Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are actually assisted by off-site human workers.

A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time::Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are actually assisted by off-site human workers.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•5 months ago

    You can’t just choose the individual items that make up a meal. If you do that, it ~doesn’t work and you have to delete them all and start again~ makes the franchisee an extra $2 profit!

    Cha-ching!

    • Echo DotEnglish
      -1•5 months ago

      But McDonald’s are the ones who make the interface. So there’s no reason for them to want the franchise to make more money. So I think it’s just a matter of crappy design.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 months ago

        Maybe for the 5% of locations which are company owned? And to satisfy franchisees, who probably already like that people who order items separately at the registers pay more (provided employees don’t help out and combine them).

        Their mobile app is hands down the most advanced in the US fast food space, so they def have the tech know how.

        But definitely just speculating :)

        • @[email protected]English
          2•5 months ago

          I’m 100% never going to download an app for a restaurant. I atopped getting my free World Series Taco from Taco Bell the year they required the app.