Customers swarm new ‘McDonald’s of the Future’ in St. Joseph
 

Customers swarm new ‘McDonald’s of the Future’ in St. Joseph

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On Aug. 4, the 6,500-square-foot McDonald's with 100 employees opened in St. Joseph, Missouri, and was overwhelmed with customers. Chris Habiger has been a McDonald’s franchisee for 11 years. For 10 of those years, he has wanted to renovate his high traffic location at 3504 N. Belt Highway. But he didn’t just renovate. He demolished the old building and on Thursday, opened a 6,500-square-foot “McDonald’s of the Future” with a variety of new elements not found at most McDonald’s across the country

Can we please develop ways to order food without requiring all customers to touch all the same surfaces in the restaurant? For ****'s sake.....

One customer dubbed it "the nicest restaurant in St Joe" lulz

IT HAS A TV! IT HAS A TV I CAN TOUCH!

That made me grimace.

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McDonalds of the future will be serving Soylent Green from China.

I am not sure what their hamburger is made of now-but it does not taste like beef.

LMAO

The white trash in this area is AMAZED by touch-screen technology. Success!

Maybe some restaurant of the future future will have people who take your order.

Bill Gates is working on male misquitos for that...

Maybe St. Joe won't be last on the map no more.

Perhaps not dude.

Cut the number of humans needed in half. Just like banks.

Rise of the robots

I'm fine with it. I rarely go into a bank branch but if I need to I like how Chase has streamlined their branches to almost zero people out front. In, out, done.

Sometimes I need to deal with a person. Sometimes not. At MCD-I would guess a robot could do a better job than some of the people I see that work there.

I always use a knuckle when getting a drink out of those touch screen soda dispensers at the movies.

I would bet you get better service at this crack donalds.

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Seriously. I'm no germaphobe by any means. But how many butt scratching troglodytes come through there every day touching the same spot?

Lots of talent in KC

That customer needs to get out more.

Also... I love how they end the segment with dude's quote "Maybe St. Joe won't be last on the map no more."

LMAO... yes, Grammar Man, a new McD's is just what St. Joe needs to propel it to the top! We'll give you a pass for the fact that there's no last place on a map....

ROFL

Yummy

The restaurant of the future is 100% self help.

You show up and cook your own food.

No more $15 an hour employees!!

Looked like that dude had the herp

ROFL
no problem for me.
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I'd like to start a restaurant where you bring your own food, cook it, and then clean up afterwards. I could make a killing.

Jack in the Box has had this shit for five years.

Guess it finally hit the belt.

That is an absolutely hilarious quote.

OCD germ phob, uh?

I read about this in the Atchison Times.

I don't remember the last time I actually ate a meal at McDonald's. Last summer I was in Sacramento visiting my sister, who happened to live right near one at the time. I grabbed a breakfast meal just to see if maybe a big city McD's was better than my rinky dink small town McD's. It was a combo with two of the muffin sandwiches in it and a hunk of potato patty. I was able to eat one of the muffins and then gave the rest to a homeless guy that was sleeping out behind the drive through. That one muffin gave me McQuickShits and McGurglyGuts for the rest of the day.

Went to a TJ's in the Spring of last year in Longmont, Colorado. I plowed through waaaay too much food and enjoyed it.

I get taco johns every friday. I plan on being dead soon.

I don't know if this place is 24 hours but I am debating on running out there really quick.

but yet does one person complain about how computers are taking THEIR jobs?

Take pics if you do because I will have to live vicariously through you. Apparently there aren't any TJ's in California at all.

Well that should be new video then.

If they want to impress me, have the McRib year round

Fed-Ex me some fries, dude.

Now we're going to see videos of black people getting into fights with the kiosk and accusing the machine of being racist.

that would imply computers are smarter than white people..

i mean people...

They all look like they took the bus together from the trailer park and then it's on to Wal-Mart.

Closest one is in Tucson. But it's on the Air Force base.

Ugh. I'd rather just go back to visit CO then go to Tuscon.

It's gonna take more than that to get me to hang out in St Joe.

There's a thing called washing your hands. It's pretty neat!

No comment :facepalm:

You'd clean up...or, not.

On this day, they ventured out and away from their whiskey tango south Belt Wally World, and took in the sights of the north belt version.

I pictured it much like the mutants on Futurama coming up out of the sewers one day a year.

They couldn't of picked any better people to interview

You could call it..."The Kitchen".

I would much rather use a touchscreen to order fast food than I would to have to interact with the individuals working at fast food establishments.

Do you have social anxiety or something?

I think he just prefers to have his order filled correctly...

Dude just double check
Your bag. **** if they forget something half the time
The Manager gives me another free item.

If you eat fast food you have to.

It doesn't matter where, what time, it's A MUST.

Hit something like this in San Fran. Walked in ordered via touch screen, paid with CC, printed reciept with number, grabbed it when called and left. 10x faster than those ordering at the counter.

Yep.

I order Panera on their online ordering system. It's super easy to use and Panera has way more options and possible complications, still a breeze. I just pick up my stuff when I get there and it's ready for me.

There is no reason they couldn't implement something in store for fast food restaurants. My order would be correct more often, it would be faster, and it would probably allow places to lower the cost of their food.

I haven't tried any fast food ordering system like this but I don't eat fast food often. I did get the Starbucks app because they had a free drink offer for signing up. And it was close to my birthday so that was another free drink. It was pretty cool. I used it a few times. I made up my drink on my cell phone at home. By the time I got to the place the drink was either just finished or almost finished.

Really? No old people blocking the line? No mothers with 5 kids being completely oblivious to the rest of the world? No Mexicans trying to put crumpled dollar bills into the dollar sucker upper?

It's true!

2008 was the last time I did McDonalds. And I didn't want to do it then, but my inlaws made the choice.

My kids used to pester me to go to Mcd's when they were little. I told them the food was shit and that they were just used to it, that they had gotten used to getting the same crappy food each time, and that they were more attracted to the notion of McD's than the actual food. So finally I refused to take them for a period of time. I don't know-something like 30 or 90 days. During that time I fed them almost nothing but homemade food. Maybe a few stops at places that had tasty food here and there. When I finally took them to McD's again they were horrified by how shitty it was and couldn't finish their meals. One of them actually said, "The only thing on my burger with any flavor is the pickle...and it's a bad flavor."

ROFL