{"id":135298,"date":"2022-02-06T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/mcdonalds-is-replacing-human-drive-thru-attendants-with-ai"},"modified":"2022-02-06T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T05:22:17","slug":"mcdonalds-is-replacing-human-drive-thru-attendants-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/mcdonalds-is-replacing-human-drive-thru-attendants-with-ai","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s is replacing human drive-thru attendants with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mcdonalds-is-replacing-human-drive-thru-attendants-with-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As if drive-through ordering wasn\u2019t frustrating enough already, now we might have a Siri-like AI to contend with. McDonald\u2019s just rolled out a voice recognition system at 10 drive-throughs in Chicago, expanding from the solitary test store they launched a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But when will it come to your neighborhood Golden Arches?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a big leap between going from 10 restaurants in Chicago to 14,000 restaurants across the U.S. with an infinite number of promo permutations, menu permutations, dialect permutations, weather \u2014 I mean, on and on and on and on,\u201d admitted McDonald\u2019s CEO Chris Kempczinski, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrn.com\/quick-service\/mcdonald-s-tests-automated-drive-thru-order-taking-chicago-area\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> Nation\u2019s Restaurant News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if drive-through ordering wasn\u2019t frustrating enough already, now we might have a Siri-like AI to contend with. McDonald\u2019s just rolled out a voice recognition system at 10 drive-throughs in Chicago, expanding from the solitary test store they launched a few years ago. But when will it come to your neighborhood Golden Arches? \u201cThere is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}