The Future Of Fast Food: Robots All The Way Down
Hi guys.
In a previous post I talked about how the push for a minimum wage of $15/hour for fast food workers forces companies to modernize and replace workers with robots:
In which I had this exchange with @timcrypto
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This will be a reality within the next 5 years
Frankly, the 5 year timeline is very conservative: I think it will happen within the next 2 years.
When you take a moment to consider all of the advantages of a fully automatic, flying distribution system for fast food, the first company to do this will rake in billions in revenue and every other fast food service will quickly adapt.
Efficiency
Humans make errors.
Employees can do bad jobs. They can come in late or call in sick. They can give you lip or slack off. They can spit in your food out of spite. They get your order wrong.
In the system I foresee, each major city region will have a distribution center staffed with burger making robots which will make your order perfectly, send it to a drone delivery system, and dropped off at your destination of choice.
Companies will no longer have to staff dozens of employees per location -- probably just a handful per distribution center -- which will save on so much overhead that machine and software maintenance will be a welcome expense by comparison.
The product will be much more consistent and reliable, with virtually no bottleneck of human error.
Speed
Machines will be able to make your order and fly it by drone to any location within a matter of minutes.
The amount of time you would normally wait for an order to fulfill at the diner would be the amount of time it will take this system to not only make your order but deliver it to you.
Convenience
Ordering via app makes it so you don't even need to come in to a location or call -- the kiosk will be in the palm of your hands.
You can order from home and have a cute little drone drop off your food within minutes. Or you could place an order to arrive at a specific time, on a specific day, for convenient planning.
Improved communities
I can imagine a scenario where these services will not operate in bad neighborhoods.
You don't want to fly drones in a place where people are going to shoot them down or steal them or the food.
So communities will have to improve themselves in order to get this kind of service, and I think that might become apparent as the technology evolves.
Even with the risk of theft or property damage, this service would be much cheaper than the current system.
What do you think?
Does this sound like the future, or am I crazy?
Tell me in the comments below what you think. Would you sooner order fast food from a robot/drone system or from a minimum wage worker?
Let me know :D
I'm hungry, wish I could order this way now...
Hungry again..got the munchies..
Will these robots/machines have to pay taxes? Seems unfair.
Bill Gates suggested that. He is out of he's mind though.
All taxes are unfair..
Why would you want to compete for tasks a machine could do anyways? Fill your time with something meaningful instead :)
Taxation is theft
Automation will cause a massive disruption in every field. 99% of people probably does not realise the gravity of this threat.
First it will take the simple jobs, transportation, manufacturing etc. Then as time goes on AI and better software will take over a lot of the "brainwork" aswel.
So far we have been living in a world where humans are essential for I/O when working with tech. Now that everything will be digital, we're no longer essential.
Hopefully all this will result great human capital being unlocked, imagine how much time is wasted doing simple menial tasks.
Exciting times.
Correct!
I think you're right.. the status quo that most of us have been used to for years is about to be disrupted. We are in the transitional phase now where AIs are becoming more mainstream and soon will take over more tasks than we all realize. Things will probably get worse for us first before the new reality kicks in!
You are crazy..but that is a good thing ;) I think we will start to see Starship delivery bots first. The drone system hasn't been perfected so it may come later.
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Surely it is a very effective way to consume fasterFast Food and destroy the people's health even faster.
nice job man
I agree.
Makes you wonder about the motives of those who oppose it?
good post
Yep, you are definitely crazy. :-p
And this would definitely be the future if we were to continue on this path.
The path being a mixture of:
All of these put together would inevitably end up with robots doing everything in a McDs. Humans will be merely for decoration / ornamental purposes, like taking the food from the robot-cook to the customer.
However, I do not believe in the future of this paradigm.
Every single one of my bullet points is under serious attack.
The cracks are already starting to form.
I believe that McDs will do the whole robot thing, just as humanity moves to an Air-lunch-n-conversation model. And McDs will abandoned.