alyaza
@alyaza
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warc
@warc

ive been saying for years that what the drive-thru experience needs is an un-inspectable, unsanitary, damp underground tunnel flavor.


dieting-hippo
@dieting-hippo

going to order a 10-patty baconator at the Wendys Tube, then ask for a bunch of large chocolate frostys and drive away while the baconator clog pops and spews frosty everywhere


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in reply to @alyaza's post:

I don't understand what this even improves for anyone. It says they still need to talk to an employee, and someone needs to put their order in the transporter. How is this better than the drive-thru? And why do we need autonomous robots - couldn't something on rails do the same job? They're working with some third-party startup so the whole thing smells like gimmicky bullshit designed to be VC-bait.

This makes it so they don't have to handle all drive through orders as a single queue. For inside orders everything is set up to parallelize well already, if it weren't for the drive through lane people could get served quicker theoretically.

But practically it adds a lot of techno junk that can fail, and people can fail to understand, like you say, it might not actually turn out better for everyone as these things go.

I hate this so much.

This is just so utterly lacking in both imagination or technical rigor.

I think the part I am most incised about here is that on top of being impractical and poorly thought out it's all about hiding the mechanism. Why wouldn't you just build this above ground. This could be like Food Loop / Rollercoaster Restaurants but for drive through and instead it's just 1970's drive thru banking for your food, christ.

in reply to @warc's post:

listen, people can't stop stuffing trash in the "this is not for trash this is the donation slot for dave thomas's fund for adoptees, orphans, foster children, hey remember that guy, please don't put your frosty spoon wrappers and cigarettes in here, please?" slot under the drive thrugh window

these have no choice to survive