The question to me with McDonald's, and any other restaurant chain that uses drive-thru AI: If your goal is to improve hospitality, why are you using a robot to interact with customers?
Meet Archy IQ - no, we are not new to AOT. In fact, we have been in this AI field for about 8 years. We sold our in-house model to IBM and moved on as it wasn’t good enough for our needs.
As mentioned below, I wanted to hire Google (who uses NVIDIA) to service our AOT 3 years ago and found out today that Google is behind this project.
We are currently in 5 test stores, having processed over 1M transactions with about 90% of orders completed without human escalations. Impressive for a new test
Every McDonald’s in the US is getting their Google Edge Cloud blades installed in anticipation of this rollout.
Archy will not only assist drive-thru orders but act as a master brain to help managers run a better restaurant. It’s like a personal assistant that alerts you to potential bottlenecks or issues. #McDWW26
Meanwhile, I looked at Pizza Hut and LongRange Capital, which is reportedly in talks with Yum to buy the chain. If LongRange does what it says it does, that's a positive for PH. But it's a tough fix.
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This is literally insane
Crumble Cookie just launched a drink that has 186 grams of sugar
- That's almost half a pound of sugar
- Equivalent to 5 cans of Coke
- That’s roughly 19 Krispy Kreme donuts
IN ONE DRINK
This should be illegal. This is more than 5x the American Heart Association’s daily recommended max for added sugar
We need to Make America Healthy Again
I looked into this and if you drink this regularly you can cause extreme harm to yourself
- Rapid weight gain
- Fatty liver disease
- Huge Increased diabetes risk
- Tooth decay and gum disease
- Mood swings
This has to stop
Tough morning for Shake Shack, which lowered its guidance for 2Q same-store sales, revenue and store-level profitability. The company cited "macroeconomic uncertainty" and competition. Its stock is down 8% premarket. $SHAK
Due to an incredible influx of nominations, we’re extending the deadline for the 2026 GRLC Globie Awards!
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As a side note, journalists were not invited to this. But the company did bring in social media influencers, just in case you want to know where we stand these days.
McDonald's just revealed a sweeping new strategy at its Worldwide Convention, called McDonald's Next, that will include menu upgrades, more technology including AI, more influencer marketing and better service. $MCD
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