McDonald’s is ending a two-year-old partnership with IBM to test AI’s ability to replace drive-thru workers at more than 100 restaurants, according to Restaurant Business. The world’s largest fast-food company is reportedly pulling the technology later in July.
I’m leaning against a teal lunch counter with the sound of robots whirring behind me, and Steve Ells is telling me about “mise en place.” It’s French culinary lingo for the prep a chef does before cooking, translating to “everything in its place.” But the founder of Chipotle is describing himself, and the decades of…
Amazon’s grocery stores ditched their “Just Walk Out” technology on Tuesday, though it turned out the automated checkout system included 1,000 reviewers in India.
