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We finally have some evidence that California's new $20 fast food wage is hurting business
New data shows that foot traffic to California fast-food chains declined in April and May after the…
Grace Dean
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Robots are taking over fast-food kitchens. See how chains are using automation to make chips, salads, burgers, and fries.
On December 12, Sweetgreen opened its second restaurant with an automated kitchen. The Huntington B…
Nancy Luna
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Here are 5 ways fast-food restaurants in California are cutting costs to cover the new minimum wage
California fast-food franchisees say they're desperate to find ways to remain profitable and offset…
Grace Dean
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Meet the typical fast-food worker: a female age 26 with no loyalty to the brand
Fast-food chains employ 3.3 million people. The majority of workers are females who earn about $13 …
Nancy Luna
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I applied to McDonald's and 4 other fast food jobs, but the chatbots and automated process made it impossible for me to get hired
After sending in five job applications, Amanda Claypool says Waffle House was the only human point …
Amanda Claypool
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A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time
Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are…
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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From taking orders to cutting avocados, AI is solving the labor shortage problem for fast-food chains
Artificial intelligence is on the menu in restaurants. Chipotle, McDonald's, and others are using b…
Nancy Luna
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Mary Meisenzahl
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Silicon Valley tried to mass produce fancy marshmallows. It got messy, fast.
Inside the incredible rise and insane fall of a premium snack startup
Adam Rogers
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I tested out Panera's new 'automated' drive-thru and now I think every fast food chain should use it
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Mary Meisenzahl
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I had a fast-food pizza at Pazzi, a fully robotic pizzeria. This is what it was like.
Pazzi is a Paris restaurant where pizzas are made by robotic cooks. James Ware visited to peruse th…
James Ware
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McDonald's is going all in on drive-thru automation as it fights the labor crisis
The chain's early investment in AI will give it a future advantage as drive-thru tech becomes more …
Mary Meisenzahl
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White Castle's burger-flipping robot, Flippy, is getting an upgrade. See how it works.
Flippy's fryers.Miso Robotics
Mary Meisenzahl
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Sweetgreen buys robotic-restaurant chain Spyce as it prepares to go public
The restaurant unicorn said it ultimately plans to have Spyce's automation technology power Sweetgr…
Nancy Luna
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Take a look inside Automat Kitchen, a New Jersey restaurant that only serves food using lockers
Automat Kitchen in Jersey City uses patented food-locker technology to serve diners without the nee…
Grace Dean
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Taco Bell, Chipotle, and other chains pay managers as much as $180,000. Here's what it takes to land a high-earning fast-food job.
Fast-food chains such as Chipotle, Taco Bell and In-N-Out are paying some general managers more tha…
Nancy Luna
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A restaurant owner says raising wages to $15 would solve her labor shortage - but she'd have to hike menu prices. Instead, she's turning to automated drive-thrus.
Shana Gonzales, a Checkers franchisee, said she was struggling to attract staff. Rather than boost …
Grace Dean
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Meet Flippy, White Castle's new robot chef that can fry food and flip burgers
The future of fast food is here, and its name is Flippy.
Irene Jiang
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Subway is giving away 1 million subs to mark the debut of their automated deli slicers in 20,000 stores
Subway, which is up for sale, debuts a new lineup of meat-heavy hero sandwiches such as the half-po…
Nancy Luna
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Checkers & Rally's is rolling out voice-ordering bots to take drive-thru orders at 267 restaurants amid a crippling labor shortage in the industry
The automated voice bots will allow restaurants to redeploy existing workers to "more people-depend…