Great, so now when I order a Big Mac at the drive-thru, I'll get a Filet-o-Fish and be informed that there's nothing wrong with the order.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/27/mcdonalds-enters-strategic-partnership-with-ibm-to-automate-drive-thru-lanes.html
Just over a year and apparently not doing too well. . .
TikTok Is Roasting McDonald’s AI-Powered Drive-Thru --
https://thetakeout.com/tiktok-mcdonalds-menu-ai-drive-thru-order-kiosk-fails-1850119620
There is a potential BENEFIT!!! IBM fu--s up the order and you get two BIG MACS, a double order of fries, two hamburgers and two diet cokes!!!! YIPEE.
I predict that sometime in the next 5 years McDonalds will buy IBM, and will become McIBM.
“Cloud Park down… come again!”
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't serve that"
DO NOT EVER order the McSoylent RA Extra Value Meal
1967 - Picture an IBMer in a white coat sitting at NASA preparing to land a man on the moon. 2001 - Picture an IBMer in a clown suit taking an order for a burger and fries.
How IBM Lost It's Way Example #1763: IBM Forms Strategic Drive Thru Partnership with McDonalds in 2021 Coming up Next IBM Contemplates Development of Ice Cream Machine Paks
Animal parts? That ain’t real food. Just some chemically made rubbish.
So finally IBM returns to its roots - automating the distribution of animal parts for human consumption.
and in 36 months you can read about the unspecified settlement because the technology didn't work as promised...
Who would have ever guessed that the Watson Speech Recognition moonshot would actually be Mac Tonight. Ginni must be so proud it's finally "essential" LMFAO
That's funny I still see those Ibm registers everywhere. Costco uses them and the cashiers usually say they are fast as anything and never break. If you ask me we should have kept making machines like that for the world. It ain't often you see a 20-30 year old piece of tech still not being replaced by some cheap Chinese knockoff nowadays. Hopefully IBMers will get McDonald's points now instead of those useless Blue Points!
Right because my order is always 100% right in the store or the drive-thru.
So its going to be McDonalds Business Machines
What a complete McF**k-up!
CFO Kevin Ozan said that fewer than 100 employees will leave McDonald’s to work for
IBM.
R.I.P. to those 100 once they are officially assimilated into the Bleu.
I will have to follow this... as soon as it is implemented, I will be testing it out... I do not have much hope though!
Here is a True story... I was buying something at Academy with my wife couple weeks ago. When I got to the register (an IBM register, I thought we sold that business), the register started acting up and rebooted, the lady at the register was all embarrassed and said: "Sorry Sir, these are IBM's and they always seem to have issues". I then replied, yeah, I am not surprised... my wife looked at me and started to laugh!!
McD's heard about our inability to perform a simple email server migration, right?
Yes but they have equally big problems with their ice cream machines ... see
https://mcbroken.com
and
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-mcflurry-machines-broken-ftc/
A match made in heaven! Maybe there is a finally a career at McDonald's after IBM lays us all off.
They are in good hands. If there is one thing IBM excels at, its serving up
McD's heard about our inability to perform a simple email server migration, right?