No More Messed Up Orders | |||||||||||||||||
I know many will argue that this will further outsource human jobs to machines, but humans have had their chances at this job and have failed horribly. Fast food restaurants should be run by machines. You drive up to the order station and instead of a microphone, it's a touch screen. You pick exactly what you want, and how you want it. When you're finished, you receive a receipt with a bar code. Meanwhile, conveyor belts and heating bins are preparing your order inside. When you drive up to the pickup "window" there's there's a door much like the security doors on ATM machines. You scan the bar code; this allows the computer to verify that the order is correct. You then either swipe a debit/credit card or insert cash (much like self checkout at walmart). The door doesn't open until payment is received, at which point you take your correct order and drive away happily. To solve machine breakdowns, you have 1 trained technician there at all times. You also have security cameras monitoring everything inside and out (including license plate numbers) in case something goes wrong.
scn0681, Jul 26 2008
What do you think of this idea or comment? | |||||||||||||||||
Users who liked this idea also liked: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Add your comment
Great idea! As we continue to take human interaction out of our lives and isolate ourselves from others, I think this could be applied many places to make an extra dollar and replace much needed lower class jobs.
As the saying goes, "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool." You seem to assume that the customer, at all times, knows exactly what they want, and is willing to accept responsibility for mistakes which, due to mechanization of processes, will eventually be the customer's fault.
Places like Home Depot have experimented with the idea of allowing customers to be their own clerks. It does work in some cases, but more often than not, someone will fail to understand how the machine works, or have trouble clearing an error because the machine is expecting something to happen that isn't being satisfied.
From my own experiences in retail, the customer definitely does not like being told, "it's your fault," or being held responsible for their mistakes. One thing humans always do better than machines is taking the blame, even when it isn't their fault.