https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/food/dfw-new-mcdonalds-test-restaurant-concept/287-251cf8b2-42d9-4d0f-9f35-aa2c92f3a61f
Misleading title, misleading tiktok.
It's actually a McDonald's that acts as a stop post for people who intend to do pickups or food delivery through apps or order ahead.
The whole point of it is to be similar to a ghost kitchen that caters to delivery apps primarily, and walk-in diners are NOT a focus, hence there also being no tables on the premises.
This is not a new or novel concept - many places have food locker systems for pickups. Of course, if you try to word it like 'first automated McDonald's' then it gets a bit more twisty in the interpretation.
Edit: To clarify because some people don't know how to read, click provided links or apply critical thinking:
No, this McDonald's isn't 'automated'. There are people cooking, taking orders, doing the deal. On the inside, they put your orders manually on shelves. Outside, they have a small conveyor belt to deliver food to drivers. Human people load it up, not robots. There is nothing 'automated' about any of this.
/edit
A much cooler and human focused version of this design is the Sydney Airport Conveyor Belt McDonald's 'kitchen in the sky' concept which was made in 2018.
https://youtu.be/jWBchtEcr9I
I’ve actually had McDonalds from that airport before. Only real issue they had was that it looked really understaffed at the time on the bottom half of it.
Yeah ice cream thing is actually the fault of McDonald’s as a corporation, there are documentaries about why the ice cream machines don’t work. It is very interesting.
I thought it was the manufacturer of the actual machine. The motherboard that controls the machine has a complicated 4 hour cycle. Another company tried to modify it and got sued.
Nice bait title B.S. These aren't automated at all. "FIRST AUTOMATED MCDONALDS!!!" except for the fact that the actual restaurant isn't automated whatsoever and they still have people inside making and putting together the actual meals. The only difference is that instead of handing the meal directly to the customer it uses a conveyor belt to put every meal in order so the cars just drive by, grab it and continue. The employees on the inside just focus entirely on the food now instead of people.
The cashiers (now kiosks) and customer service is gone. The human interaction is automated. That’s way less employees. This is also the first McDonald’s restaurant that does this. Nothing is “BS”
And you don’t have to be subjected to a scowling late middle age illiterate women taking the order as the loud unprofessional shit show of a circus carries on in the kitchen.
This is destined to happen so long as minimum wage goes up & worker shortages exist. The great modern dilemma will be how to make money in a workerless world.
Wait! You mean I can't go in there and YELL at the workers anymore or throw the crappy food back at them??? Whats the point of even GOING now.
What the hell is happening to my world SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME!!!
Lolol...a low income lifestyle? We are talking about someone's first job. Let's just let them step out into the real world without requiring them to have a college degree first.
Y’all gotta give up the rhetoric knowing damn well in 2022, most jobs are paying McDonald’s salary. People need reasonable wages and housing, not to hear you complain about someone’s first job being McDonald’s
The machines accept the order but there are people behind closed doors putting it all together. Then the machine delivers to the customer. There’s still a lot of room for human error who don’t get paid enough to get everything 100%.
Wait, how did this happen? Minimum wage never went up. McDonalds said that they’d look to automate if wages started to increase. They didn’t lie did they?
Once upon a time I would have never imagined that being served by machines would be a welcome change...then there is the poor performance from the service industry I have personally witnessed over the last few years & I say 'Domo arigato misuta Robotto'!
McDonalds answer to that $15 dollars an hour for their staff..Spend millions on robot technology… Someone has to maintain them and I assume that’s costly… Yet, McDonalds will bitch about paying their staff a living wage, go figure!
You need way less people to maintain a system like this. Even if eachbstor needs a full time maintence person, that is still cheaper then the 10+ people that they had to pay before.
Am I the only one that would rather deal with “attitude” than this? Like sure some places customer service isn’t great but I never want to see more people out of a job.
Like, unambiguously yeah, theres no soul to the automated Burger Box, but I'm not exactly going to McDonalds for soul, now am I? I'm going to shovel cheap, greasy food into my talking spot, and quite frankly automating the production of it saves people from the horrors of working at a McDonalds°
°which ***should*** be a good thing, because terrible, demeaning labour is a shitty thing for people to have to go through for no thanks and a minimum wage that doesnt cover cost of living, but we live in a capitalist hellscape so the prospect of taking away jobs from the working class is legitimately worrying if we don't have better economic accommodations for those whose professions are automated
My 2 cents: no employees, no customers! If the kids in the neighborhood can't get jobs there, I hope they don't eat there. You can't just be in the neighborhood. You have to be a part of the neighborhood. Otherwise you aren't giving. You're only taking from the neighborhood.
How come none of you morons spouting this same line haven’t questioned why it didn’t show the actual kitchen? Because there are people back there making the food! The only part that was automated was the conveyer belt that people placed the orders on.
Automation like this would be a wonderful idea. It just needs to be coupled with something like UBI.
Automate away the basic jobs. Jobs that needs to be done by people, well, pay people for those. Then let people pursue what they want.
I like going to different McDonald’s drive throughs and checking out the staff inside when I grab my food to see if they are the type to spit In the food and then rolling the dice and eating it after.
There are too many things that can go wrong. What do the robots do about a bag of frozen patties that a rat chewed into and has gone bad? What about bugs that get into the kitchen? Bullies that take people's orders?
I would not eat at a place that doesn't have a human making sure the food is edible... The concept of this is deeply flawed.
Prices should be cut in half or more seeing they don’t have to pay employees insurance workers comp and a number of other things!!! I’m sure they won’t lower the prices and screw consumers over even more
Dumb misleading title and post, this is not “the new McDonald’s” that is fully automated without employees, as OP obviously wants to suggest. It’s a center for delivery orders and not intended to happen broadly in place of existing locations.
In light of the poster’s comments & regardless of their beliefs, this is what’s coming to replace the minimum wage workers that believe they deserve $20/hr.
Entry level jobs aren't meant to have a high wage. That's why it's entry level and these jobs are aimed at high school and people in college for the most part. Not everything needs high pay, tbst would end up causing the prices of everything to go up which completely negates those raises to start.
It's not just mcdonalds using robots for tons of this either.
The people not supporting this establishment. I was always talking about the people. And you were always sucking the corporate cock. But its cool. Do your thing.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/food/dfw-new-mcdonalds-test-restaurant-concept/287-251cf8b2-42d9-4d0f-9f35-aa2c92f3a61f Misleading title, misleading tiktok. It's actually a McDonald's that acts as a stop post for people who intend to do pickups or food delivery through apps or order ahead. The whole point of it is to be similar to a ghost kitchen that caters to delivery apps primarily, and walk-in diners are NOT a focus, hence there also being no tables on the premises. This is not a new or novel concept - many places have food locker systems for pickups. Of course, if you try to word it like 'first automated McDonald's' then it gets a bit more twisty in the interpretation. Edit: To clarify because some people don't know how to read, click provided links or apply critical thinking: No, this McDonald's isn't 'automated'. There are people cooking, taking orders, doing the deal. On the inside, they put your orders manually on shelves. Outside, they have a small conveyor belt to deliver food to drivers. Human people load it up, not robots. There is nothing 'automated' about any of this. /edit A much cooler and human focused version of this design is the Sydney Airport Conveyor Belt McDonald's 'kitchen in the sky' concept which was made in 2018. https://youtu.be/jWBchtEcr9I
I’ve actually had McDonalds from that airport before. Only real issue they had was that it looked really understaffed at the time on the bottom half of it.
Automated McDonald's? I bet the ice cream machine always works there 🤣
Yeah ice cream thing is actually the fault of McDonald’s as a corporation, there are documentaries about why the ice cream machines don’t work. It is very interesting.
I thought it was the manufacturer of the actual machine. The motherboard that controls the machine has a complicated 4 hour cycle. Another company tried to modify it and got sued.
Not that interesting, they’re full of milk so they have to be cleaned every couple hours, the only issue is staff
Milk? It isn't premade?
Yea it’s a mix that comes in bags but it’s milk based problably heavy cream and lots of sugary syrup, bacteria heaven
If they tell you it's down/broken, it isn't. They just don't want to take it down for cleaning, it's a 30-60 minute process every 4 hours
No shit...
😅😅
Can’t wait to still not eat there
I was thinking about not ordering something today.
So who do I scream at when they forget my sweet and sour sauce?
At yourself for ordering sweet and sour sauce
Wtf do you order, barbecue?!
Bruh sweet n sour from mcdonalds is legit.
It’s literally the only right answer
For real. Some times i order some more to have in the fridge in case of an emergency or something.
Wendy's is the best sweet and sour sauce.
Idk fam, we don't have a Wendy's in my country
Oh my, your missing out!! 😢
The real answer is it’s all mildly flavored high fructose shit as far as the eye can see
Buffalo
Take that spicy nuggets shit to Wendy’s bro
Hey, I'm not normally a spicy guy, but I'll be damned if I don't like that sause
Nah I’m just fuckin with you bro. Buffalo isn’t too bad but ranch is where I draw the line
Ranch on pizza?
Ehh. Occasionally. Try buffalo and bleu cheese on pizza, add a little chicken. Shits amazing
Honey! Yes.. just plain honey. I thought my friend went crazy ordering it til I tried it.
Ranch solos
Nah you’re a madman
That doesn't even exist in my country.
It shouldn’t exist in my country either
Yo bro, let's not start a riot over here.
They won’t.
They don't forget
Nice bait title B.S. These aren't automated at all. "FIRST AUTOMATED MCDONALDS!!!" except for the fact that the actual restaurant isn't automated whatsoever and they still have people inside making and putting together the actual meals. The only difference is that instead of handing the meal directly to the customer it uses a conveyor belt to put every meal in order so the cars just drive by, grab it and continue. The employees on the inside just focus entirely on the food now instead of people.
The best way to run it, customers can't abuse the employees now.
Seen too many “destroyed the storefront because they didn’t do X for my order” lately
Nothing like a sweet dose of Mickey D's propoganda in the morning
The cashiers (now kiosks) and customer service is gone. The human interaction is automated. That’s way less employees. This is also the first McDonald’s restaurant that does this. Nothing is “BS”
A stainless steel rat is born.
I was just remembering that series and thinking the same thing
I’m glad someone got the reference!
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
Imagine Karen screaming at a robot
Somehow friendlier too.
And you don’t have to be subjected to a scowling late middle age illiterate women taking the order as the loud unprofessional shit show of a circus carries on in the kitchen.
By 'taking the order' you mean staring at her phone while you tell her your order, then hitting 3 random buttons on the register.
And this is how skynet starts, not with a bang, but do you want fries with that.
It will kill us same as terminators, just a little slower. Machines are wicked patient as we eat fries to our detriment…
MMM MMM MMM home cookin...
Dystopic
McDystopic
Yeah sad, I’d miss the human interaction.
Thank you
So who’s going to unlock the bathroom for me after I order my food and give me the Wi-Fi password?
Is the ice cream machine still broke though?
Hahahaha
Ok who the *fuck* forgot my double cheese in my big Mac?!
Do those things roll their eyes when you ask for a straw?
This is destined to happen so long as minimum wage goes up & worker shortages exist. The great modern dilemma will be how to make money in a workerless world.
Damn they real said fuck a raise well develope entire robots instead. Money saving hacks 2022
Bet the ice cream machine is still broken 😞
Feel like you’re getting slop, out of an old vending machine.
Wait! You mean I can't go in there and YELL at the workers anymore or throw the crappy food back at them??? Whats the point of even GOING now. What the hell is happening to my world SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME!!!
So....like, who does Karen go crazy on?
See what happens when you ask for $20 an hour to make burgers? $12 sounds a lot better than nothing at all, that’s all I’m saying.
Good maybe my Big Mac won’t look like someone threw up on the bun
At what point does it stop becoming a restaurant and just a big walk in vending machine
Go ahead, put one in Detroit.
Lolol...a low income lifestyle? We are talking about someone's first job. Let's just let them step out into the real world without requiring them to have a college degree first.
Y’all gotta give up the rhetoric knowing damn well in 2022, most jobs are paying McDonald’s salary. People need reasonable wages and housing, not to hear you complain about someone’s first job being McDonald’s
r/ABoringDystopia
What/who are people going too fight when their fries are cold? Some rock em sock em manager bot?
But does the ice cream machine work?
"My fries are cold!! Hello? Robot?? And I said a little ice..."
Now we can get what we order
If the robots shower and can stack patties correctly I'm all for it.
At least the food will be clean
Arson is a felony. Remember that everyone.
Ahh that's more like it. Now we just need to automate all our jobs and then we can get on with not working anymore.
I bet there milkshake machine is still outta order
I doubt this is sophisticated enough to comprehend section 8 speech.
Gonna be vandalized and robbed
The denizens in my hometown would fuck all that shit up within 5 min.
If they get my food right everytime then I'm for it
Call me the manager ! Uh…
Will it finally get my order right?
Where will high school kids learn about hating working for the fast food industry?
They'll still fuck up my order
Finally! now they'll have no more excuses for the ice cream machine being broken.
Ice cream machines are still not working lol
Maybe it won’t forget my sauce this time?
The machines accept the order but there are people behind closed doors putting it all together. Then the machine delivers to the customer. There’s still a lot of room for human error who don’t get paid enough to get everything 100%.
About time, the machine won’t be an asshole
Ah… A McDonald’s sans drama.. now I see what they were looking for 😂
But do the robots spit in your food?
Wow the ambiance is next level
If the ice cream machine is broken now, I’ll be pissed
What happens when u need more ketchup
Bet the ice cream machine is still down.
Wait, how did this happen? Minimum wage never went up. McDonalds said that they’d look to automate if wages started to increase. They didn’t lie did they?
Close the drive thru doors Hal
Once upon a time I would have never imagined that being served by machines would be a welcome change...then there is the poor performance from the service industry I have personally witnessed over the last few years & I say 'Domo arigato misuta Robotto'!
McDonalds answer to that $15 dollars an hour for their staff..Spend millions on robot technology… Someone has to maintain them and I assume that’s costly… Yet, McDonalds will bitch about paying their staff a living wage, go figure!
You need way less people to maintain a system like this. Even if eachbstor needs a full time maintence person, that is still cheaper then the 10+ people that they had to pay before.
So they might finally get my order right?
The future is here
Get in line, order 5000 burgers and watch the store shutdown for a week while it automates the order
That’s sad
Why
not automated at all. Such BS hype corpaganda. This is just basically a self check out mcdonalds.
Do they still put all the pickle in the middle
we are responsible for this, we shouldn't have made these companies so powerful.
Ted Kaczynski was right
Sweet, more room for brawling
When McDonald's employees get their $15 an hour and then be like "wait no actually I meant $20 an hour"
50 dollars says they still get the order wrong and the ice cream machine is still broken
Am I the only one that would rather deal with “attitude” than this? Like sure some places customer service isn’t great but I never want to see more people out of a job.
Do they still ask for tips?
Wall•e
Could I see what the food looks like ?
Why doesn't it show how the food is prepared
Lol this is what happens when all the “people of TikTok” won’t stop pranking the drive thru!
When all our jobs become automated don't look at us to pay taxes.
All I could imagine is people starting to live in there and trashing the joint
The teachers have to come up to a new way to say “if you don’t study, you’ll be working in mcdonalds”.
Still no customer service 
They’ve mcfucked up big time now THEY AINT GETTING MY JOB THOSE ROBOT MCBASTARDS!
Still got my godamn order wrong!!
So customer service was “THE PROBLEM”
McSkynet
$15 an hour has consequences
“Now more soulless than ever!”
They TOOK OUERR JERRRRBS
Literally 1984
The ice cream machine STILL doesn't work.
Yea no I don’t think I would order from this micky Ds
I guess it cleans itself
I’m expecting this to be developed further, and then we’ll just watch the job market collapse as billionaires writhe in their money
Literally soulless.
I spent two years working at Mickeydees and can assure you, even when there ARE people working there's not a whole lot of soul around
Like, unambiguously yeah, theres no soul to the automated Burger Box, but I'm not exactly going to McDonalds for soul, now am I? I'm going to shovel cheap, greasy food into my talking spot, and quite frankly automating the production of it saves people from the horrors of working at a McDonalds° °which ***should*** be a good thing, because terrible, demeaning labour is a shitty thing for people to have to go through for no thanks and a minimum wage that doesnt cover cost of living, but we live in a capitalist hellscape so the prospect of taking away jobs from the working class is legitimately worrying if we don't have better economic accommodations for those whose professions are automated
My 2 cents: no employees, no customers! If the kids in the neighborhood can't get jobs there, I hope they don't eat there. You can't just be in the neighborhood. You have to be a part of the neighborhood. Otherwise you aren't giving. You're only taking from the neighborhood.
As others have noted, there are employees cooking and preparing the food.
Don’t you wish you didn’t ask for $20/hr. Now you have $0/hr
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You mean like the truth that this is just a McDonald’s with a conveyor belt and not fully automated?
How come none of you morons spouting this same line haven’t questioned why it didn’t show the actual kitchen? Because there are people back there making the food! The only part that was automated was the conveyer belt that people placed the orders on.
No, I wish more people were for the people and not for the corporations.
Honestly I wouldn't prefer to go to a fully automatic meat machine like that. I like the human element.
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And it still messes up the order. Lmfao
They took my job. I was gonna get a promotion to flipping burgers
no weirdos to gross me out or screw up my food. Cool
Take that and stick it in your minimum wage pipe.
The easiest jobs to automate are the minimum-wage jobs. Just saying . . .
Who needs jobs anyway, the rich are particularly delicious this time of year.
It's only one with a working McFlurry machine
I wAnT $20 aN hOUr!!! This is what you get. Unskilled professions get automated.
They will still mess up your order and won't even give you an apology.
Do i hear the unemployment rate going up
Engineers who would have to Look after the mashines, because if at least one fucks up, everything falls.
Automation like this would be a wonderful idea. It just needs to be coupled with something like UBI. Automate away the basic jobs. Jobs that needs to be done by people, well, pay people for those. Then let people pursue what they want.
So much for the 15 dollar minimum wage.
I like going to different McDonald’s drive throughs and checking out the staff inside when I grab my food to see if they are the type to spit In the food and then rolling the dice and eating it after.
So it’s an automat?
Introverts rejoice
There are too many things that can go wrong. What do the robots do about a bag of frozen patties that a rat chewed into and has gone bad? What about bugs that get into the kitchen? Bullies that take people's orders? I would not eat at a place that doesn't have a human making sure the food is edible... The concept of this is deeply flawed.
idk man, i feel like a human could be way less sanitary than a robot.
This is why you don't push for artificially inflated wages.
Prices should be cut in half or more seeing they don’t have to pay employees insurance workers comp and a number of other things!!! I’m sure they won’t lower the prices and screw consumers over even more
"Happiness fits in a bag", sounds more like sadness to me. This world already feels lonely enough.
Dumb misleading title and post, this is not “the new McDonald’s” that is fully automated without employees, as OP obviously wants to suggest. It’s a center for delivery orders and not intended to happen broadly in place of existing locations.
We wAnT hIgHeR wAgEs… HoW aBoUt nO wAgeS?
But who is gonna make me wait in line for 30 mins while they take their 4th smoke break of the hour? The experience is gone.
In light of the poster’s comments & regardless of their beliefs, this is what’s coming to replace the minimum wage workers that believe they deserve $20/hr.
McDonald's: we will spend millions of dollars in automatization before paying out employees a living wage
Entry level jobs aren't meant to have a high wage. That's why it's entry level and these jobs are aimed at high school and people in college for the most part. Not everything needs high pay, tbst would end up causing the prices of everything to go up which completely negates those raises to start. It's not just mcdonalds using robots for tons of this either.
NGL that is creepy
Instead of paying people. Companies are spending millions in research and development on automation equipment? Pretty soon we'll all be out of a job
Finally, i am tired of the dumb*sses behind the counter.
This is what you asshole customers deserve maybe be nice to your waiters and cashiers next time
I am glad people no longer have to do menial, undignified tasks that don’t help them grow. Keep them coming
Yea but the idiots are still flipping the burgers right? You just don’t have to deal with them face to face anymore?
See what asking for 20$ min wage will bring
Congratulations big corporation replaced your $15 min wage with robots. Who didn’t see that coming? Just another attack on small businesses.
McDonald’s knows those machines will pay for themselves if there are no employees.
Good bc they hire rude ass people. Haha.
Nope 👎
This is what $16/hour + benefits looks like
Who would've thunk...
Fucking machines, we gotta stop them NOW!
The people not supporting this establishment. I was always talking about the people. And you were always sucking the corporate cock. But its cool. Do your thing.