, don't you just know someone's fingers have been all over your dinner"
Posted by: Miklos, just Miklos at June 13, 2018 06:19 PM (zCyNd)
Wegmans has that huge drink machine shaped vaguely like an old red refrigerator.
Giant touch screen, and over 250 different types and flavors to choose from.
Yeh, Granny ain't doing that one real well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 13, 2018 06:19 PM (EyPfd)
Posted by: goon at June 13, 2018 06:19 PM (PEcU2)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 06:19 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (fiGNd)
Fuckin' Scogg. LMAO.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 13, 2018 06:19 PM (2CQCl)
Posted by: freaked at June 13, 2018 06:17 PM (UdKB7)
I hate the drink machine. I don't want to have to touch a disgusting communal iPad to get a cup of coca cola. I liked the other way, where I would use the center of the cup to push in the thing and then soda dispensed in to said cup.
It was a good system.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 06:20 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 13, 2018 06:17 PM (JFO2v)
Endorsed.
Posted by: U Thant at June 13, 2018 06:20 PM (zCyNd)
Each one missing the meat patty.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (EyPfd)
Lucky Bastard !!!
Posted by: Hindu in the Earlier Post at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (fiGNd)
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No doubt!
Posted by: Yorkshire Man -- cut off at June 13, 2018 06:20 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Kid behind you in line at June 13, 2018 06:10 PM (UdKB7)
Nope! Most will help. They all have grandmas and pas. Most will ask them what they want and make sure the order is right. Kids are ok. Adults suck.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 13, 2018 06:20 PM (JFO2v)
People don't realize MCD has been working on automation and speed for fifty years.
They will eventually have kiosks. And eventually they'll be pretty damned good.
If you can post here with decent grammar you could run a MCD register today with 2 minutes of how to - they are that easy.
To those concerned about credit cards being required - 13 years ago when I started working for MCD 70 odd percent of all transactions were cashless. (Credit or debit card.) Today I bet it's in the 90s
Posted by: FrozenTech at June 13, 2018 06:20 PM (5iJfd)
I knew that you really didn't want job doing the translation of the newest terms for sex acts for older people.
I am a visual person so when I hear "Built like a chicken head" I think of someone wearing a floor length costume of an actual chicken head. (Cluck! Cluck!) which is funnier to me to think about than some person bobbing back and forth doing fellatio.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 06:20 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (fiGNd)
Probably in glorious 3D rendering, too.
Honestly, what is the excitement over that particular image? Who the hell is putting that on some old dude's car?
If I caught the little bastard, I'd have drawn the same damned thing on his forehead with a Sharpy.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:20 PM (7UW64)
In the year 2025, robots at McDonald's will have zits, tattoos, and piercings.
It's the just the way evolution works in this stupid world we live in.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 06:21 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 06:21 PM (BRvh1)
"Please put down your weapon. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY"
Alternately "THIS IS A POLICE CONTROL. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE YELLOW CIRCLES"
Posted by: Sporkatus at June 13, 2018 06:21 PM (HtLSE)
Posted by: freaked at June 13, 2018 06:21 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (JFO2v)
Ikea has a self serve coffee machone. It does basic cappuccinos and stuff.
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 13, 2018 06:21 PM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Cousin Eddie at June 13, 2018 06:21 PM (ICWiF)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (fiGNd)
LOL. As long as you're not wandering around the parking lot trying to find your lost car. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 13, 2018 06:22 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: goon at June 13, 2018 06:22 PM (PEcU2)
What they gave him was a hamburger bun with ketchup, mustard, pickle and a little lettuce.
The Hindu looking guy was PISSED!
For some reason, I'm thinking it was a Burger King where they 'do it your way.'
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 06:11 PM (roQNm)
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More than once, a relative of mine ordered a plain McD cheeseburger without the burger. I suppose it made a decent toasted cheese since the bun was still hot from the toaster when the cheese was added.
Posted by: RioBravo at June 13, 2018 06:22 PM (iQKgg)
It's the just the way evolution works in this stupid world we live in.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 06:21 PM (qqDHc)
Five hundred years later, the Robots will decide to create artificial, organic, self-replicating, intelligent life forms to act as order-takers in their Circuit-Burger restaurants. For the sake of efficiency.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 06:22 PM (BRvh1)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:16 PM (fiGNd)
With that little dribble always just there. Not enough to change drawers but enough to know which way the wind is bowing.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 13, 2018 06:23 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 13, 2018 06:23 PM (F5+ro)
You wanna bet? We've got people with high school diplomas who have barely mastered third grade. The local school board agreed at a public meeting that at least one third of the students would never achieve grade level but would graduate anyway because - why not?
Posted by: Call me Ishmael at June 13, 2018 06:23 PM (9X60i)
Posted by: Formerly Great Britain at June 13, 2018 06:18 PM (ctuyM)
T'weren't any damned twig. That thing was more like a log.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:23 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 13, 2018 06:23 PM (++G28)
Posted by: rickb223
ha, well that might be another ten years. But drone home delivery for an extra couple bucks? That would be fun.
Or at least drone delivery to my car as I pull in their lot ... I'll let them track my vehicle, have order ready as I arrive ... zoom zoom zoom. It's been a few years since I had fast food at all, but that might bring me back.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 13, 2018 06:24 PM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 13, 2018 06:24 PM (qqDHc)
Posted by: FrozenTech at June 13, 2018 06:20 PM (5iJfd)
Dude...grammar? I'm out. Next they'll be math.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 13, 2018 06:24 PM (2CQCl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 13, 2018 06:24 PM (cpLq8)
Posted by: golfman at June 13, 2018 06:24 PM (If3tB)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 13, 2018 06:20 PM (7UW64)
Please stop.
I'm at home at my desk ... and I don't know why ... but I'm laughing my ass off at this. My wife is looking at me weird.
Your parents were probably giggling. "Look ... tcn's wiping it off !!!"
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 13, 2018 06:24 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 06:21 PM (BRvh1)
That's a nice thing about Five Guys. They prepare the food in full view of the customers. I did have to ask for help with the drink machine, though.
Posted by: rickl at June 13, 2018 06:24 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: freaked at June 13, 2018 06:21 PM (UdKB7)
You're supposed to mix the Coke with the Cherry, and maybe some Sprite.
Posted by: 9 year old Miklos at June 13, 2018 06:24 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 13, 2018 05:27
I was so naïve in my early HS yrs I thought a nickel bag cost 5 cents. LOL
Posted by: Farmer at June 13, 2018 06:25 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Sumdumchief at June 13, 2018 06:25 PM (+KpqJ)
What burger has least impact on my soul?
IHOb waitress: any of em, no cows harmed.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 13, 2018 06:26 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: William falling down Foster at June 13, 2018 06:26 PM (ICWiF)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 13, 2018 06:27 PM (XG2zl)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yaqdhy4c
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at June 13, 2018 06:01 PM (hMwEB)
I can hoist a jack, I can lay a track. I'll do anything you hire me to.
Posted by: John Henry, A Steel Drivin' Man at June 13, 2018 06:27 PM (4C0+v)
mostly its all meh.
Posted by: micky at June 13, 2018 06:27 PM (dF9Lb)
Just how many Cuomos are there anyway?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 13, 2018 06:30 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 13, 2018 06:31 PM (Tyii7)
Do engines get rewarded for their steam?
Posted by: John Henry, A Burger Flippin' Man at June 13, 2018 06:33 PM (4C0+v)
Also, there are certain customizations you can't make at the kiosk. For example, maybe you like Egg McMuffins but don't like egg yolks. You can ask the cashier to substitute the folded egg that comes with a McGriddle, but you can't have the kiosk do that.
Posted by: Rick C at June 13, 2018 06:38 PM (ITnFO)
Yeah, but they can cut the number of order-takers from seven or eight to just one.
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 13, 2018 06:41 PM (h2Bdk)
For example, maybe you like Egg McMuffins but don't like egg yolks. You can ask the cashier to substitute the folded egg that comes with a McGriddle, but you can't have the kiosk do that.
Posted by: Rick C at June 13, 2018 06:38 PM (ITnFO)
At Chick-fil-A, one of their breakfast sandwiches is an Egg White Grill. Not being afraid of cholesterol, I asked the cashier if I could get one with a whole egg. She said, "Sure, just ask for it." Turns out it's 20 cents cheaper than the egg white version.
Posted by: rickl at June 13, 2018 06:48 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2018 06:08 PM (BRvh1)
God, I miss the old days!
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 13, 2018 06:52 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2018 05:57
And thank you for saying what I was thinking reading some of these comments. People did survive before disinfectant wipes. Heck, they even had farm animals living in their homes in some circumstances.
Posted by: Farmer at June 13, 2018 07:18 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Kiosk Katey, Robosexual at June 13, 2018 08:21 PM (y09j5)
The big problem is that McDonalds has expanded its menu at the cost of quality. Their hamburgers back in the day were okay. Now they are awful. Same with their fries, their shakes, etc.
You want a goo burger--Go to 5 guys or In-and-Out. No damn McRibs or twizler Sundaes. Just good burgers, fries and shakes.
McDonalds is dying man...dying
Posted by: KasperHauserinLondon at June 13, 2018 10:30 PM (k/llo)
At least it should cut down the number of idiots complaining the order-taker got their order wrong when they're their own order-taker.
Posted by: BobM at June 13, 2018 10:44 PM (1aAnw)
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corporate fries are going way downhill. even 5 guys has some sort of weird internal texture.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 13, 2018 11:50 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: RokShox at June 14, 2018 02:46 AM (yehh7)
Posted by: MoJoeTee at June 14, 2018 07:07 AM (bpfI3)
At least in the past, the kids working at Mickey D's got the experience of customer service, of handling cash, of using a register. Usable skills that actually translated up the chain at least a little bit.
No more.
Posted by: malcolm Tex at June 14, 2018 11:10 AM (GSJcT)
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