So I walk into my favorite McDonald's and see these monstrosities taking up half the space in the ordering area. One of the employees asks if I would like to try ordering at one of the "new kiosks" so I'm like "what the hell, sure." All I wanted was a breakfast meal and orange juice. How hard could that be?
Really fucking difficult, it turns out. It took 3 employees roughly 10 minutes trying to figure out where the orange juice was in the system and screwing up along the way. Even if it was working right, this thing would have taken twice as long as giving my order to a person, and pissed me off along the way.
Which is the problem with most of these self service kiosks. All they do is take a person out of the loop and force the customer to figure out some dumb ass ordering system that differs everywhere. Unless I have an irrational fear of talking to a person, there is no real value. I don't care about saving 50 cents on my burger if it takes another minute to order and pissed me off at the same time.
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[–] dontforgetaboutevil 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I'm just shocked people eat at mcdonalds at all. I still can't get over that.
[–] LordRygon [S] ago
I can't help it, I'm addicted. Gotta get my fix on every once in awhile.
[–] EarlPoncho ago
be in the middle of nowhere kansas sometime and it's a godsend
[–] dontforgetaboutevil ago
Ive never been to a town that only had one restaurant and its a mcdonalds. Ive traveled this country back and to many times and that has yet to happen to me.
Worst I ever had to do was some tasty fried chicken from a tiny town convenience store in methhole west texas.
I would pick anything over mcdonalds. Man I would build a fire, spit some roadkill on a stick and rotisserie that possom before eating at mcds.